Introduction The human service profession involves addressing the needs of clients from different backgrounds. Human service professionals are often required to interact closely with their clients to understand their needs and address them appropriately. Ethics are essential elements in the human service profession to guide service providers in executing their...
Bachman, Jerald G., et al. “Transitions in Drug Use during Late Adolescence and Young Adulthood.” Transitions through Adolescence: Interpersonal Domains and Context, edited by Julia A. Graber, Jeanne Brooks-Gunn and Anne C. Petersen, Psychology Press, 2018, pp. 111-140. The lead author of the resource is a professor at the University...
Introduction It is significant to mention that the topic of abortion is controversial, which is why there are discussions in society about the prohibition of abortion to preserve the life of babies. Thus, supporters of the anti-abortion movement try to restrict the practice of abortion. However, there is another concept...
Why It Is a Logical Problem The logical problem of evil is the question of the presence of inconsistencies that exist between the existence of God and evil. The argument is that God is omnipresent, supremely good, and does not like evil. The Almighty is omniscient and omnipotent; hence, He...
Introduction Organ donation has been widely practiced in the healthcare industry recently in an attempt to help diseased people or even save them. The transplantation procedure is “a surgical operation where a damaged or nonfunctional organ in the human body is removed and replaced with a new one” (Choudhury, 2021,...
Introduction Bullying is any systematic, intentional act of aggression or hostility that inflicts harm upon another person. It can include physical violence, verbal attacks, and isolation; these bullying forms may be different, but the consequences are almost the same. Some key bullying effects include social exclusion by the bullying victim,...
Collect Gender Identity Crisis and pandemics are placing increasingly stringent demands on equity and sustainable development. It is important to start studying this topic by collecting information in four main areas: social media, the internet, the library, and the local community. Social networks help to identify trends, social movements, and...
Introduction Arguments are an essential basis of a person’s, group’s, or organization’s position on a particular issue. However, in some cases, one may use incorrect arguments to make persuasion stronger than it really is. In such cases, the arguments are fallacies, and they may be intentional for manipulation or unintentional...
Problem-solving and broken window policing is the ability to know and define an issue by discovering the cause and source of a certain problem. By having the ability to identify, prioritize, and select many other alternatives for a solution to that problem and looking for the most appropriate ways of...
The topic of social closure has always been critical, though it is not widely discussed with any specific purpose. People of different ages, nationalities, gender, and professions face this issue. Everybody has their interpretation of the meaning of this term. However, it would be perfect to mention the generally accepted...
Introduction In recent decades, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) individuals have risen to prominence in Canadian and international politics and legislation. Whereas the prejudice against LGBT persons exists in numerous places, significant progress toward conventional social approval and systematic legal equality has happened recently. Indeed, ‘gay rights’ is...
Over the last few decades, people’s means and styles of communication have changed dramatically. Nowadays, communications mediated through computers and phones have become one of the essential ways to exchange information. It has certain advantages that will be mentioned further. However, it can affect and even harm interpersonal communication in...
Various theories explain how gender influences the language of communication. According to researchers, there is a significant difference between how the language is used by men and women in terms of their feelings and perceptions. Supposedly, the language of communication is utilized differently depending on the individual’s gender. This article...
Such concepts as race, ethnicity, gender, and sexuality are pretty subjective and have social biases and prerequisites for shaping people’s minds and standpoints in a negative way. Evidently, there is no evidence that these notions have a reasonable basis for distinguishing and labeling them. Human beings dubbed as a black-related...
While the ideas of gender equality and women’s rights is not new to society, such movements have acquired a particular degree of importance by the present. Indeed, as far back as in the 19th century, women began to rise against centuries of systemic oppression, preventing them from rightfully taking an...
Introduction The service I would like to provide in Bangladesh is a digital literacy training program for rural communities. I would choose a rural location with a small number of Internet users and conduct education sessions for the population to improve their digital literacy. In particular, I plan to expose...
The likelihood of paternalism justification for a utilitarian dramatically depends on the type of paternalism. According to the definition of utilitarianism provided by Britannica (Duignan & West, 2021), it implies assessing actions based on their results for the person taking the actions and others affected by these actions. If the...
Establishing a contract with a customer may be a challenging task for a social worker, as their line of work often relies on complex communication skills. For this reading diary, I studied the chapter on contracting skills by Lawrence Schulman. This topic is highly important to me since it is...
The main idea of the first chapter titled An International Approach to Helping concerns the fact that social work is a mediator between the client and social surroundings and systems that are important to him. The topic’s main idea relates to the social work profession since it provides the students...
Background Individuals frequently tend to avoid conflict emergence at all costs to isolate themselves from the duty of resolving such situations in the future. However, it is of paramount importance to realize that the existence of conflicts serves as an integral constituent of a democratic society that facilitates changes and...
Learned helplessness is a state of an individual in which a person does not attempt to improve his condition, although he has such an opportunity. It is characterized by passivity, depression, depression, refusal to act. This phenomenon occurs when a person makes several unsuccessful attempts to deal with a problem....
Introduction The government campaigns are designed to address specific issues and contribute to their tackling. Furthermore, they can be related to gender discrimination, migration, educational problems, and in the modern world, mainly to global epidemics. The campaigns tend to be different in each country since they are created for people...
Excessive drinking is considered a deviant act that is not encouraged by the majority of the communities across the globe. The deviant and disruptive behavior associated with the huge consumption of alcohol may harm not only the person who is under the influence but other people too. People who participate...
Introduction In every professional sphere, it is necessary to demonstrate skills and knowledge corresponding to the standards of this particular practice. In the field of social work, these requirements are presented in the form of nine competencies adopted by the Council of Social Work Education (CSWE). These standards cover different...
Introduction Substance use is the world’s most pressing problem. World society at the turn of the millennium faced a new reality when dangerous addictions, which primarily gripped the young population, began to progress rapidly, increasingly shifting from the medical to the social sphere. Modern medicine has developed a drug testing...
The text that was selected for the assignment is “You’ve got to find what you love” by Steve Jobs. Steven Paul Jobs, the chief executive officer (CEO), chairman, and co-founder of Apple Inc., was an American serial entrepreneur, product designer, investor, and media mogul. In addition to founding the company...
Workplace violence in healthcare is a recognized hazard in the industry. WPV in the US has been on the rise in recent decades. It is estimated that between 70% to 75% of the violence is recorded from the healthcare facilities (Mento et al. 2020). WPV could come in the form...
Education is a critical process aimed at preparing students for life and being active and productive members of society. Nevertheless, students from varying backgrounds and attending different schools do not receive the same education. There is an educational disparity between social classes, in particular between the affluent and marginalized communities....
In the “Why Facts Don’t Change Our Minds” article, James Clear explores the topic of why people tend to maintain their opinions on a given subject even if shown these are factually wrong. He posits that people need to feel accepted just as much as, and sometimes more than they...
Poverty is one of the key social issues that need to be addressed on a comprehensive level so that multiple disparities and issues causing the increase in poverty rates could be managed. In the U.S., poverty remains a major socioeconomic concern (UluÄź et al. 2). The phenomenon of poverty should...
Ageism is the biased discrimination of an individual or a group due to their age bracket. In most societies, age discrimination is often taken lightly, but it has severe effects as other forms of discrimination like racism and sexism (OHRC, 2019). The media define the roles of society and portray...
Each society has a certain structure, which represents stable patterns of human interaction. In particular, the social structure is determined by what positions people occupy in society, what roles they perform, and how their relations are formed. The basis for building a social structure is social interaction, which describes what...
Summary The interviewee is Betty P Lindley, and she is the founder/executive director of the West Park Cultural Center. This non-profit organization is located in Philadelphia, and the purpose of conducting this project is to verify the feasibility of ethnic and cultural programs developed by this entity and the applicable...
Introduction Many media representations of the elderly reflect unfavorable societal views about aging. Youth is revered and celebrated in North American culture since it is seen as a sign of attractiveness. The elderly are often depicted in comedic works as grouchy or antagonistic. Older people’s jobs seldom represent the variety...
Introduction Company, Vision, Mission, and the Purpose of Existence Job, place, the position are the questions of every young professional interested in a professional career. The choice of a job in a professional field often determines further personal and career development. Nowadays, there are enough professions that require both low...
De Luca, L., Nocentini, A., & Menesini, E. (2019). The teacher’s role in preventing bullying. Frontiers in Psychology, 10, 1830. Web. The authors provide the ways schools can assist educators in handling bullying in school. First, they mention that educators should react in several ways when bullying occurs. They could...
The case of Kitty Genovese is a significant incident that raised many questions in American society, such as morality, duty, indifference to another human being and the Samaritan law. Back in times when the situation had happened, the neighbors were judged for their lack of actions and apathy towards the...
Introduction Immigration practices become more frequent in the modern environment, prompting the occurrence of various ethnic phenomena. The process of racial self-identification is currently considered a prominent research topic that encompasses multiple cultural issues and allows to establish the factors contributing to an individual’s ethnic account of themselves (Mowen and...
The trusting relationship between the client and the counselor is based on honesty and descriptive consent. A person’s attendance and all communications between a patient and a service provider are confidential and are not released without the person’s signed consent. Authorization forms about release information should be available for this...
The drug addiction problem does not only affect those people who actually use illegal substances, but also their families, friends, and other members of the community. The victims of such circumstances are often unable to help themselves; thus, they rely on government representatives to provide the necessary guidelines and conditions....
The Maersk Group may be defined as an integrated transport and logistics corporation that possesses a number of brands, as well as an international leader in the framework of container shipping and ports. Given such a substantial scope of the business, the company is to pay attention to its corporate...
Modernization of educational standards aims at training a competent specialist capable of self-organization, constant formation and development of competitive advantages. Becoming a professional is impossible without the motivation to achieve goals, the ability to prioritize objectives, and the skills to focus on specific tasks. Sometimes it can be difficult to...
The term honor can be used in a variety of ways. Honor is all at once an adjective, a noun, a verb, and a way to address a person in a respectful manner. It encompasses a variety of qualities and values, codes and rules that are considered to be substantial...
Video games long ago came into the life of a modern person, and today it is one of the most popular among all recreation types. This phenomenon can be expounded: virtual reality inclines to offer unlimited capabilities, and developers never stop to enrapture game lovers with renewed products. As known,...
Introduction Personal identity is a factor with which most people struggle their whole lives. For myself and most as I imagine, personal identity is a concept that we are familiar with, since we recognize our character, preferences, personal morality, and other elements which make up an identity. However, it is...
Introduction Frantz Fanon is the author of the highly-praised book “The Wretched of the Earth” which was written in 1961. In this book, the author justifies violence as the main instrument of the third world peoples’ struggle against the colonialists. His radical concept was adopted over the years by such...
The movement you have described is an example of a reformation movement considering the military system. This movement has its origins in a critical incident that is beyond the moral limits of society’s approval. It raises the issue of reforming the military system as a whole and places great emphasis...
Gender equality is frequently overlooked in society, although it might be the key object in economic growth, employment, and social cohesion. The lack of women in managerial positions might be explained by differences between male and female management and various social and economic factors. The essay will analyze the issue...
Introduction In the last studies, I had the opportunity to read and analyze the book “The War for Kindness: Building Empathy in a Fractured World” written by Jamil Zaki. There were many real-life examples included that sometimes it was providing a distractive effect. However, the book was written by a...
Addiction can be described as the inability of an individual to prevent the urge of using drug substances or other activities that cause both physical and psychological harm. It can be classified as a behavioral addiction in cases where an individual develops an inability to withdraw from activities such as...
Social constructionism refers to the notion that the real understanding of individuals is partial, if not fully socially situated. Andersen and Witham (2011) explain that gender can be defined as a social identity that needs contextualization. Gender is socially constructed explains that the community has set standards about how males...
The topic of whether foreigners can immigrate to the US, despite the country being founded by immigrants, remains highly controversial. Some provide justifications for the absence of such a right, while others maintain that it exists. Although both can be defended using a humanistic approach, the permissive position appears more...
Introduction Social problems are societal conditions or issues that vandalize society. One of the crucial impacts of these issues is that they disturb the community’s compatibility, bringing hostility. Racism has become one of the major social problems across the world. It is discrimination or oppression by any particular person, institution,...
History knows hundreds of wars, all of which have significantly contributed to its development. The Cold War can be characterized as the tension between the United States of America (USA) and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) and both powers allies, which was not followed with confrontation (week 12)....
Youth engagement in community policing is a program proposed by law enforcement practitioners as part of a task force created in 2014 by President Barack Obama. This program is aimed at the joint work of the police and young people in order to reduce the criminal situation in the country,...
For over 15 years, Rosa Parks is not with us, but her actions made us speak about her for the whole time when touching a civil rights subject. As people said, this person is one of the most iconic fighters for “colored people” rights. Besides the attempts to change her,...