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This is a 6 page paper that provides an overview of social work in rural areas. The challenges presented by the community of Tombstone, Arizona to effective social work are explored. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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listed below. Citation styles constantly change, and these examples may not contain the most recent updates. Rural Social Work in Tombstone, Arizona , 2/2011 VISIT
/aftersale.htm--properly! Social workers across the country strive to integrate into the communities where they carry out their practice, learning about the local
culture in order to better serve the needs of the individuals in those communities. However, specialized problems tend to manifest for rural communities. These communities, because of their small populations
and comparatively insular communities, are sometimes impenetrable to social workers and other "outsiders" who must seek to understand not just the individual needs of the people there, but how those
needs intersect with the broader picture of the local culture as a whole. This paper presents the representative example of Tombstone, Arizona as a rural community with needs serviceable by
social workers, which nevertheless presents challenges to social work. This paragraph helps the student to provide an overview of Tombstones history. The town of Tombstone is for many people somewhat
legendary. Its very name evokes memories and images of the Old West, and all of the Romanticized notions typically associated therewith. During the period of Americas westward expansion, Tombstone was
first settled and became something of a mining boomtown, with businesses and residences cropping up at unheard of rates by individuals hoping to capitalized upon the economy-stimulating riches derived through
mining. Over time, however, the town came to be increasingly deserted, with the end result that the lasting reputation of Tombstone is as a town at the edge of the
Western frontier, and as the site of various stories of American historical legend, such as the Gunfight at the OK Corral. Not surprisingly, much of the towns revenue today is
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