Social Workers and Community Welfare Workers making a difference

Marked out of 30 - check the criteria in Learning Guide, and below.

1500 words only.*NB: Reference list is not part of the word count.

Essay Assessment 3. Description from the Learning Guide:

What could "Social Workers and Community Welfare Workers making a difference” mean in your chosen field of practice?The field I choose is disability.

You need to complete several tasks:

Research into the literature on social work and community welfare work in your chosen field of practice.

Important: Develop a well-researched and well-synthesised overview of what ‘making a difference’ means in your chosen field of practice.

Researching the chosen field, using practitioner journals is very relevant here. Through a WSU library literature search, there is information to be harnessed about gaps in service, service users needs and what is offered as assistance.e.g. Journals such as: Australian Social Work or Advances;

Develop an overview for your chosen field of where social workers and community workers could 'make a difference' at individual client level and also at creating change in our wider society = at a macro level.

Reflect on and demonstrate a higher order level of understanding of First Nations' ways of knowing, doing and being in social work and welfare practice. Integrate this throughout the paper. (see link above AASW First Nations Whats important for Social Workers)

Important: Consider what you have learnt from the guest lectures, the readings in the learning guide, critical reflections examined in class with your tutor and your peers as well as writing up the summary report of your interview.

Describe your own developing practice framework and reflect on the areas you can now develop further knowing what making a difference can look like. Reflect in your paper your thoughts on how YOU will all your own skills/knowledge/professional values awareness can begin to make a difference in the way you describe above? Yes, you can use "I" in your writing.

Criteria 1: Description of workers' practices in your chosen field of practice that includes an understanding of Aboriginal ways of knowing, doing and being (out of 15)

Exceptional:(up to 15)

Succinct and well informed description of what social workers/community welfare workers do and are doing to reduce and minimise the injustices of social, political, legal, cultural and organisational contexts and systems that impact on people to create and maintain disadvantage in a particular field of practice;

Examples given from your reading;

Identifying what workers could be doing more of to reduce and minimise the injustices of social, political, legal, cultural and organisational contexts and systems that impact on people to create and maintain disadvantage in a particular field of practice;

some analytical critique of current social work / welfare practice given around this focus and/or educational preparation towards being able to take up this focus.

Demonstrate a higher order level of understanding of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander ways of knowing, doing and being in social work and welfare practice, integrated throughout the paper.

Examples from both your reading & experiences.

Criteria 2: Describe your own beginning practice framework. (out of 8 points)

Exceptional

Describe your own beginning personal/professional practice framework that demonstrates a clear understanding of what a framework is; i.e. application of foundational skills, knowledge and values in social work and welfare practice particularly in it's endeavour to minimise disadvantage individually and in society more broadly. Integrate this understanding throughout the essay.

Identify areas for further development and specific strategies for attaining this.

Identify some of the complexity within striving to meet these goals of the profession

Criteria 3: Wide range of exploratory reading identified and referenced.(out of 5 points)

Exceptional

Wide evidence of exploratory reading (10 articles or chapters) and Evidence of access of online material ensure you include material that will be relevant to the next stage of your course experience, that of a professionally supervised placement.

Criteria 4: Structure and written expression within word limit 1500 words (out of 2 points)

Exceptional:

Well structured, well expressed and well referenced. Excellent 'readability'.

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