A framework for understanding human service work

Description/Focus: Essay – A framework for understanding human service work
Value: 60%
Due date: 20 May 2016
Length: 1800 words
Task: In your set text for this subject, Chenoweth and McAuliffe talk about ‘domains’ and ‘fields of practice’. The table below lists these:

Domains of Practice Fields of Practice
• Working with individuals
• Group work
• Social policy
• Working with families and partnerships
• Community work
• Research and evaluation
• Education and training
• The health sector
• Mental health
• Child protection and juvenile justice
• The disability field
• Working with older adults
• Rural and remote practice
• Income security and employment services
• Substance misuse
• Youth work
• Environmental and disaster work

Chenoweth, L. & McAuliffe, D. (2015) The Road to Social Work & Human Service Practice (4th ed.) Victoria: Cengage Learning

Write an essay responding to the following questions:
• Identifies a type of human service agency in a particular field of practice;
• Identifies an agency that employs workers from your discipline and the selected field of practice;
• Discusses the roles of the human service professional from the perspective of the profession that you are studying, in the context of the chosen field of practice;
• Identifies at least one social justice issue in this field of practice;
Highlights some of the potential ethical concerns.
Set text book:
Chenoweth, L. & McAuliffe, D. (2015) The Road to Social Work & Human Service Practice (4th ed). Cengage, Australia.

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