SOCW 6311/6070 Wk5 Discussions SOCW 6311/6070 Wk5 Discussions Discussion 1: Qualitative Findings and Social Work Interventions Evidence-based social work practice calls for the use of research data to guide the development of social work interventions on the micro, mezzo and/or…
Supporting Language Development in Early Childhood Supporting Language Development in Early Childhood For more than a decade, my fourth-floor office window overlooked the preschool and kindergarten play yard of our university laboratory school. On mild fall and spring mornings, the…
Infectious Disease and Malnutrition Infectious Disease and Malnutrition. Hal’s reaction to the measles is commonplace in developing nations, where a large proportion of the population lives in poverty and many children do not receive routine immunizations. Illnesses such as measles…
Motor Development Discussion Motor Development Discussion TAKE A MOMENT… Observe several 2- to 6-year-olds at play in a neighborhood park, preschool, or child-care center. You will see that an explosion of new motor skills occurs in early childhood, each of…
COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT IN CHILDREN COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT IN CHILDREN One rainy morning, as I observed in our laboratory preschool, Leslie, the children’s teacher, joined me at the back of the room. “Preschoolers’ minds are such a blend of logic, fantasy, and…
Piaget’s three-mountains problem. Piaget’s three-mountains problem. Each mountain is distinguished by its color and by its summit. One has a red cross, another a small house, and the third a snow-capped peak. Children at the preoperational stage respond egocentrically. They…
SOCW 6051/6200 Assignment 1&2 SOCW 6051/6200 Assignment 1&2 Assignment 1: Eating Disorders Cultures idealizing thinness, pressure from peers to fit in, and constant images of bodily perfection shown by mass media, along with additional physiological and psychological factors, can combine…
SOCW6051 Assignment2: Multiracial Discrimination SOCW6051 Assignment2: Multiracial Discrimination Dalmage (2013) writes, “Parents and teachers should be aware of the unique forms of discrimination faced by multiracial children and the White supremacist system in which discrimination flourishes” (p. 101). As social…
Assessment of Anxiety and Obsessive-Compulsive Disorders Discussion 1: Assessment of Anxiety and Obsessive-Compulsive Disorders A client’s description of symptoms and the observations of the clinical social worker are not always reliable when determining a diagnosis for an anxiety disorder. Therefore,…
The Impact of Social Policy The Impact of Social Policy Pranab Chatterjee and Diwakar Vadapalli ‘”I·-\ere is increasing recognition today that social policies and programs should be carefully evaluated to determine whether they do, in fact, meet their stated objectives.…