Patient is a 51 year old Caucasian female living alone in her own home. The patient has a history and current syntoms of geralized anxity disorder, social phoina and panic attacks, which she takes madications for and sees a psychrist 2-3 times per month in Havasu. Patinets lives with six cats and the house environment is somewhat cluttered. The patinet is orinally from Glendale, CA., has a brother in Palmdale, CA, who is stays in contact with sometimes. Pt has a daughter in Big River, who is not supportive of her, but has three grandchildren who visit her.
Organizational Support Direct care staff often look to their direct supervisors or the organization itself for support to prevent burnout. The staff’s direct supervisor needs to be aware of the individuals employees stress level. This can be done my spending time with the individual while working directly with individuals and also listening and paying attention to what the staff member is saying. Many human service organizations offer very generous paid time off packages to their employees so that the employees have the opportunity to take time off for themselves or their families. While the paid time off package is nice the organizations need to look at other options as well to keep valuable employees and reduce burnout.
The United States joined World War I in April 1917. There were multiple factors that drove the United States into joining the war. Some factors included economic interest, German violations, cultural ties, and for the chance to have a peaceful tomorrow. For the first three years of the war, the United States found it best to remain neutral as it had no need to join. America was focused on Latin America and Asia; thus, it had no interest in European problems.
1. Even with our medical advances, the United States ranks 29th because of lack of health care for some individuals but also the lifestyle Americans have. Another reason is that class statuses correspond with our health outcomes. What I meant about this, is that lower and middle class individuals are exposed to more health threats than higher class. This is the connections between healthy bodies and healthy bank accounts and race/ethnicity.
Question 2 2.1 Describe ways in which having a child with a complex disability or condition can impact on different aspects of families lives. To live with disable child can have deep impact on overall family members. It turns out to be an exclusive shared experience for the families and this may impact on the overall family functioning. While considering the positive impact, this widens the horizons, raising more awareness among family members considering their
I wish to apply for the position of a Supportive Roommate at your reputable organization-Community Living Alternative Services (CLAS). I am a caring and mature professional and an experienced disability support worker for nine years. I have a passion for improving the quality of life of people with developmental disabilities. I have worked with people of different ages and disabilities in different support work settings- group homes, community access services, job and career coaching, as well as life skill coaching. Some of the roles I have played in the above positions include, but not limited to, developing personalised support programs and managing various household and personal care tasks, like cooking for clients, cleaning clients’
As it is change is vital to every organization and at one time or another, change will seem necessary to update practices and traditions for the better. For this reason, the Shilton Model of Advocacy (2010) is in place to offer a suggestion for organizations and mostly, health care organizations on how to enhance their capability to succeed on advocacy issues. According to the model, there are five types of advocacy applicable to an advocacy strategy and they include political, media, professional mobilization, community mobilization and the advocacy from within an organization (Shilton, 2010). From all these types of advocacy, it is observable that an organization’s leadership should always revise their advocacy strategy to ensure that it is in line with the needs, demands, vision and mission of an organization and the people it
Rose and the social worker need to address biological factors in her situation in order to have success in her case. The most important goal is to manage her health, more specifically her asthma. Rose’s father and social worker must work with Rose in order to make sure her asthma gets better than what it currently is. The objective would be to link the father and daughter, if needed, to physicians, transportation, insurance resources, and develop medication compliance, and help manage healthy eating habits. This will minimize the possible occurrence of fatality and emergency room occurrence due to medical complications.
Social welfare Policy Paper: Americans with Disabilities Act As social workers we have the opportunity to work with different populations of people. The population that I have decided to pursue are individuals with mental illness. Legislation can have a major impact on my career as well as the individuals we serve. In this paper I am going to discuss the Americans with Disabilities Act and how it relates to Social work values.
In order to receive social benefit, unemployed people have the duty to participate in activation. The purpose of activation is to improve unemployed person’s ability to get a job. As an corporation with job center, the unemployed person determine the activation program and this person is obliged to adhere the program to preserve the right to benefits. (borger.dk).
Rational for the observations The rational for using these observations retrospectively is to make sense of the whole person Amy’s life history, looking over her notes, why had she not engaged historically? Why the resistance? I wanted to understand how and why this was happening not just respond to the immediate crisis, rehouse and decontaminate her home for the behavioural pattern to be repeated. This method allowed me to explore theories of human growth and development and evaluate them with criticality (Monette et. 2014).
Tasks:2 Make a critical reflection on any two areas of knowledge (knowledge base) in International social work practice. Social workers are often very concerned even when faced with situations that require effective decision-making. To achieve this, more information and knowledge must be obtained so that the quality of decisions taken is the most effective in the best interests of its clients.
Portfolio Part B: Reflection on the overall learning within the module Prior to starting this course the MA Social Work course and the PPSWP module I felt very confident in the aspects of communicating effectively and working with a diverse range of people, and after the reading the professional capabilities framework I believe that I hold the same personal values which is expected of a social worker. The PCF6 talks about the importance of critical reflection and reflective practice explaining that it helps improve accountability, professional development and helps to you understand your own tacit knowledge and gain new knowledge, which improves outcomes and experiences for social workers. (Capabilities within the PCF, 2016) For this reflection
My passion for helping and supporting those whose economic and financial standings have hindered their growth in our society, has driven me towards social work. I feel I have exhausted every possible avenue in my current degree field. Pursuing a master’s in Social Work, will give me the diversity that I need, while aiding me in bringing my dreams of working more in depth with clients, by helping assist them with their individual needs and issues to reality. The Social work field also offers versatility which allows me to work in many dimensions, such as clinical, case management, and many other composites which enables me to help every population. Becoming a social worker gives me other benchmarks in which I can use to evaluate programs,
The career that I am considering as a future possibility is the clinical social worker. Clinical social work is a specialty practice area of social work which focuses on the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of mental illness, emotional, and other behavioral disturbances. These practices can happen individually, in a group and/or in family therapy, which is common treatment styles. Social workers that provide these services are required to be licensed or certified at the clinical level in their state of practice. To become a licensed clinical social worker student who did not earn a bachelors of social work, must complete a traditional masters of a social work program that typically takes two to four years depending on whether a student attends full-time or part-time.
