Social Work Profession

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Introduction

Social justice ensures that every citizen whether indigenous and non-indigenous have choices in their lives. It is grounded by day-to-day realities of life. It involves waking up in house that has water and good sanitation as well as giving children proper education that will help in developing and respecting their future. Social justice entails employment satisfaction and good health. Social justice ensures that the rights of each citizen are distinctive. This means that each citizen has a right to distinct status and culture that helps in strengthening their identity and cultural practices. They have a right to self-determination where indigenous communities have control of their future.

In connection to Adelaide case, the social worker needs to encourage her do things that she enjoyed. Since Adelaide enjoyed painting, the social worker needs to look for avenues that would motivate Adelaide to move back to painting again. She should start socializing with people because this is a good remedy to reduce stress. Adelaide should join a sport club or get involved in church activities where she will be kept busy as she mingles with other people. It is not advisable for Adelaide to keep to herself because she might start getting pressure and later be diagnosed with depression. I would advise Adelaide to get someone who will assist her with the work load at the newspaper agency. This will give her time to relax his mind and engage in activities she enjoys like painting.

Adelaide needs to talk to his children and come to good term with them. This is because they are the closest family she has and they might understand her when she explains her situation. His sons might even volunteer to help her with the newspaper agency. It is also advisable for Adelaide to visit an optician for her eye problem to be corrected because she can cause accident while driving at night. She should not feel Sylvia is a burden because she might help drive her to work and places she wants to go. Since Adelaide is a private person and finds it difficult to discuss her matters with outsides, she should confine this matter to his sons because they will understand if she explains to them. Adelaide needs to stop stressing herself with work because she only needs money to sustain her. She should occasionally take holiday trips to relax her mind. She can also join social groups that will motivate her in her career.Social work profession is a set of government programs that are used to assist citizens and ensure their wellbeing is a priority whether in individualized life or in the society. The social work professions provide help to the poor either in terms of social assistance, provision of housing, and offering social insurance against biological hazards and occupational risks. In USA, social insurance can be understood as the distribution of resources from the wealthy to the poor. Social insurance can be understood as transfer of resources from period’s of employment to ages when a person is unable to work (Reid, 2010). The origin of social work profession is founded on the values of industrial revolution and societal modernization. This is specifically on urbanization and modernization in the ending phase of 19th century. The developments came from the European people who had offered social protection through families, communities and the parish.

Social work profession is developed to resolve social problems. Many people confuse social welfare policy to be the same as social problems but this is not the case. It ought to be understood that not all social problems results into social policies, (Salinger, 2005). Majority of the social work policies are provided with money at levels that are known to be successful. Social work profession must not be taken to be an act of self-sacrifice but it helps the society to survive. It is for this reason that social work assists in supporting a society that may collapse because of pressure from political and economic domains. Policies in social work profession help in ensuring that there is social control especially when in measures of law enforcement and the courts. Social work ensures that the elementary needs of the disadvantaged are met and ensure that there is equal distribution of the resources. Social work profession supports important industries such as agriculture and health care.

Many scholars differentiate between social welfare that is funded through contribution and one that is funded through tax. These two models of funding have joined as employee contribution and state revenues (Salinger, 2005) fund many social insurance. The social insurance that is funded by the government tends to be generous and they are not vulnerable to retrenchment. They are able to cut back when they are less in revenue tax or when a party that is against welfare comes into power.

Before the formation of public modern nation state, private groups such as the churches and the guilds funded much social welfare. Most of these private funded welfare were overtaken in the beginning and partly at the mid of eighteenth century, (Origins of corporate responsibilities) .This was mainly because of urbanization, the formation of political and financial ideas of the 18th century. It is after the end of 18th century did the private sector filled the vacuum and started funding the social welfare. Many countries that have weak welfare states mostly depend in religion and welfare contribution from the church.

Social welfare is a very important program that helps individuals in times of crisis. They mostly provide security in future especially in times of risk of unemployment or when the wages received are not enough to cater for the basic needs. In USA, the social welfares are funded from individual contributions or from the taxpayer’s money (Hepworth, 2010). Before the 18th century the social welfare were mostly funded by private institutions such as churches and the guilds. It was at the elapse of the 18th century did welfare programs become a project of the government.

Social work profession has assisted women’s hunt in looking for liberty, esteem and, distinct self-rights. They did not want to express themselves by requiring having a partner and a family. Women started valuing themselves and pay attention to what they needed instead of being told what they needed (Andersen & Hysock, 2009). Throughout this time, more and more ladies begun establishing together to say that the manner they were taken was not correct , and they had a right to do all things that men could do and sometimes even perform these things better.

This social work profession has brought revolution steering many, especially the teenagers, to challenge the societal rules. Social work profession has brought victory to the Public Rights revolution; others who desire transformation see the period is ready for them to take (Friedan, 2001). The grouping of liberal administration, common economic success, and the constantly existing threat of atomic obliteration marks the 1960s separately from any period that has arisen earlier it, and whereas traditionalism is by no ways dead, tolerance appreciates a prevalent restoration, which assists to enable the environment in which the ‘sexual change takes place (Friedan, 2001). Certainly, Lyndon Johnson was the leading temporary president to recommend birth control, an enormously significant influence in the modifications in American sexual approaches, in the 1960s. The pills offered many women a reasonable method to evade pregnancy. Afore the pill was presented, many women did not search for a long time occupations. Afore, the typical woman would jump out of the work opportunity when they got impregnated and went back in when their baby was at an age.

The social work profession has assisted women fight against the routine violence that shapes their lives. Women have formed organized groups that help in shaping their lives. Through advice from social workers, Women have acknowledged that political demands of many people speak strongly than pleas of few isolated people (Ife, 2001). Politicization of this matter has ensured that people understand violence against women differently. For instance, battering and sexual harassment against women was taken to be a private matter but currently is considered as domination that affects women (Crenshaw). The system of recognizing that was formerly perceived as individual is now recognized as a form of identity for women, gays, lesbians and other groups. The process of identification through social work profession is a source strength and intellectual development.

Social work profession assists Women who are physically assaulted end up in shelters because of the subordination they experience. Most of the women who look for protection are those who are unemployed, underpaid or poor. Shelters serving these women should not only concentrate of the violence cause by the batter, but they should also look into several domination that have put them in shelters. Many women of color are poor and have responsibilities of childcare (Corey, Corey & Callanan, 2011). These burdens have resulted into gender and class oppression. Women of color have many burdens because most of them are unemployed hence cannot seek support from friends and relatives. This analysis shows how intersectionality molds the experience of many women of color. Battering that leads women to shelters, is a manifestation of insubordination.

Social workers advocate for equity in the employment sector because the size of dividend varies across race and class, but men count on excluding women on the most desirable jobs. An average male high school graduate earns more than a female average graduate female working the same hours. The patriarchal dividend at home gives men a right to decide where the family should live and make significant financial decisions. The privilege given to men trump women approval to sex thus marital rape is not a crime. The wages of women have risen for decades, as the wages of men remain stagnant (Valenti, 2001). The wages of women started from a lower base because of discrimination. Even with their improvement, women earning are still low compared to men earnings. Currently women make 40 percent of full time managers. However, their wages are 73 percent of what male managers earn. There are field that are gender segregated such as schoolteachers and social workers. In the year 1980, the percentage of primary school teachers and social workers was 75 and 64 percent respectively. Currently women make 80 and 81 percent of these fields respectively. Research indicates that occupation increase for women, the net pay for those jobs go down.

Social workers are discouraging sexual discrimination because glass ceiling starts remarkably early from the time a woman get into the work force. After women graduate from college and get into the work force, they encounter much discrimination (Weiss, 2003). Companies believe that women are not as competent as men are when it comes to work. A woman receives less salary than a man does even though they have the same education and training. There is no reason to have a salary gap between a man and a woman during their first year in their job. This is because they both have the same qualifications for the job (Salinger, 2005). Women do not show any incapability for accomplishing their jobs, yet they are treated unequally from their male counterparts. This discrimination has gone on for months as a man is paid more and holds top executive jobs simply because he is a man. Even though, this is wrong, this tradition has been practiced since ancient times and both sexes have accepted this way of thinking. There are changes in women positions, in the past few years. However, these changes are positive there is still no equality.

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