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Assignment:

• Roles that human service professionals acquire (social worker, case manager, etc.)
• Models of disability (functional limitation, psychosocial, etc.), and how commonly they are used
• Philosophies of welfare (capital, means-tested, etc.)
• The difference between Social Darwinism and victim-blaming, and how these approaches inform social policy
• Recent developments in the treatment of people with mental illness, and the unintended consequences of reform
• The views of Hobbes, Locke, and Rousseau on human nature
• Theories related to how immigrants assimilate to cultures they are moving to
• Attitudes and values related to human services professionals, (patience, empathy, self-awareness, etc.)
• Social welfare programs and policies (Social Security, TANF, Medicare, Medicaid, etc.)
• The differences between internal and external barriers
• Ideas related to multicausality
• The various types of intervention strategies (direct-service, systems-change, direct-service and systems-change together)
• Determining the success of a worker/client encounter
• Factors related to the causes of homelessness
• Effective ways to change social attitudes* Legal and ethical issues related to the human services worker and client (negotiating contracts, removing barriers for students with disabilities, etc.)
• The role of privacy in the worker/client relationship
• What it means for treatment to be mandated
• The use of subtle manipulation
• The role of ethics, values, and self-determination
• How federal law addresses discrimination and prejudice
• Biopsychosocial factors related to social problems
• Differences between various attitudes and values of the human services worker
• The principle of multicausality and its application to social problems
• Ethical issues associated with mandated treatment