Essays and Research Papers on Social Work & Counseling

A 5 page paper which discusses a policy problem as it relates to the benefits received by social service clients in Canada. This problem is also one which effects child welfare. The problem presented is that which involves financial reductions, and inadequacies, in government policy. The paper presents possible solutions to this policy problem. Bibliography lists 8 sources.

7 pages in length. This paper introduces a social services program into a rural school system which previously had no social services system in place. One of the major services of this system will be to help and support through the use of direct, indirect, and prevention services, a program to lower the rate of teen pregnancy. There will ...

This 5 page paper considers the theoretical basis of the use of the genogram in family therapy. The paper looks at the development of the tool by Murray Bowen and the way that it may be used, encompassing the theories of Alfred Adler and Walter Toman. The bibliography cites 4 sources.

This 6 page paper contemplates poverty and why it continues to exist in a world of plenty. U.S. poverty is examined along with policies implemented to eradicate it. Poverty in the U.S. is compared with poverty in developing nations. U.S. and global solutions are each explored. Bibliography lists 4 sources.

The Impact of a Family’s Need to Make More Money: This 5-page essay examines the impacting issues relevant to the familial needs to make more money. By way of two acclaimed literary works, Arthur Miller’s “Death of A Salesman”, and Tillie Olsen’s “I Stand Here Ironing” a myriad of examples are given that expound ...

6 pages. A critical analysis of the African American plight in the early twentieth century shows us of the duality of consciousness in which these people strove to make as one. While trying to identify as Americans on the one hand, on the other hand they encountered the haunting fact that to be black is to be denied full ...

This 5 page paper concludes that economic determinism is the basis of Marxism. Marx and Engels's theories, as spelled out in the Communist Manifesto, are discussed in light of economics. Bibliography lists 1 source.

A 17 page paper which presents an examination of six different articles which discuss aspects of counseling. The articles address youth counseling, marriage counseling, prison counseling, violence counseling and other aspects of counseling. Bibliography lists 6 sources.

A 25 page research paper that examines the field of evaluation. This literature review of program evaluation theory focuses on a particularly intriguing and efficient evaluation method developed by M.Q. Patton – utilization-focused evaluation – and how it can be applied towards understanding what information is required by key informants in order to evaluate ...

Why Can’t We Be Friends?: This 5-page essay discusses the concept of cultural diversity, relevant to such subset issues as gender and ethnicity in relation to populating the new America. Now, fundamental to our social, professional and intellectual experiences can cultural be diversity avoided? Bibliography lists 4 sources. SNWhycnt.doc

A 5 page paper which discusses aspects of child welfare. The issues addressed include an explanation of child welfare, why one would become interested in pursuing the field in terms of a career, the qualities that make a good child welfare worker, areas of concern in the field, and what the long and short term goals of a child ...

An 11 page paper which discusses the welfare system of Texas. The paper presents an examination of various approaches to reform, arguing that such attention does not address the problem of providing adequate services, in a sensible fashion, to clients. The paper also offers possible solutions to this particular problem, discussing such approaches as privatization and single application perspectives. Bibliography ...

Marshall McLuhan – Renaissance Man?:This 7-page essay discusses this legendary Canadian dubbed “the Media Prophet.” In addition, his core ideologies relevant to various electronic media and his overall contributions are examined. Misunderstood and disliked in his own time, he now seems idolized for all the wrong reasons. Bibliography lists 4 sources. SNMarshm.doc

This 6 page report discusses two of the “founding fathers” of modern sociology and compares and contrasts several of their best known ideas. A student of modern Western civilization must ask themself what combination of factors and circumstance resulted in today’s world and which of those are universal or determinants of significance and value. Both Durkheim and Weber expressed their unique perspectives ...

A 17 page review of a series of lectures presented in 1968. This paper summarizes the main points of this series lecture by lecture emphasizing the interconnection between sociology, all its related subclassifications, and other disciplines. No additional sources are listed.

An 18 page paper which summarizes 3 separate textbooks which analyze fully restorative programs as they relate to the field of justice. The books summarized are "Restorative Juvenile Justice" by Gordon Bazemore and Lode Walgrave, "Victim Meets Offender: The Impact of Restorative Justice and Mediation" by Mark Umbreit, and "Family Group Conferencing: New Directions in Community-Centered Child and Family ...

5 pages. The family unit, once a safe haven for well-balanced, mentally healthy children, is now a defragmented, dysfunctional group of people who do not know how to communicate with one another. The dissolution of family values, along with the necessity for both parents to work, has created a massive void where a stable home life used to ...

A 5 page paper which discusses some basic theories and perceptions presented by Karl Marx. The paper addresses means and relations of production, the bourgeois and the proletariat, dialectic method, and other elements. Bibliography lists 4 sources.

This 5 page paper provides an overview on cloning, focusing on the negative ramifications, biologically, socially, and politically. Positive and negative aspects are discussed, but the paper concludes that human cloning can potentially do more harm than good. Bibliography lists 5 sources.

A 5 page paper which defines different types of social action and types of authority. Bibliography lists 7 sources.

8 pages in length. Caring for the elderly is not merely tending to their physical needs when they are no longer able to do so for themselves. Rather, caring for the elderly encompasses a broad spectrum of applications that not only include physical but also mental, emotional and spiritual elements so often taken ...

Sociology is a science that studies people: what makes them tick, the patterns of their behavior and how the individual fits within the schema of society. This 5 page paper explores the definition and value of sociology. Bibliography lists 5 sources.

It is the role of the counselor to support and empower clients in problem-solving endeavors that may be viewed as reparative. This 5 page paper addresses the problem of ethical differences between the counselor and the client wishing to have an abortion and argues hat the ethical dilemma of the counselor may be resolved through an understanding and use ...

A 5 page paper which compares and contrasts theories on the development of industrial capitalism as presented by Karl Marx and Max Weber. Bibliography lists 4 sources.

A 55 page research paper that examines the current needs of young people in the UK balanced against how social services are meeting those needs. The writer argues that there is a serious mismatch between services and needs due to the punitive approach that public policy takes toward the young people on the lowest rungs ...