Menu SOCW 6351: Social Policy, Welfare, and Change Back to Blackboard Syllabus Course Calendar Course Overview Course Information Resource List Week 1 Week 2 Week 3 Week 4 Week 5 Week 6 Week 7 Week 8 Week 9 Week 10 Week 11 Student Support Walden Links Guidelines and Policies Back to Blackboard Help Close-up of a mans face with his wife in the background out of focus. Week 3: Analyzing Social Problems and Social Policy The skills you implement in order to address a social problem might seem obvious when you are working on a problem one client is facing. How do you transfer those skills to address a problem that faces an entire population? In your analysis of the problem and of potential policy solutions, how do you account for the variety of ways in which this problem might be affecting families, groups, and communities within that population? You must have an in-depth understanding of the social problem. Then, as a social worker, you must ask: Which individuals will the policy help? How much will it help them? Whom might the policy harm, and how much will it harm them? Asking these questions when analyzing social policy can help to ensure that the policies you inform do not add to the existing social problems. This week, you analyze social problems presented in the social work case studies in order to develop approaches to addressing these social problems. You also examine the prevalence of a social problem that interests you. Learning Objectives Students will: Analyze the impact of social policies on social agencies and social work practice with clients Apply approaches to address social problems through social policy in social work case studies Analyze steps to ensure that the social work profession defines problems that represent oppressed and marginalized groups Analyze a social problem Analyze theories that support a social problem Analyze approaches scholars and policy analysts use to address a social problem Learning Resources Required Readings Plummer, S.-B., Makris, S., & Brocksen, S. (Eds.). (2014). Social work case studies: Foundation year. Baltimore: MD: Laureate International Universities Publishing. [Vital Source e-reader]. “Social Work Policy: Benefit Administration and Provision” (pp. 7576) “Working with Immigrants and Refugees: The Case of Luisa” (pp. 7980) Popple, P. R., & Leighninger, L. (2019). The policy-based profession: An introduction to social welfare policy analysis for social workers (7th ed.). Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson Education. Chapter 3, Social Welfare Policy Analysis (pp. 33-53) Chapter 5, Social/Economic Analysis (pp. 76-94) Center on Budget and Policy Priorities. (2011). Policy basics: Introduction to the federal budget process. Retrieved from www.cbpp.org/files/3-7-03bud.pdf
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