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Legal aspects of Social Work - SWK106e

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Singapore University of Social Sciences

   

Introduction to Social Work (SWK106e)

   

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SWK106e - The following assignment will test students on the five short modules on the legal aspects of social work. The test is based on the modules but also prescribed reading materials for the topic, and involve a combination of multiple and short answer questions. Some of the question are based on case examples: General knowledge of the legal aspects of social work and their relevance to oppressed and privileged populations, Appreciation of complexity etc are discussed.

Legal aspects of Social Work - SWK106e

   

Singapore University of Social Sciences

   

Introduction to Social Work (SWK106e)

   Added on 2020-03-07

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Social Worker 1Task 1: The foremost thing about social work is that it is all on the social front with which we deal in ourday to day life situations. Working for society helps to develop sound relations between a groupof people. However, in other professions like Banker deals with Finance management of each individual, doctor look after the cure and prevention of disease, lawyers look for having proof of different crime and provide justice but social work uniquely stands out to enhance the relationships between each individual by knowing their problems and providing appropriate solutions by visiting their home and sort out the various problems (Pollack, 2009).The social worker must be aware of different measures of dealing with social problems. He must be familiar with the factors that contribute to the quality of life of this universe. Few factor such as are pure air and water, hygienic provision of food and equal opportunities for job seekers (Pollack, 2009). The social worker should be capable of dealing with the social issues and must have strong networking to sort out the problem by providing the victim with the necessary resources.There is avarious social problem which never let the individual fulfil their goal at first stoke of their efforts. To exemplify social problems, individuals are facing issues related to unemployment, racism, malnutrition and unequal opportunity in their countries. Other examples of social problems are substance abuse, employment discrimination, and child abuse. Some social problem affects the individual directly and indirectly. For instance, the drunk driver becomes the reason of accident that has not chosen the victims of the accident by race or colour but it’s all so randomly (MacEachen, Polzer & Clarke, 2008). The children belong to the familyof abusive parents often becomes the perpetrator of family violence as an adult.
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Social Worker 2The roots of social work lie in various charitable organizations that stand out for helping people who are in need. Earlier social work was volunteer basis only, however, nowadays social work becomes a unique profession whose primary responsibility is to provide a helping hand to peoplein need and making improvements to their environments (MacEachen, Polzer & Clarke, 2008). The social worker has aconcern about both personal and public aspects of individuals.The personal aspects of the human such as moral values, emotions, and problem-solving attitude ofpeople, whereas public aspects such as the neighbourhoods, schools, working conditions, social welfare systems, and political systems that affect each individual. In this way, social workers are able to provide a unique service to the people in need by taking care of their private and public aspects of problems (MacEachen, Polzer & Clarke, 2008). The social worker has made their network circle with different organizations dealing with different professional so that their clientscan easily avail required facilities like financial, medical, education services which help them to improve their present situation of living style. The basic duty of social worker is to provide a clear path out of the problem to their client so that client becomes self sufficient with help of social networking.Task2:Before choosing the field of social work, one must have basic skills to work effectively as a social worker. By human nature, there is always feeling of fear whenever an individual standsagainst some injustice happening around us but there is asocial worker who is full of confidence and power to lead different social issues (Dwyer, 2005). As a student, I am in learning phase but I have different skills like good communication skills, leadership, problem solving, critical thinking, social networking and few of these skills I am trying to learn which are discussed as
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