Working effectively in community services

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Assessment Essays

Question 1 400-500 words

READING:Lloyd, Vera (2014). Community Services Intervention: An Introduction to Direct Practice, Taylor & Francis Group.

Read the attached text and answer the following questions (with references from the text and using your own ideas):

A) Choose two characteristics and provide examples of how these contribute to working effectively in community services.

B) Provide 2-3 examples of your own personal characteristics, and how these will be helpful in your current/future community services work.

C) Provide two examples of the challenges you might face as a community services worker and give examples of strategies to overcome these.

Question 2 300-400 words

READING 1-Taylor, Judy (2015), Working with Communities, Oxford University Press, pp78-82.

READING 2-Muller, L (2016). Preparing to work with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples: Decolonisation for Social Work Practice. In J. Maidment and R. Egan (eds), Skills in Social Work and Welfare: More Than Just Common Sense (pp 84-89). Taylor & Francis Group, 2016.

Read the TWO excerpts/readings and answer the following questions.

Scenario-Imagine that you are working in an aged care residential facility. The name of the facility is Djilba Aged Care and has predominantly Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander residents. You have been asked by your manager to take one of the residents for a full day shopping trip.

Q2-Based on the two readings, provide 3-4 examples of what you would need to take into consideration for the shopping trip. Give a brief explanation to support each example.

Attachment:- Working with Communities.rar

Reference no: EM132656072

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