{"id":105711,"date":"2022-10-30T14:03:55","date_gmt":"2022-10-30T14:03:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/papersspot.com\/blog\/?p=105711"},"modified":"2022-10-30T14:03:55","modified_gmt":"2022-10-30T14:03:55","slug":"discussion-power-in-social-work-practice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/papersspot.com\/blog\/2022\/10\/30\/discussion-power-in-social-work-practice\/","title":{"rendered":"Discussion: Power in Social Work Practice"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Social workers are in the business of empowering people. They are also often faced with power structures that are entrenched and difficult to navigate. Skillful policy practitioners recognize the many kinds of power resources that exist, thus expanding their options in specific situations.<\/p>\n

As a social worker, you will learn various strategies that can create and expand personal networks that might be useful in negotiating your policy practice within an agency. You want your power resources to be recognized as effective ways to get things done, not as\u00a0tools for\u00a0coercion and force.<\/p>\n

For\u00a0this Discussion, you\u00a0will\u00a0identify power resources (including person-to-person, substantive, process, and procedural) that you can use to\u00a0influence decision makers\u00a0and\u00a0secure the adoption of a policy proposal.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

To Prepare:<\/h4>\n
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  • Review Chapter 10 in\u00a0the Jansson\u00a0text. Focus\u00a0on Jansson\u2019s categorization of types of power\u00a0resources in the policy-enacting task.<\/li>\n
  • Review\u00a0the article by Rocha et al. in the Learning Resources this week.<\/li>\n
  • Identify\u00a0a type of power resource you would\u00a0use in your practice and advocacy.<\/li>\n
  • Search for and\u00a0select\u00a0at least one additional scholarly article<\/b>\u00a0(not from the Learning Resources this week)\u00a0related\u00a0to the power resource\u00a0you identified. You will use this article to help explain your selection.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n

    Jansson, B. S. (2018).\u202fBecoming an effective policy advocate: From policy practice to social justice\u00a0<\/i>(8th ed.). Cengage Learning.<\/p>\n

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    • Chapter 10, \u201cDeveloping and Using Power in the Policy-Enacting Task\u201d (pp. 328\u2013371)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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      Post<\/b>\u202fa\u00a0brief\u00a0description of\u00a0why it is important for\u00a0social workers\u00a0to be familiar with power dynamics\u00a0when working with decision makers.\u00a0In your description, address the following:<\/p>\n

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      • Identify\u00a0the\u00a0power resource you\u00a0selected for use in\u00a0your practice and advocacy.<\/li>\n
      • Explain the resource you selected.\n
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        • How does this power resource work to influence decision makers?<\/li>\n
        • Why is this\u00a0power resource more appropriate for your\u00a0approach to\u00a0practice and advocacy than others?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n
        • Describe the ethical issues or concerns in using the type of power resource you selected.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

          Be sure to support your post with specific references to this week\u2019s resources, as well as the additional scholarly article you selected.\u00a0Provide full APA-formatted citations for your references.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

          Social workers are in the business of empowering people. They are also often faced with power structures that are entrenched and difficult to navigate. Skillful policy practitioners recognize the many kinds of power resources that exist, thus expanding their options in specific situations. As a social worker, you will learn various strategies that can create […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-105711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-research-paper-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/papersspot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105711","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/papersspot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/papersspot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/papersspot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/papersspot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105711"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/papersspot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105711\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":105712,"href":"https:\/\/papersspot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105711\/revisions\/105712"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/papersspot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/papersspot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/papersspot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}