Essays and Research Papers on Social Work

This 4 page paper provides an overview of the Skill Exchange. The Skill Exchange is a program designed to enhance the interactions between retired people and youths by supporting engagement in an exchange of skills: older populations provide job coaching, resume writing, and practical skill development, while youths provide home care support. While ...

A 4 page research paper that discusses the emerging problem of employed, formerly middle class families that fall into homelessness due to their inability to weather a financial crisis. Bibliography lists 5 sources.

This 20 page paper provides an overview of a proposed study on the effect of intimate partner violence (IPV) on women and children. This paper considers the issue of IPV and its prevalence in the United States and then relates a way of studying the impacts on particular populations. Bibliography lists 10 sources. ...

This 2 page paper gives a summary of a chapter cornering the initial stages of engagement with a helping or therapeutic relationship. The summary includes the meaning of engagement and influences that impact on the way it takes place.

A 4 page paper that provides a literature review that is applicable to the situation of a single, undocumented Hispanic mother. Bibliography lists 8 sources.

This 3 page paper discuses the case of an older Hispanic woman who wishes to remarry and is faced with opposition from her adult children. Bibliography lists 6 sources.

A 4 page paper that provides an analysis of the family in the movie, Juno. Using the interactionist perspective, the essay discusses how Juno, the family and others handled this situation. The essay comments on health, sociocultural factors, nutritional and medical issues, how Juno's condition affected the family, Juno's own reaction as well as ...

This 4 page essay offers recommendations concerning how child maltreatment services could be improved, with a particular focus on child protective services (CPS). Bibliography includes 1 source.

This 5 page research paper begins by discussing the ethical dilemma faced by child protective services (CPS) workers relative to false positive and false negative reports of child abuse. Then, the writer addresses 7 discussion issues that address various aspects of CPS. Bibliography lists 3 sources.

A 10 page paper which examines whether or not couples should live together before getting married. Bibliography lists 15 sources.

This 3 page paper weighs out the relative advantages and disadvantages of informal, private, public, and international adoptions. Closed verses open adoptions are discussed as well. Bibliography lists 2 sources.

This 6 page paper presents a grant proposal and then discusses a research proposal. Both topics are relevant to Nurturing Parenting classes that are court-mandated for parents who only speak Spanish. Bibliography lists 11 sources.

This 18-page paper examines the Melrose Senior Center in South Bronx, NY, and HUD Section 202 policy. The main question the paper attempts to answer is whether the policy is socially just, from the point of view of a Melrose Center social worker. Bibliography lists 15 sources.

This 5 page research paper addresses current literature that address the problem of language barrier in social work service delivery. Bibliography lists 8 sources.

This 3 page paper reports on the research of Schreiber and colleagues (2006) and their analyses of the interviews that were conducted with children in connection with the McMartin Preschool child abuse case of 1983. The implications of this research pertaining to interviewing children are discussed. Bibliography lists 2 sources.

This 12 page paper considers how the traditional family has evolved and how communities have adjusted and changed in response. Bibliography lists 10 sources.

This 6 page paper concerning the importance of trusting, caring relationships with the context of the Circle of Courage model and Abraham Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs. Bibliography lists 6 sources.

This 12 page paper discusses various aspects of social work that engaged with and provides services for older adults, Issues discussed include poverty and abuse. Bibliography lists 9 sources.

This 3 page paper reports on and summarizes a study conducted by Judd and Sheffield (2010). The writer reports on the major portions of the article. Bibliography lists 1 source.

A 3 page research paper that discusses evidence-based practice, advocacy and supervisor function and ethics in social work. Bibliography lists 4 sources.

This 6-page paper is a critique on an article concerning a study about child protection work and clinical psychologists in Scotland. Bibliography lists 6 sources.

In a paper of three pages, the author writes a summary of the article called Targeting Unintended Pregnancy in the US. The author of this paper discusses the content of the article and policies concerning teen pregnancy. There is one source cited in this paper.

In a paper of three pages, the author writes about human development. The author of this paper explains how how cultural values and practices, public policies, and political and economic conditions affect human development. There is one source cited in this paper.

This 3 page paper discusses the features of the Houston Coalition for the Homeless (CoC). Bibliography lists 3 sources.

This 5-page paper offers an example of a study plan/proposal for a master's degree program thesis in social work.