Problem:
1. Provide an example of how change occurs within your field placement agency at the various levels of service. What is the role of the social worker as a change agent? Explain the effectiveness of the change process you have witnessed at the agency. Need Assignment Help?
2. Identify the five approaches to change listed in the text Netting, E. F., Kettner, M. P., McMurtry, L. S., & Thomas, L. M. (2023) Social work macro practice ?(7th ed.). Pearson. ISBN-13: 9780135868386 and give an example of each that you have encountered.
3. Can you demonstrate professional demeanor and go underground? What ethical considerations are involved in going underground?
4. How might your clients' cultural beliefs about seeking help, especially from those different from themselves, affect your ability to engage with them?
5. In two hundred fifty words, make a reflection about describing an experience in which you recognized having a stereotypical or biased assumption about a client you were working with. Include the following in your reflection:
Explain how your client's family's cultural beliefs about seeking help, especially from those different from themselves, might affect your ability to engage with them.
Identify one multicultural group and provide three points of knowledge that will be helpful to a social worker to know before engaging with clients and how to utilize that knowledge during your interactions.
Describe how the experience would be handled and how the interaction would be improved if encountered again with another client.
6. Find a social policy issue in your community, city or state. In five hundred words, address the following:
The political, ethical and economic concerns of the issue.
Name three-to-five organizations that should be responsible for sponsoring the change and who should have ultimate authority of the change decisions.
Include a minimum of two scholarly peer-reviewed sources (within the last 5 years).