Social Work Essays

Applications of Psychoanalytic Theory to Social Care Practice
Example essay. Last modified: 18th Nov 2021
Introduction: This essay will explore how psychoanalytic/psychodynamic concepts can be useful in social care practice and evaluate theories of Freud and Jung....

Managing Quality in Health and Social Care
Example essay. Last modified: 13th Oct 2021
Introduction: In this assignment I am going to use a nursing home for elderly residents, both male and female with both dementia and different medical conditions like diabetes, Parkinson’s disease and hypertension. Some of the service users in this nursing home are bed bound while others are mobile or self dependant. It has two floors with 42 bed capacity....

Features of a Professional Assessment in Social Work
Example essay. Last modified: 13th Oct 2021
Introduction: This assignment will focus on addressing the distinctive features of a professional assessment in social work. It will look into the importance of assessment, the assessment process and law and policy which relates to assessment. Finally it will address assessment in practice with regards to two service user groups’ namely older people and mental health....

Advocacy in Social Work
Example essay. Last modified: 13th Oct 2021
Introduction: This reflective report contains my experience and understanding of advocacy and explains the types of advocacy and its methods and models, I will explain the theories and relate it to my practice and finally discuss the strengths and weakness of my area of practice and discuss the conflicts of interest implication up on the service user....

Working Mother Base on Attachment Theory
Example essay. Last modified: 27th Sep 2021
Introduction: This paper raise the question: many mothers are often confronted with the dilemma of choosing between their jobs or careers, and their children, whether they should come back to work after post partum. The attachment theory in this paper was found by John Bowlby....

Cause and Effects of the Rise in Cohabitation
Example essay. Last modified: 27th Sep 2021
Introduction: This essay will seek to examine whether the rise in cohabitation will witness a decline in marriage to a point where marriage is a rare phenomenon. This will entail an analysis of statistical evidence on both cohabitation and marriage and the explanations that have been provided....

Mental Health Policy Thesis Statement
Example essay. Last modified: 20th Sep 2021
Introduction: An abusive, compelling and dominating behaviour in a dating relationship among the teenage youngsters is termed as dating violence. Students susceptible to dating violence suffer greatly in terms of their academic performance, social and extra-curricular activities....

Analysis of Personal Experiences with Power, Privilege and Difference
Example essay. Last modified: 17th Sep 2021
Introduction: The purpose of this assignment is to analyse personal experiences relating to power, privilege and difference. The assignment will then discuss the P.C.S levels of power drawn on by Foucault’s interpretation of power. Together with an understanding of how personal views have changed over the course of this module by reading examples from Peggy McIntosh’s White Privilege....

Social Services Structure and Function
Example essay. Last modified: 8th Sep 2021
Introduction: There are many different structures for different organisations. This essay will explain the current structure of social services and explain the effect of the management structure whilst looking at the main services that main sectors have to offer....

Social Work Interventions and Effective Discharge Planning
Example essay. Last modified: 27th Aug 2021
Introduction: In Australia, many social workers believe that improving the effectiveness of hospital discharge planning and reducing readmission rates are two important issues that are indispensable in the current medical environment. These two interrelated issues reflect the duality of the solution needs to guarantee the effectiveness of successful discharge of hospital patients and address key problem related to the cost of discharge planning....

The Role of Women in Society and the Church
Example essay. Last modified: 24th Aug 2021
Introduction: This essay will discuss the role of women in the church and contentious issues, particularly when the passages such as 1 Timothy 2:11-14, and 1 Corinthians 13:34 talk about women should be silent in church....

Engagement, Assessment, Goal Setting and Contracting for Client Relationship Development
Example essay. Last modified: 23rd Aug 2021
Introduction: Developing a relationship with a client system is an on-going process with many aspects. Client engagement, assessment, goal setting, and contracting are all important mechanisms to client/social worker dynamics. This paper will focus on these four systems and how they have come into play while working with my client at Hebrew Educational Society. ...

Values & Ethics of Social Work Practice
Example essay. Last modified: 17th Aug 2021
Introduction: This paper will begin with a general definition of ethics. It will then look at the ethics and values which underpin social work practice. There will be an assessment of social work values and of their relevance to anti-discriminatory and anti-oppressive practice....

Why is Social Work Important?
Example essay. Last modified: 12th Aug 2021
Introduction: Social work is an important occupation which is very difficult to encapsulate. There are two main aspects of social work practice that distinguish social work from most of other professions....

Vulnerability of Adults with Learning Disabilities
Example essay. Last modified: 12th Aug 2021
Introduction: According to Hayes, (1993) states that, adults with learning disabilities who may have had no choice but to accept the labels ‘dingbat’ or ‘airhead’ to cover the confusion, memory lapses, misread or misunderstood directions, or the dozens of other mean tricks that adult has played on through the years.’...

Task-Centred Practice & Cognitive-Behavioural Therapy use to Support Change in Social Work
Example essay. Last modified: 11th Aug 2021
Introduction: This essay will examine two approaches used to support change in social work today, Task-Centred Practice and Cognitive-Behavioural Therapy, and compare and contrast these two. The essay will achieve this by applying these two interventions to Case Study Two, analysing the advantages and limitations of each method....

Child Death Inquiries & the Implications for Social Work With Children & Families
Example essay. Last modified: 11th Aug 2021
Introduction: The assignment will examine the impact of changing child welfare policy on organisational structures with reference to multi disciplinary teams. This assignment will show reference to critical evaluation and the bias that may precede it....

Anti-oppressive Theory and Practice in Social Work
Example essay. Last modified: 11th Aug 2021
Introduction: Anti-oppressive social work stands as such for a variety of theories and practices that adopt the perspective of social justice. It should thus more appropriately be considered to be a perspective or stance toward practice rather than a practice approach....

Task Centred Approach and The Crisis Intervention Method
Example essay. Last modified: 11th Aug 2021
Introduction: This short study takes up the evaluation and assessment of two social work intervention theories, namely the Task Centred Approach and the Crisis Intervention Method, with special regard to their implications and applications for social work practice....

Analysis Of The RTPI's Code Of Conduct
Example essay. Last modified: 11th Aug 2021
Introduction: The essay analyzes the critical adequacy of Royal Town Planning Institute`s (RTPI) Code of Conduct in other light of ethical concerns which are also an important concerns in planning actions/decisions...

Conflict of Personal and Professional Values in Social Work
Example essay. Last modified: 10th Aug 2021
Introduction: The following assignment will look at values at a professional and personal level, while considering the possible conflicts which could arise within practice, why this can happen and what needs to change....

Exploring The Issue Of Workplace Violence
Example essay. Last modified: 10th Aug 2021
Introduction: The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) defines workplace violence as violent acts directed toward persons at work or on duty. Workplace violence is any physical assault, threatening behavior, or verbal abuse occurring in the work settin...

The Development Of Social Work
Example essay. Last modified: 10th Aug 2021
Introduction: The problems that came about from industrialisation proved there was a severe lack of help for those who truly needed it. No profession already existed to help these people in society, and from that social care gradually came about, progressing into social work as it is today...

What attracts you to the field of social work?
Example essay. Last modified: 10th Aug 2021
Introduction: The first step towards my passion to study social work was formed when I was about four. My parents were unfit to raise my siblings and me, which consequently led to foster care. At age four I had no idea that day would lead me on the path of becoming an effective agent for social work....

Social Work Reflective Essay
Example essay. Last modified: 10th Aug 2021
Introduction: In this essay I will explore my experience of reflection during my practice placement, and in particular in relation to a specific case study. I will start by outlining my practice setting, and the details of the particular case study....