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Examine how economic development and environmentalism can be vehicles for external regulation that threaten the subsistence patterns and way of life of indigenous people.

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Child and Family Case Study

Congratulations! You were selected to move on to the interviews for your dream job in Unit 2. For this stage in the application process, you must create a hypothetical case study for a child and family and document your initial biopsychosocial assessment. In this scenario, you may decide whom the child is living with (such as biological parents, a single parent, a grandparent, another family member, or a foster parent).

For this assignment, please respond to the following:

Subjective and Objective Information

Describe the client demographics (age, sex, gender, race or ethnicity, family composition and history, living situation), reason for referral, presenting problem(s) and a brief description of the agency setting (objective information).
Provide client comments.
For example, child, mother, father, or sister (names) reports or states the following: (subjective information)
Systems Theory Assessment

Analyze how the child in your scenario is impacted from a nature versus nurture standpoint.
Using the ecosystems theory and the person-in-environment framework, please fully explain the presenting problem(s) of the child and the family.
According to multiple systems in the human environment, examine the influences present in the child’s micro, mezzo, and macro system.
Analyze how the child in your scenario is impacted from ecosystems theory.
How do social environment and various systems influence the child’s behavior?
Include positive and negative system influences such as church, school, peers, family members, neighbors, culture, community services, and the media.
Plan

What are your recommendations and intervention strategies for this child and family?
Ethics, Values, and Self-Care Strategies

What challenges could working with this child and family pose for you as a human service professional?
What personal values or self-bias could potentially impact your ability to work effectively with this child and family?
What ethical dilemmas could present themselves in this case study?
What self-care strategies would you practice to respond to the ethical dilemmas, conflicting values, and self-bias?
Assignment Guidelines

Your Assignment should be a 4-6 page expository essay, not including the title and reference pages, and should include the following elements:

Title page: Provide your name, title of Assignment, course and section number, and date
Body: Answer all the questions in complete sentences and paragraphs, using the provided headings as a guideline in your paper
Your responses should reflect professional writing standards using proper tone and language. The writing and writing style should be correct, accurate, and reflect knowledge of human service theories.
Reference page: Sources in APA format
Include a minimum of four scholarly, academic sources, with one of these references being the textbook.
Use Arial or Times New Roman 12-point font, double-spaced, and left aligned
Use standard 1" margins on all sides
Use APA Formatting and Citation style


Please read the following chapter in your text:  Woodside, M. R., & McClam, T. (2018). An introduction to human services. Cengage Learning.

Chapter 4: “Human Services and Ethical Practice”

Chapter 4 will discuss ethical practice and decision making in human services and will examine specific skills needed to address ethical dilemmas and make ethical decisions with diverse populations.

Web Resources

Visit the link below for information on ethics in the human services field:

National Organization for Human Services: Ethical Standards for Human Services Professionals. Retrieved from https://www.nationalhumanservices.org/ethical-standards-for-hs-professionals

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The human service professional serves the needs of patients and families in a healthcare setting by providing crisis counseling. Reflect on a news story that involved crisis. Briefly explain the crisis. Using Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs, analyze your chosen crisis issue for the individual (and the family, if applicable) in one of these specific settings. Determine an appropriate intervention and defend your selection.

In your paper,

Describe a specific crisis involved a person or family.
Apply Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs to the lives impacted by the crisis.
Analyze a crisis-related issue that the in individual is facing/will or may face.
Defend an appropriate crisis intervention strategy.
The Crisis Intervention in Healthcare Settings paper

Must be two to four double-spaced pages in length (not including title and references pages) and formatted
Minimum 2 scholarly sources

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Find an scholarly article addressing the current issue of the aging adults. The aging population has issues such as being a parenting grandparent, depression, elder abuse, exposure to ageism, dementia (and levels of care), what constitutes successful aging, non-traditional and traditional retirement, aging and healthcare costs, and substance abuse in aging.

In your paper,

Summarize the article.
Discuss the service delivery explored in the article.
Examine how human service professionals are addressing the issues identified with the aging population in the article.
Analyze the recommendations for service delivery as outlined in the article.
The Article Review: Current Issues in Aging paper

Must be three to four double-spaced pages in length (not including title and references pages) based on an article from 2011 to present and formatted according to APA Style.
Must include a separate title page with the following:
Title of paper (bold and with a space between the title and the rest of the information)

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Prior to beginning work on this learning activity, Read Chapter 2 in the assigned text and LoPatin-Lummis’ Protesting About Pauperism: Poverty, Politics and Poor Relief in Late-Victorian England, 1870-1900. If you want to dive further, check Loiacono’s A People’s History of Poverty in America in the Recommended Resources section this week.

Historically, poverty has been the impetus for developing a social welfare system and related policies. Beginning in the 11th century, create a timeline of the history and evolution of human services to current time. You are welcome to be as creative as you desire with graphics, and various tools, and so forth. If you have other presentation ideas, then please refer to your instructor to determine if the idea is acceptable.

Create a six- to 10-slide PowerPoint with speaker notes: 

Link to book: https://platform.virdocs.com/r/s/0/doc/266165/

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Argue from a position on the consequences of globalization; pick a combination from the following categories: homogeneity or heterogeneity, strong or weak version. Explain why you have decided on this view and try and give as many examples as possible.

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Please compare and contrast Wallerstein’s world-systems analysis with Marx’s theoretical orientation. Attempt to speculate how Marx would respond to world-systems analysis. Consider what some possible negative and positive effects in line with what Marx argues.

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Discuss the following statement: Disneyland is there to conceal the fact that it is the ‘real’ country, all of ‘real’ America, which is Disneyland (just as prisons are there to conceal the fact that it is the social in its entirety, in its banal omnipresence, which is carceral). For those who have never been to Disneyland, those that have do share your interpretation of it form the sociological lens.

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Discuss the implications of presenting a theoretical orientation that almost exclusively focuses in the non-rational perspective. Does this make theory more or less palatable for students? Could we place theorists in the postmodern category in a theoretical box?  

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develop research-based guidelines for neutral and fair public debates and media coverage, in your role as a consultant, to ensure that voters make up their own minds as free of social influence as possible.

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Utilizing Sociological theories, discuss the impact of gentrification on urban neighborhoods.

Introduction
    Brief statement of the issue
    Analysis of the issue
    Arguments (based on referenced citations) for your argument
    Counter argument(s) to your position (based on referenced citations)
    Conclusion
        With concluding statement

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What is actually existing neoliberalism?