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Assignment: End-of-Life Care and Social Work Practice
The death of an elderly individual may occur in a variety of settings and circumstances. For example, an individual may die painlessly at home surrounded by the support of many loved ones, or an individual may suffer severe pain for months before dying in a health facility with little social support. In addition, it is possible that many health and helping professionals may interact with the dying person and his or her family.

For this Assignment, you consider a social worker's role in end-of-life care. In addition to reading this week's resources, conduct your own research and obtain at least one additional journal article that addresses how a social worker might support clients as they plan end-of-life care.

By Day 7
Submit a 2- to 4-page paper that analyzes the role of the social worker in helping to plan end-of-life care. Include possible consideration of palliative care, euthanasia, hospice care, the living will and advanced directives, and other factors. Research and cite at least one journal article to support your analysis.

Support your Assignment with specific references to the resources. Be sure to provide full APA citations for your references.

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Assignment: Models of Grieving
The death of a loved one is a significant event that everyone experiences. An individual's social environment, including societal and familial cultural factors, may influence how an individual approaches death or grieves the loss of someone else who dies. You can anticipate addressing grief in your social work practice and, therefore, should develop an understanding of the grieving process.

Models of grieving may identify stages through which an individual progresses in response to the death of a loved one; however, these stages do not necessarily occur in lockstep order. People who experience these stages may do so in different order or revisit stages in a circular fashion. Understanding the various ways individuals cope with grief helps you to anticipate their responses and to assist them in managing their grief. Select one model of grieving to address in this assignment.

Addressing the needs of grieving family members can diminish your personal emotional, mental, and physical resources. In addition to developing strategies to assist grieving individuals in crisis, you must develop strategies that support self-care.

In this Assignment, you apply a grieving model to work with families in a hospice environment and suggest strategies for self-care.

By Day 7
Submit a 2- to 4-page paper in which you:

Explain how you, as a social worker, might apply the grieving model you selected to your work with families in a hospice environment.
Explain why you selected to use the grieving model you selected versus other models of grief.
Identify components of the grieving model that you think might be difficult to apply to your social work practice. Explain why you anticipate these challenges.
Identify strategies you might use for your own self care as a social worker dealing with grief counseling. Explain why these strategies might be effective.
Support your Assignment with specific references to the resources. Be sure to provide full APA citations for your references.

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Assignment: Community Resources for Older Individuals
Volunteers and political officials in local communities often campaign to improve conditions and provide services to increase the well-being of individuals and families living in those communities. If you are the parent of young children, you might focus on improving the local school or creating safe places where children can play. If you are an individual in later adulthood or a caregiver for an individual in later adulthood, what community resources might be important to you? For this week's Assignment, you evaluate the resources that your local community provides for its older members.

To prepare for this Assignment, research the resources available in your local community to support the issues and concerns of the older population. Note any gaps in these services and consider what improvements might be made to existing services as well as what services should be added.

By Day 7
Submit a 2- to 4-page paper that includes the following:

A description of the services in your local community that support individuals in later adulthood
An evaluation of the effectiveness of the services you identified
A description of service gaps you identified
An explanation of how to improve existing services
A description of services that should be added, and why
Support your Assignment with specific references to the resources. Be sure to provide full APA citations for your references.

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I need to select an issue for sociological analysis a socio-political conflict of the past in the US which has been resolved or at least abated. There is a list of topics to choose from. Discuss the social, cultural, and historical foundations of this conflict. Take the point of view of how a contemporary person involved in this conflict might explain how this conflict could never be resolved. Clarify the opposing points of view. Describe how the conflict process was expressed.

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INSTRUCTIONS: Choose ONE of the following topics. 1) Critically discuss the claim that ALL aspects of human psychology are subject to cultural variability. 2) Critically discuss the claim that Humans are a cultural species and culture is uniquely human. 3) Critically discuss the claim that the individualism/collectivism cultural dimension affects human psychology. 4) Critically discuss the claim that most research in psychology relies on WEIRD samples and that this has several implications. marking criteria for the essay. looking for: 1. Development of a clear argument 2. A clear structure that guides the reader towards an answer to the question set 3. The use of appropriate evidence 4. Evidence of independent reading (i.e., beyond the recommended reading) 5. Critical analysis of relevant research 6. Synthesis of relevant topics across (and beyond) the unit

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Explore one way in which Indigenous society adjusted over time in response to the imposition of western knowledge systems in an Indigenous Country in Australia? Choose one (1) Indigenous Country to investigate. Your scholarly response must include discussion related to both traditional and contemporary cultural practices on the Country you chose.

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The Relationship Between Diversity and Cultural Intelligence Programs and Organizational Leaders: Does It Improve Leadership Inside Work Environments or Not?

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INTRODUCTION TO SOCIOLOGY EXTRA CREDIT ESSAY Due to the significant social progress that has been made over the past several decades, many citizens and commentators have made the argument that various forms of inequality are largely a thing of the past. For example, many believed that the election of Barack Obama in 2008 to the highest office in the United States marked the beginning of a “post-race America” in which people of different racial and ethnic groups enjoy equal opportunities. Others point to the rapid expansion of women’s rights as evidence that men and women hold equal standing in society today. Still others argue that in a class-based economic system such as ours, every citizen has the opportunity to achieve the American dream, and those who are not able to support themselves and their families are personally responsible for their economic disadvantage. For this assignment, please respond to the argument that social inequality has largely been eliminated in contemporary American society. Choose ONE dimension that we covered in the course (class, race, or gender) and make a case for or against continues inequality. You should support your argument with material covered in the course, including lecture, reading, and videos when applicable. No outside research is necessary. Your completed essay should be approximately three typed, double spaced pages. For this assignment please discuss gender inequality

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For this assignment, you will write a two-page paper explaining how you would apply the sociological perspectives to explain a social phenomenon. You can get a better idea about how to complete this assignment by looking at the area called, ″Applying the Sociological Perspective,″ in the first lesson. It gives an example by applying the perspectives to Education. Use information from throughout the course to complete the following writing assignment: Use one of the three sociological perspectives (functional, conflict, or symbolic interaction) to explain one of the following social phenomena. • Bureaucracies: Why do we have bureaucracies in the public or private sectors? • Education: Why do we have schools? ˂-------(this is the one i chose) • Illegal Drug Use: Who are more likely to use illegal drugs? What happens to various categories of users? • Poverty: Why does poverty exist? • Prejudice: Why are some people prejudiced against others? • Prisons: Who are more likely to end up in prison and why? • Teen Pregnancy: Which categories of the population are more likely to be involved in teen pregnancy and why? • Wage Gap: Why does the wage gap still exist? • War: Why has the United States been involved in so many wars around the world?

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Part I: Diagnostic Summary and MSE
Provide a diagnostic summary of the client, Carl. Within this summary include:
Identifying Data/Client demographics
Chief complaint/Presenting Problem
Present illness
Past psychiatric illness
Substance use history
Past medical history
Family history
Mental Status Exam (Be professional and concise for all nine areas)
Appearance
Behavior or psychomotor activity
Attitudes toward the interviewer or examiner
Affect and mood
Speech and thought
Perceptual disturbances
Orientation and consciousness
Memory and intelligence
Reliability, judgment, and insight
Part II: Analysis of MSE
After completing Part I of the Assignment, provide an analysis and demonstrate critical thought (supported by references) in your response to the following:

Identify any areas in your MSE that require follow-up data collection.
Explain how using the cross-cutting measure would add to the information gathered.
Do Carl’s answers add to your ability to diagnose him in any specific way? Why or why not?
Would you discuss a possible diagnosis with Carl at time point in time? Why?

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a response in which you address the following:

Identify elements of Dr. Sommers-Flanagan’s suicide risk assessment.
Describe any personal emotional responses you would have to Tommi’s revelations and reflect on reasons you might experience these emotions.
Describe the elements of safety planning that you would put in place as Tommi’s social worker in the first week and in the first months.
Identify a suicide risk assessment tool you would use at future sessions to identify changes in her risk level. Explain why you would use this tool.
Explain any adjustments or enhancements that might be helpful given Tommi’s cultural background. Support your ideas with scholarly resources.

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Think about Anderson's work for the book A place on the corner and answer the questions in paragraph format. Apply the concepts of Henslin to how we learn about the idea of physical place, social place, and psychological place in Andersons work? Does Anderson's grouping of people reflect a social stratification system, as discussed in Henslin's chapter 4? What about the ideas of Simmel or Durkheim in terms of symbolic interactions or the import of a work ethic? Does Anderson's work represent a study of a culture or cultural groups where socialization plays a key role? Discuss how Jelly's represents a society, or a community inside of a larger world, or better yet, a social structure. How do these issues relate to the thesis of Anderson's work?