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Question: Involving residents is a feature of the New Deal for Communities approach. Discuss the advantages and the challenges of involving local people in the running of community health projects. TMA 04

Answer: Where and how we live can greatly impact on our opportunities in life. People living in deprived areas have their quality of life severely restricted by \'postcode poverty\' which comprises a host of limiting factors such as poor job prospects, high crime levels, educational under-achievement, poor housing and poor health. In 2001, the government produced a new strategic action plan called \'A New.....(short extract) to download the full answer, please Sign in or Register then make a payment or submit an essay

Question: Providing care in people\'s home can be challenging both to home care workers and to service users. Discuss how the sensitivities of home care situations can be managed by skilled home care workers. TMA 02

Answer: According to Townsend, care in a home setting was traditionally being provided by family, close friends and neighbours.( Unit 1, p46-47) However, more people now receive care in their own home from home care workers (HCW). Having someone unknown coming into your home to give personal and sometimes intimate care can be extremely awkward, frightening and depersonalising. And when the workplace is so.....(short extract) to download the full answer, please Sign in or Register then make a payment or submit an essay

Question: Evaluate the social hand washing technique and analyse its application within a practice setting you have experienced using the Gibbs’ (1988) model of reflection.

Answer: During the course of this piece of work, it is my intention to evaluate the social hand washing technique and analyse its application within a practice setting using the Gibbs’ (1988) model of reflection. In so doing, I would hope not only to discuss the significance of hand washing within the overarching process of infection control, but also comment upon my actual experience.....(short extract) to download the full answer, please Sign in or Register then make a payment or submit an essay

Question: With the use of examples, discuss the value of transitional models for explaining the development of behaviour and emotional difficulties in childhood. TMA 03

Answer: Sometimes children’s behaviour may become challenging and difficult; as a result their development may become disturbed as well as disturbing. Two perspectives have been dominant in explaining disturbed and disturbing behaviour. The first, the medical model, sees disturbed behaviour lying within the child as a disorder with an organic cause. This approach has limitations since there is often no .....(short extract) to download the full answer, please Sign in or Register then make a payment or submit an essay

Question: There is now a huge amount of care-related information on the internet. What are the potential benefits and drawbacks of this to care service users and to care professionals? In answering, draw on what you learned through the investigations and discussions of your team for the K101 project. TMA 05

Answer: There has never been so much information that is so readily available to anyone with computer access. The internet has revolutionised how we live and communicate to a great extent and when it comes to finding out about anything, we \'google\' it. So it seems natural nowadays to look up information on the Internet when we have a health concern before even phoning the doctor for an appointment. Whil.....(short extract) to download the full answer, please Sign in or Register then make a payment or submit an essay

Question: Write an essay answering the following question, using no more than 1000 words. Write an interpretation of Paul Rego’s The Policeman’s Daughter, ensuring that you use all four points of the study diamond.

Answer: In this essay I shall be looking at a painting entitled The Policeman’s Daughter by Paula Rego, a Portuguese artist who was brought up in Lisbon and now resides in London. She is also an associate artist at the National Gallery in London. (Resource Booklet 2. P.31) The Policeman’s Daughter was painted in 1987 on canvas backed paper using the medium of acrylic paint. The size of the painting .....(short extract) to download the full answer, please Sign in or Register then make a payment or submit an essay

Question: Can people still rely on knowledge from experts?

Answer: In recent years with the evolution of the ‘knowledge society’ and technological and communication advances, it seems there has been a shift in the authority of ‘Expert’ knowledge. With the internet and media allowing us more access to diverse sources of knowledge and exposing the often conflicting and competing perspectives within ‘orthodox’ knowledge systems, it poses the question of .....(short extract) to download the full answer, please Sign in or Register then make a payment or submit an essay

Question: ED209 TMA02 year 2011 mark 88 1. What type of research is this? a. An experiment? b. A non-experimental/correlational design? Explain your answer. 2. Do you consider the study to be ecologically valid? Explain you reasons. 3. What are the variables Sharon is measuring? 4. What other variables should she be controlling and why? 5. What issues of consent are there? 6. What other ethics issues are there in the research design and how might these be addressed? 7. Are there reliability issues with this proposed study? How might the researcher deal with these? 8. How should the researcher follow best practise in protecting the data that she gathers? 9. Sharon’s scatterplot is as shown below. The correlation that she finds from using the statistical test is -0.12 and it is not statistically significant. Looking at the scatterplot and considering the test result, discuss what the researcher can conclude about her hypothesis.

Answer: This study has a non-experimental/correlational design. Correlational designs are used to measure the extent to which one variable is related to another but do not to explain what causes certain behaviour. Sharon is looking for a link between her variables and uses a scatterplot and statistical measures to predict how one variable will change in relation to the other, which implies it is a correla.....(short extract) to download the full answer, please Sign in or Register then make a payment or submit an essay

Question: EK310 TMA06 88% Critically consider the argument for and against social work practice being based on research evidence. To what extent might this undermine social workers’ discretion to select and apply theories? Answer with reference to the Department of Health’s guidance on assessing children in need.

Answer: INTRODUCTION In writing critically for the argument for and against social work practice being based on research evidence, there is a need to identify the conceptual entities making up research evidence. It is quite a topic that covers quite a wide range of issues in social work. The essay is approached by examining the nature of research-evidence, the question of what is evidence, its co.....(short extract) to download the full answer, please Sign in or Register then make a payment or submit an essay

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