In a world full of issues to resolve, deception always comes along. This is why social workers are required to achieve equity. For example, in the incident of how, “a young man (Hayden Christensen) is undergoing surgery experiences intraoperative awareness. He becomes fully alert -- but paralyzed -- and therefore cannot tell his doctors that he is not sedated and is enduring the whole process. Meanwhile, his fiancée (Jessica Alba) wrestles with demons of her own while her husband suffers through
well-being and safety of their workers, but they must also see to it that their mental health concerns are integrated into their occupational health and safety programs. One of the big issues that can threaten workplace safety is substance abuse. Although employers have a role in encouraging their employees to develop a healthy lifestyle, they may not cross the line in pressuring their workers to do so or to discriminate against those who have unhealthy lifestyles. The Canadian Human Rights Act prohibits
late seventies and early eighties, the disease has had attached to it a significant social stigma. This stigma has manifested itself in the form of discrimination, avoidance and fear of people living with AIDS (PLWAs). As a result, the social implications of the disease has been extended from those of other life threatening conditions to the point at which PLWAs are not only faced with a terminal illness but also social isolation and constant discrimination throughout society. Various explanations have
childcare issue within the Canadian public policy context has been raging. Rise in the media attention of the social issue of childcare policy in Canada concentrates on the relationship and coordination among the federal, provincial, and territorial governments in addressing the social issue (Finkel, 20013). According to Lewis Steven of The Star Canada News Agency, childcare is one of the priorities the Canadian Federal Government need to consider when designing its social policies. According to Lewis
My social work practice in the Philippines in child protection primarily uses conventional social work theories. Now that I am exposed to the Canadian perspective that emphasizes on progressive approaches, it occurs to me that the social problem my agency intended to pursue only solved it in its periphery and not the social structures that created and maintained them. Not surprisingly, the same problem twenty years ago was the same struggle being solved now. By maintaining a conservative framework
Strengths and Limitations of Social Work Practice in Colombia: A View from Canadian Social Work Introduction Recently, I have been questioning my practice in order to know if my practice approaches are congruent with the theories, skills, and values used in the Canadian work context, as anti-oppressive practice is promoted consistently by Canadian social workers as a foundation for social work practice. Structural inequalities, discrimination, and oppression are issues of everyday life in Colombia
An Analysis of Social Work Practice in Colombia and Canada Introduction Understanding the complexities of social work practice in two different contexts implies an exhaustive analysis of the disparities and similarities between the cognitive framework, the historical and social associations, and the role of knowledge and expertise in a particular working area. Despite Canada and Colombia belong to the same continent, both countries are immersed in different realities in which Canada is categorized
Critical Social Work practice is an ideological framework that bridges the gap between a dichotomous approach, in which there is struggle between delivering services to the individual or targeting social structures (Salas et al., 2010, p. 91). A practitioner analyzes both the macro and micro levels to determine the best course of action (Hayden, 2016). York University uses critical social work as their framework to avoid a dichotomous practice by presenting an innovative mission statement which
The Canadian Nurses Association’s Code of Ethics for Registered Nurses plays a key role in the life of many individuals in healthcare, whether it is the physician, the nurse, the patient, or other workers in the healthcare environment. The Code of Ethics for Registered Nurses serves as a guide in performing nursing responsibilities as well as the ethical obligations related to the profession, (Canadian Nurses Association, 2008). The purpose of this paper is to recognize the Code of Ethics and how
Assignment Summary This paper attempts to examine York’s School of Social Work’s mission statement and how elements of the critical theory, values and history shape the framework that the school has adopted. The theory consists of six principles that help shape the profession and its core values. Each principle will be studied in detail through the use of history and values that defines what Canada is today, both in and out the profession. However, this paper will also consider the flaws of the critical