Essays on Social Work

When considering decision making process within a social work practice, the automatic assumption is that the decisions are solely made by the social worker. However, this is rarely ever the case as many of decisions made within the decision-making process involve a range of people….

In this essay, we will describe crisis intervention as a theory relevant to social work. We will further understand how this theory is used in social work practice. It is challenging to define crisis as its implications vary from person to person. An individual may…

Social work is mainly concerned with giving back to the society. Through social work, life of individuals is touched and transformed. Professionals involved in the social work are expected to serve all the people, groups and individuals at equal measures. Social workers are expected to…

I am interested in helping the underrepresented population of men and women who struggle with mental illness; social and economic hardship that may prohibit them from fully functioning in society. I work with people that struggle everyday with their disability. Whether they struggle with depression…

Mediation, when used appropriately can reduce costs, opportunity costs and facilitate the maintaining of social relations, addressing some of the weaknesses of the adversarial civil court system. Alternative dispute resolution (ADR) techniques, especially mediation, can provide an avenue for civil disputes which is less cost-intensive…

I summarised my explanation to this as, some people call it ‘Overwork, it’s were bosses intentionally give out so much work to employees that it’s impossible to do inside your rostered hours, you’re then expected under threat of warning or dismissal to give up your…

Impacts of Discrimination Multiracial identity can include individuals who identify as two or more racial identities. Research has been conducted in the past years to understand and prove the negative psychological impacts that are exhibited from discrimination. Due to the discrimination, researchers have suggested individuals…

This literature review will explore childhood exposure to family violence (CEFV) as a social work issue and in particular, it focuses on the intergenerational impact of CEFV on female adults’ attitudes and behaviors towards family violence (FV). The Australian Association of Social Workers (AASW) plays…

Every Social worker’s goal and mission is to improve the values of others’ lives. People in this field focus on empowering those who are living in poverty, Oppression, and are vulnerable. The NASW code of ethics is a code that every social worker must abide…

Misrepresentation of minority groups has historically led to marginalization, violent persecution and genocide. The dominant culture has a responsibility to give a voice to the oppressed allowing their voice to narrate their own story. The particular minority group in question here is that of the…