Now that you have identified characteristics of a tailoring strategy and user-centered design and have implemented them in our website, describe the strategies you used in this report. Write a 2-4 page paper, describing at least two targeting and three tailoring methods that you implemented on your website, why those methods are proven effective, and how they relate to your target audience. This is an individual assignment with each […]

A logic model is a tool that can be used in planning a program. Using a logic model, social workers can systematically analyze a proposed new program and how the various elements involved in a program relate to each other. At the program level, social workers consider the range of problems and needs that members of a particular population present. Furthermore, at the program level, […]

Before you begin your discussion this week prepare by reading Chapter 4 in your textbook. Read the case study located in section 4.12 of your textbook, Case 4: Decoding Public Health Ethics and Inequity in India: A Conditional Cash Incentive Scheme–Janani Suraksha Yojana. View the video summarizing the issues related to public safety and individual rights and providing background for this case. You will respond […]

The NASW Code of Ethics makes a number of statements about social workers’ responsibility to study, use, and engage in research and evaluation. In the past, many social workers had difficulty thinking of themselves as knowledgeable and capable in research, despite completing the required research course in school. Think of yourself as a part of a new breed of social workers. You are completing your […]

Assignments: You will be required to complete four assignments in which you will apply what you have learned. In some cases the assignments will involve use of Internet resources or keeping track of phenomena over time or a field trip. You should allow approximately one week minimum for each assignment. You should ensure that you have access to a digital camera. All assignments must be submitted through Blackboard using […]

Anti-oppressive social work means critically reflecting on your own cultural identities and how the social environment impacts these identities. Acknowledging power and privilege can be uncomfortable; however, with values of multiculturalism and social justice, social workers are committed to engaging in their own personal work and addressing social barriers clients may experience. Social workers view clients from a strengths-based perspective utilizing client strengths to support […]

As helping professionals, employees in the human and social services field want their client to be successful. They try to interview clients to create a social history, set goals, make recommendations, and refer clients. However, things do not always go as planned. As a human and social services professional, it might be necessary to terminate the client relationship for other reasons, such as the client […]

In the 1950s, a radical shift in counseling occurred. Numerous key figures in the fields of family counseling and therapy proposed the view that pervasive mental health problems were not individual problems, as was previously thought, but originated with and were perpetuated by family dynamics. The shift from working with individuals with pervasive or severe mental illness or health concern via individual psychotherapy to working […]

The steps at the heart of single-system (subject) research are part of the everyday practice of social work. Each day social workers implement interventions to meet clients’ needs and monitor results. However, conducting proper single-system (subject) research entails far more than these simple day-to-day practices. Proper single-system research requires a high degree of knowledge and commitment. Social workers must fully understand the purpose of single-system […]

The diversity of Asian Americans is really extraordinary. To get a sense of all this, please reflect upon information in your text.    Now look at this short video about the history and diversity of Asian Americans (Takara, 2011). Were you aware of the diversity of Asian Americans before reflecting upon this information and video? What stereotypical images of Asian Americans can you identify in the […]