Showing posts with label social work. Show all posts
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Monday, April 8, 2013

REFERENCE FRAMEWORK OF SOCIAL WORK


REFERENCE FRAMEWORK OF SOCIAL WORK
I. Knowledge Framework (Body of Knowledge)
Social Work Knowledge is the result of research and practice that have been proven accuracy and truth in providing services social worker using a knowledge-scientific knowledge that has proven the accuracy and validity of social work knowledge divided into 3 groups
a. Knowledge of the client (individual, group, community)
b. Knowledge of the social environment
c. Knowledge related to society and culture
d. Knowledge of professional social work profession
e. Includes knowledge: Self as a social worker (self), profession, intervention
2. Value Framework (Body of Value) Social Work
Value is something that is considered good. Values ​​are beliefs, choices or assumptions about what is good for humans. Social workers in carrying out their duties is always influenced by the values:
a. Personal values ​​of social work
b. Value of the social work profession
c. The value of the client or group
d. Community value
3. Skills Framework (Body of Skills) Social Work
Skill is the ability to use the knowledge and values ​​held by a person is a tool to combine the knowledge skeleton framework of values, to be able to practice in a responsible manner. Skills a person closely associated with the art to practice the theories and values.
Skills - basic skills:
a. Provide basic rescue skills
b. Skills to do the deal
c. Observation skills
d. Communication skills
e. Empathy skills
Tools to improve the skills of social workers:
a. Recording case
b. Supervision
c. Conference handler case
d. Discussion and assessment
e. consultation
XI. PRINCIPLE - PRINCIPLES OF SOCIAL WORK
1. According to Piccard 1979
a. Individualization
b. Purposeful expression on felling
c. Controlled emotional involvement
d. Acceptance
e. Non judmental attitude
f. Self-determination
g. confidentiality
2. Friedlander, 1997
a. the principle of acceptance
b. the principle of Individualization
c. the principle of communication
d. the principle of participation
e. the principle of confidentiality
f. the principle of case work self Awareness

Sunday, April 7, 2013

SOCIAL WORK PRACTICE BASIC SYSTEM


SOCIAL WORK PRACTICE BASIC SYSTEM
1. Implementing System Change (Change Agent System)
Was referring to a group that work to help on the basis of different skills and work with different systems Implementing major change is the person in charge. Implementing change: An aid specifically employed for the purpose of planning to make changes.
2. System Client (Client System)
Clients are referred to bias people: individuals, groups, communities. The client is any person who is expected to receive services from implementing the changes and also ask for help and get involved in the services provided by social workers. Those clients ------- -------- no contract. Client systems can be enlarged in scope or out of the field. System clients are the ones who have given the authority or ask for help in the change effort and engage them. An employment agreement or contract with social workers.
3. Target Systems (The Target System)
It is the people who were targeted for change where change is expected to affect the achievement of goals and help. A social worker works closely with clients to set goals and determine the specific changes the target, so that goals can be achieved. Example: The social worker who helps mentally disturbed wife (client and her husband are unemployed. Sometimes the client and target systems form the same person, for example to change the face of the mother in ways that are used to deal with children.
4. System Activity (The Action System)
Pointing people together social workers attempted to complete tasks and achieve goals change efforts. Intended use of the system activity is to influence people who are still a potential client in order to turn into actual clients.

Friday, April 5, 2013

SOURCE SYSTEM IN SOCIAL WORK


SOURCE SYSTEM IN SOCIAL WORK
Resource is anything that can be used to carry out social functioning.
1. Source by Max Siporin
a. Internal and external sources
1) Source: Internal source is inside the waiter (individual, group, community). Example: intellectual ability, unity, mutual assistance
2) External sources: Source which is beyond the self-maid (individual, group, community). Example: wealth, prestige, livelihood, relatives wealthy, influential friends, the rights guaranteed
b. Sources offisial / formal and non offisial Sources / non-formal
1) Source offisial: formal leaders, organizations that formally represent the community, teachers, social workers, counseling agencies, charities, service providers
2) Sources of non offisial: emotional and social support from relatives, friends, neighbors. Non offisial source is part of the natural source of help
c. Human and non-human sources
1) Human Resources: the people who have the ability and power to be extracted and used to help solve client problems
2) non-human sources: the sources of materials or objects
d. Sources particularistic symbolic, universal concrete and exchange value
1) Source particularistic symbolic: the form of symbols that can not be touched Example: information and social status. Information and social status in the community has a special symbolic meaning and can be used as a resource that can be mined and utilized
2) Sources of concrete universalistic: the form of the real thing and the public. Example: services, concrete objects Sources exchange values: love, money
2. sources according to Allen Pincus and Anne Minahan
a. Informal sources / natural
May include family, friends, neighbors and others who are willing to help, emotional support, love, advice, information, other concrete services
b. Formal Sources
Membership in an organization or a formal association aims to increase interest in their members. Source system can also help members to negotiate and utilize community resources system.
c. System Resources Community
In the form of hospitals, adoption agencies, job training programs, formal service. People in life associated with community source systems, such as schools, child care centers. People are also associated with government agencies and other public services, such as police, recreation,
public libraries etc..

Thursday, April 4, 2013

SOCIAL ISSUES


SOCIAL ISSUES
1. The issue or problem is the difference between das sollen (which should, desired, aspired to, which is expected) with das sein (the real, is happening). In other words the problem is the difference between the ideal and the real, as we are aspiring - envisioned a prosperous society, it happened a lot of people are still poor.
2. According to the Suharto Horton and Leslie (2000), social problems is a condition that many people feel uncomfortable and require solving collective social action.
3. Parillo which are quoted Soetomo (1995:4) in Organizing and Community Development: the four components in understanding the meaning of social problems, namely:
a. Problems that persist for a certain period.
b. Felt can cause a variety of physical or mental harm, both to individuals and society.
c. It is a violation of our values ​​or social standards of one or more aspects of community life.
d. Raises the need for solutions.
Social problems are problems that arise directly or sourced directly from the social conditions and processes include:
a) The first social issue (Primary Social Problem) is a condition that affects the consequences are diverse and manifold for the community.
b) The second social problem (Secondary Social Problem) is a result of adverse conditions in general from the more influential social problems and, in turn, lead to additional social problems.
c) The third Social Problems (Social Problems Tertiary) is a condition that harm directly or indirectly lead to a more dominant.
Social problems faced by Indonesia is quite prominent as follows:
• Poverty
• Unemployment
• Crime
• Delinquency children and adolescents
• Drug abuse
• Pornography, pornographic and prostitution
• Gambling
• Rape
• psychiatric disturbance
• Problems disaster
• neglected children
• Seniors stranded
• The issue of disability
• Poor social security
• Social conflicts
• Social unrest
• Violence against women and children
• The problem of refugees
• Treat HIV / AIDS
• The issue of discrimination and injustice
• Problems slums
• poor condition of public health
• social disharmony
• Decreased social solidarity
• Stress, depression, and suicide
• Disorganization family

Wednesday, April 3, 2013

FOCUS SOCIAL WORK INTERVENTION


FOCUS SOCIAL WORK INTERVENTION
The experts (Max Siporin, Charles Zastrow, Rex A. Skidmore and Milton G. Thackery) states that Social Work is a profession for help, which is intended to help people (both individually and collectively) improve social functioning (social fungtioning). So social functioning is the focus of Social Work.
Social fungtioning viewed from various aspects, namely:
1. Ability to implement social role
Social fungtioning can be seen as a performance / execution expected role as a member of a collectivity. This view has several aspects:
a. Social status
Someone living in the middle - the middle of collectivity (family, group, and community komunitiy) must have social status. Plural social status of a person has more than one social status such as parents, husband, son, and so on.
b. Internasional
Every social status of a person always has a partner (interaction with their partner). Example:
The child's parents
Couple
Head of subordinates
c. Demands or expectations
Each individual's social status is essentially demanding behavior that should be implemented. Demands behavior according to the norms or values ​​which the person is (role expectation). For example, the social status of the parents, it is required to:
• Able to educate children - children
• Able to provide examples
• Socializing, etc..
d. Behavior
Human behavior is influenced by many factors, both factors that is inside / internal and external / external. All these factors are related to each other, interact to form a complex behavior. So, in principle, have the behavior will lead to a cause and effect.
e. Situational
Implementation of role / person's behavior according to its status, always in the context of the situation, meaning that people always behave in the context of social situations. The social situation is the basic unity that allow social interaction.
One way of looking at social situations may be:
1) Conceptual - descriptive depiction:
• What and how the reality - the reality facing
• Tasks and activities that might be undertaken
• What role do
2) Operational - perspective, that picture:
• Guidelines to be followed
• Possible future
• Action - actions that need to be done in the future
Therefore, people in the feel and look also varied situations, among others:
1) Looking at the social situation as a situation that can be trusted. On the contrary, there are people who view the situation can not be trusted.
2) Looking at the social situation as a situation that provides support. But otherwise there are people who see a stressful situation or demand.
3) Looking at the situation as a situation that fosters social and personal identity float. But otherwise there are people who see the situation as threatening situations.
Max Siporin states that there are nine characteristics of the social situation which is said to be a functional situation, namely:
a) The social situation that is structurally adequate, because:
• Provide sufficient materials and labor
• adequate ecological conditions
• Relationships are good and reasonable
b) The situation that is culturally appropriate, because:
• Having the values, norms and sanctions
• Having a moral order
• Having an effective identity
c) Process - a process that is in social situations can be run efficiently and directed to the achievement of goals.
d) The social situation thoroughly buffered seen clearly, consistently, and rellatif stable, although the social situation gives the possibility to make adjustments and changes.
e) The situation provides opportunities, resources, and services needed.
f) the social situation encourages or demands, provide reasonable sanctions and rewards.
g) The social situation is providing benefits or improve identity, self-esteem and awareness of individual and group competency as a whole.
h) The situation has prompted an awareness of the reality - the reality of life that demands that need to be dealt with skills - skills that are possessed.
i) The social situation gives the possibility for members to connect with other people.
2. The ability to meet the needs of
To be able to identify basic human needs, in fact there are some principles that need to be addressed:
a. Human needs in principle plural, meaning human needs are more than one.
b. There are some real human needs is characteristic of its cultural context.
c. System needs of each individual depends on its development. Needs of infants, adolescents, and adults will be different - different.
Types of human needs in general can be seen from the opinion of experts as follows:
1. Neil Gilbert and Harry Specht
Stating that human needs can be grouped into 5 parts:
a. Physical needs
b. Emotional needs
c. Intellectual needs
d. Spiritual needs
e. Social needs
2. Abraham H. Maslow
Divides human needs into five sections, namely:
a. Physicological needs
b. Safety needs
c. Love and belonging needs
d. Esteem needs
e. Self actualization needs
3. NASW and CSWE
Developing the opinion of Maslow's human needs, namely:
a. Need for physical and mental well being
b. Need to know
c. Need for justice
d. Need for economical security
e. Need for self-realization, intimacy and relationship
4. Naomi I. Brill
Stating that human needs, in principle, can be grouped into two groups, namely:
a. The need for security (safety needs)
The need for security cover material requirements that are useful to sustain life, such as food, clothing, housing and non-material needs such as the need to love and be loved, etc..
b. The need accomodate the drive towar Groth (the need to accommodate a boost - a boost that can result in growth)
5. Hepworth and Larsen
Classifying human needs into four, namely:
a. Positive self consept
• Identify
• Self esteem
• Self confidance
b. Emotional
• Feeling needed and valued by others
• Sense of belonging
• Companionship
c. Personal fulfillment
• Education
• Recreation
• Accoplishment
• Esthetic satisfaction
• Religion
d. Phsycal need
• Food, clothing, hausing
• Health care
• Safety
• Protection
3. The ability to solve the social problems experienced by
People in business needs, carry out the task - the task of life and to realize their aspirations is not easy. He was faced with limitations - limitations, obstacles - obstacles and difficulties - difficulties. Man at confront the problems that must be faced.

Tuesday, April 2, 2013

SOCIAL WORK FUNCTIONS


SOCIAL WORK FUNCTIONS
1. Helping people to improve and more effectively use their ability to perform the duties of life and solve their problems.
Tasks that can be implemented Social Worker:
a. Identify and make contact with others who need help in carrying out tasks of life.
b. Provide insight, encouragement and support to people in crisis.
c. Provide an opportunity for people to express the difficulty experienced.
d. Helping people to test a variety of alternative solutions and provide information to help make decisions.
e. Confront people with the reality of their situation by providing information which may disturb the balance of the person to be given further motivation for the change.
f. Teaches skills to help individuals realize their aspirations and life task.

2. Creating pathways preliminary relationships between people with the system to obtain the source.
Tugas2 workable Social Worker:
a. Help identify people who need the source system or the people who are not entitled to a benefit / not able to use it, but do not realize that they are eligible to receive service source system.
b. Provide information about the sources that can be utilized, their right to use it, and explain the procedures that need to be done to take advantage of these resources.
c. Helping people solve practical problems in the use of a specific source.
d. Make referrals to help people to overcome difficulties in the use of resources and the negotiation of a system.
e. Provide information and act as an advocate can provide stimulation to the source system to test the policy community services provided to the group.
f. Helping people to act as a resource for others through the establishment of a new system.
3. Facilitate interaction, change and create new relationships among people with the social system. Tasks that can be performed Social Worker:
a. Providing information to the community to explain the source of system problems that occur as a result of the source system.
b. Acting as a consultant to a community resource and provide recommendations on the various means of service delivery.
c. Consult informal systems to help them obtain services.
d. Linking people into one community source system with other source systems community.
e. Organizing service recipients to become members of the new organization
f. Mediate in solving the problems in the system of informal sources, members of the organization, as well as community source system.
4. Facilitate interaction, change and create new relationships among people with the source system. Tasks to do Social Workers:
a. Distribute information.
b. Being a neutral mediator
c. Helped organize part of a system
d. Acting as a consultant of the members of a system.
e. Teach skills to the members of a system to enable them to carry out the role.
f. Insert a new member into a system.
g. Involving members of the system to hold the disclosure and understanding of the problem.
5. Contribute to change, improvement, and development of social policy legislation. Tasks to do Social Workers:
a. Collect and analyze information on the problems and conditions that may indicate a change in policy need holding and social legislation.
b. Encouraging charity where she works, or other public sources as well as the system of formal organization in order to determine attitudes towards various issues in society.
c. Creating a new system to implement the changes in social policy.
d. Encourage others to become advocates who are directly related to the policy makers to make changes.
e. Prepare services, programs, concepts and proposals for regulatory change policies and create services needed ..
6. Resource leveling in terms of material resources are shared fairly. Tasks that can be performed Social Worker:
a. Determine resource requirements and accuracy and to determine who meets the requirements for using such sources.
b. Forming a new informal sources for a particular person.
c. Determine where the source or requirements to utilize.
d. Provides knowledge and skills to those who will act as a source.
e. Preparing people to use the resources and use resources effectively.
f. Monitor and supervise the use of sources.

7. Acting as executive control. Tasks to do Social Workers:
a. Conducting supervision to the person whose behavior deviates.
b. Investigate reports of neglect or abuse of the practice of those who should receive protection.
c. Licensed to sources that provide facilities to ensure adequate services to those in need.
Social Work Principal function:
   1. Restorative / return or restoration to the original state.
a. Curative / help, heal.
Curative activities include: identification, control, removal or inability to relate to social healing
b. Rehabilitative / recovery to the original state. Rehabilitation activities include efforts to reconstruct and reorganize patterns of interaction that have been damaged and broken or re-establish a new pattern of interaction. Restoring the capacity to return to a healthy state and can be used or restored to a satisfactory condition. Used in the context of helping people who have impaired capacity or not functioning, used in hospitals, homes, clinics, schools, LP, etc.. Rebuilding a new interaction patterns.
   2. Preventive / Prevention: To find the initial, control and eliminate the condition - a condition that causes people to function socially.
   3. Development:
a. Helping people improve their ability to function socially
b. Linking people with the source system.
c. Facilitating interaction with such a system resource.
d. Influencing social policy.
e. Channelling the source - the source material.
f. Providing services as executor of social control.

Monday, April 1, 2013

PURPOSE OF SOCIAL WORK


PURPOSE OF SOCIAL WORK
The purpose of Social Work by Allen Pincus and Anne Minahan as follows:
a. Improving problem-solving and the capacity to overcome
Improving people's ability to perform the duties of life and ability to solve problems Illustrations
b. Connecting people with systems that provide them with resources, services and opportunities
Connecting people with systems that can provide resources, services and opportunities they need
c. Promote the effective operation of the system and the human
Improving the ability of implementation of the system effectively and humanely
d. Contribute to the development and improvement of social policy
Contributing to the change, improvement and development of legislation and social policy
The purpose of Social Work by Dean H. Hepworth and Jo Ann Larsen as follows:
The purpose of Social Work is to promote or restore benefir mutual interaction betwen the individual and the community in order improven quality of life for all people.
The statement indicates that activities to improve or restore the reciprocal interaction between the individual and society is a goal to be achieved, in order to create a high quality of life. Social Workers in achieving these goals should have confidence that:
1) Environment (physical environment, social and organizational) must:
a) Provide opportunities and source - the source for each individual to be able to realize all the potential and aspirations to the fullest.
b) Provide opportunities and resources - the resources to meet the needs of all people and to reduce stress and suffering.
2) Individuals - individuals should contribute or contribute effectively, so as to bring happiness and prosperity to others in the immediate environment to the public.
3) Transactions of individuals with other individuals in the community should be able to increase the recognition that every human being has dignity and individual, unique self-determination.
They further details the purpose of Social Work as follows:
1. Helping people expand their competencies and enhance their ability to confront and solve the problem.
2. Helping people get the source - source
Many people who have little knowledge of the system resources available in the community. Therefore, the Social Worker acting as a broker (middleman) to connect people with existing source systems such as child welfare services, health, mental health, and so on.
3. Creating an organization - an organization that is responsive in providing services to the community.
4. Facilitate interaction among individuals with other individuals in their environment. Quality of life is determined by the quality of their interactions with others in a social context.
5. Affect the interaction between organizations - organizations with agencies - agencies
6. Influencing social policy and environmental policy.

Friday, March 29, 2013

CHARACTERISTICS OF SOCIAL WORK


CHARACTERISTICS OF SOCIAL WORK
Characteristics that distinguish the Social Work profession deng aprofesi are as follows:
a. The focus of Social Work is the people as a whole and the totality, which includes those factors, behavior, and environment.
b. Emphasize the importance of social occupation families in shaping and influencing the behavior of family members.
c. Resource utilization - source community to help solve the problem.
d. The use of the process of supervision can provide advice and guidance for Social Workers who have not experienced that later grew and developed into an experienced Social Worker.
e. Social Work has a unique educational program for integrating the knowledge, values ​​and skills acquired in the classroom with practical experience in the field / community.
f. Traditional Social Work emphasis on three basic processes that case work, group work, community organization.
g. Social Work has a professional body such as the NASW. CSWE, IPPSI
h. Relationship is key in the process of Social Work.
i. Social Work oriented concepts - concepts of psychiatry and more emphasis on understanding people.
j. The term in the Social Work is social fungtioning, social interaction, and malfungtioning.
k. Social Work recognizes that social problems and human behavior are in institutions - social institution human family.
l. Many Social Workers who work on the body - the social body, both government-owned entity, private or private.
m. The most basic goal of Social Workers is to help their clients or communities to help themselves.
n. Since Social Workers are employed in the body - the social body and is paid, then the payment of the client is used for social welfare agencies, not to increase the income of Social Workers.
o. A Social Worker to be more effective in carrying out their duties, they can use and 

Thursday, March 28, 2013

ASSUMPTIONS OF SOCIAL WORK


ASSUMPTIONS OF SOCIAL WORK
To understand more deeply the Social Work it first needs to know the assumptions - assumptions of Social Work are:
a. Social Work with like any other profession has the function to solve problems (problem solving function).
b. Social Work practice is an art that is based on values​​, skills and scientific knowledge.
c. Social Work as a profession emerged and continues to evolve, being able to meet the needs and aspirations are recognized by the community.
d. Implementation of Social Work practice must be adapted to the values ​​of the community in which the practice will be implemented.
e. Scientific knowledge base of Social Work can be grouped into three types: tested, hypothetial, and assumptive knowladge.
f. The knowledge - the knowledge necessary for the practice of Social Work is determined by the goals, functions, and problems faced.
g. Internalization of values ​​- values ​​and professional knowledge is a vital need for professional Social Workers.
h. Skills of the Social Work profession is expressed through activities - activities conducted by professional Social Workers.

Wednesday, March 27, 2013

SOCIAL WORKERS


UNDERSTANDING SOCIAL WORKERS

1. Max Siporin: Social Work is a method of social institutions to help people prevent and solve their problems and to improve and enhance social functioning.
2. Allan Pincus: social work concerned with the problems of the interaction between people with the social environment, so that they are able to carry out tugas2 life, reduce stress, achieve their aspirations and value2.
3. Walter A. Friedlander: Social work is a professional service practice based on the knowledge and skills about human relationships that can help individuals, groups and communities to achieve personal satisfaction and social.
4. Charles Zastrow: professional activities to help individuals, groups and communities to enhance or improve their ability to function socially and to create community conditions that enable them to achieve the goal.
5. Rex Skidmore: Social work aims to improve social functioning either individually or in a group, where the activity is focused on their social relations, particularly the interactions between humans and their environment.
6. Serafika Leonora de Guzman: Social work is a profession that primarily been in the field of social service activities are organized, where the project was to provide facilities and strengthen relationships, particularly in mutual adjustment and mutual benefit between individuals and their social environment through the use of methods social work.

Sunday, March 24, 2013

online programs for social work


Now is the right time to pursue an education in social work. According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, "Employment for social workers is expected to grow faster than average for all occupations through 2018. Job prospects are expected to be favorable, particularly for social workers who specialize in the aging population or work in rural areas. '

More and more people are choosing to pursue a social work degree online because of greater flexibility and affordability of online degrees.

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For those looking for programs distance learning in social work, we have put together the best ranking colleges and universities offer online online Master of Social Work (MSW) and other social work related degree. Our online ranking title is based on several factors, including the school and the program's reputation, student satisfaction, peer and learning quality, and overall affordability.

All online MSW program on our list either accredited by the Council of Social Work Education (CSWE) or official candidate for accreditation. CSWE is a nonprofit national association representing more than 3,000 individual members, as well as undergraduate and graduate professional social work education. Founded in 1952, this partnership of education and professional institutions, social welfare agencies, and citizens recognized by the Council for Higher Education Accreditation as the sole accrediting agency for social work education in the United States.

The program is only open to students living outside the school are considered. Some geographic restrictions may still apply to some programs.

1. University of Southern California
2.  Saint Leo University
3.  Northeastern University
4.  Florida State University
5.  Michigan State University
6.  Fordham University
7.  Texas State University-San Marcos
8.  University of North Dakota

Saturday, March 23, 2013

masters of social work online florida

Florida State University (Tallahassee, FL)

Florida State University College of Social Work was ranked # 44 by U.S. News & World Report in social work, social work department was ranked # 24 by Princeton Review Gourman Report of Graduate Programs. Schools reported its online MSW program is the first of its kind in the country. The Florida State University College of Social Work offers asynchronous instruction that allows students to go online at their convenience. Campus visits are not required.
Online MSW Program includes field placement opportunities. This program takes about two years to complete. The program is guided by the same standards as traditional programs. Master of Social Work Program is available for students who live in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Montana, Nebraska, North Dakota, and South Dakota. Non-citizens can appeal to non-resident tuition waver, which significantly reduces the cost per credit hour.

Article From : http://www.fsu.edu/

Friday, March 22, 2013

masters of social work online california

University of Southern California

USC School of Social Work was ranked as tied for # 11 by U.S. News & World Report in social work, social work department was ranked # 15 by Princeton Review Gourman Report of Graduate Programs. A Master of Social Work program online is a flexible, highly interactive and has academic rigor of the program on campus. Students connect with their peers and faculty through live online classes, chat sessions and study groups.
Students get hands-on training in the field in their local communities. Schools arrange supervised internships. Students can begin the MSW program online at their convenience, USC School of Social Work give a start date a few. Curriculum-year foundation offers basic general knowledge, values ​​and skills. In the second year, students select specific areas: Families and Children, Health, Mental Health, and Community Organization, Planning and Administration.
All concentrations require field placements in addition to special courses. Concentrations are available in sub-Military Social Work and Veteran Services.


Highlights from the University of Southern California
USC ranked 26th among national universities by U.S. News & World Report
USC Ranked 23 among national universities by the Center for Measuring University Performance
Rossier School of Education ranked 38th by U.S. News & World Report
Master of Arts in Teaching can be completed in just one year
Tuition reimbursement program online Master of Arts in Teaching program
Accredited by the Western Association of Schools and Colleges


Overview of the University of Southern California
The University of Southern California (USC), a private university, founded in 1880. USC is world renowned research institutions located in Los Angeles, California.
The University of Southern California provides many online bachelor's, master's, and doctoral degrees and certificates. USC online has a small class. The University has many academic divisions. Rossier School of Education is known for graduate study in urban education

Education Programs

Rossier School of Education is known for research applications. The master's degree in teaching and providing interactive online learning and field-based experience in the area of students. Students are prepared to become agents of change in primary and secondary schools.
Those interested in teaching at the middle school or high school to pursue an emphasis single subject with a concentration in one of the following topics: math, social studies, language arts, or science. They are trying to teach in an elementary school subject can pursue dual emphasis.
In addition to teaching, the University of Southern California offers online master's degree programs in various fields of gerontology, aging services management, communications management, geographic information science and technology, social work, public administration, and other areas.
student Notes
Career Services Center provides networking events, workshops, career counseling, and more
Student Services team is available to help those who choose to teach in other states in identifying the most direct and efficient path to obtain local certification
Because a large number of the USC Alumni have leadership positions across the globe, graduates can benefit from networking opportunities and lifelong reference
Faculty Members
The classes provided by the University of Southern California online are taught by experienced, full-time faculty member of USC.



Thursday, March 21, 2013

masters of social work online Progam


A Master in Social Work (MSW) degree is very versatile, allowing you to work in everything from government assistance programs for private psychological counseling. Increasingly popular online Master Social Work program makes this title even more interesting, adding convenience and flexibility to earn a MSW.
Online MSW program includes coursework and clinical practice, it is usually done in the local community of students. Council of Social Work Education (CSWE), requires all MSW program to include clinical practice required for accreditation.
Students can choose from online Masters full-time and part-time from the Social Work program. Some schools offer accelerated online Master of Social Work program is. Social work master's degree is required to work in a clinical or public school work social. People with a master's degree in social work usually work as a counselor, social worker or therapist.

Article From : http://www.thebestschools.org/blog/2012/04/26/25-online-master-social-work-degree-programs/



Wednesday, March 20, 2013

social work online degree


As a professional Social Work, you can make a difference in people, AOS lives and their communities. McKinley College, AOS Social Work degree program will teach you the skills to work with children, helping parents find resources for those in need, and even contribute to changes in social policy. Education and skills will be in demand and the degree would give a competitive advantage.

Earn up to $ 40,000 per year *
Enjoy job security
Making a difference for patients, ao life
Getting your degree in 16 months
flexible scheduling
Many schools force you to work on their schedule to give a little respect to your scheduling needs. With our flexible scheduling options, you control when you pass because you always take classes that fit your schedule and not have to wait for another class to open. There, AOS is always the option of taking the class.

Experienced Faculty
Our Social Work faculty hold advanced degrees in the field and know what employers are looking for. They have been working in the field and understand what you need to know to excel. Plus, one-on-one support makes learning easier than you ever thought possible.

Student-Centered Services
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Children & Adult Problems
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Tuesday, March 19, 2013

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In a lesson at school mentioned that humans are social beings. In looking for a job was often asked, what contribution have you done to your social environment (community)? Why contribute to the community is considered by many companies?

Based on the author's observation from all sides, people who have a high value in the lesson (smart people say) majority can not socialize well. Many people are not too fond of them, because they felt he was smart, you do not change, selfish, and others.

People can socialize well with grades despite.. above average.... sometimes more successful in their careers, it is easier to progress in every step of his life. Why?? Because they can provide what other people want, not what he wanted it. That is why .. This community is very important in life because we can not live alone.

Where we can hone social science be? We have a role in their respective regions. Well, here
we can learn to socialize, volunteer work for the betterment of our Tao, the job is not easy but not difficult. The work requires a strong will, dedication, and not afraid to make mistakes. Since the error is the source of success. If we only dreamed of doing it, yes indeed very beautiful dream .. But there will be no result because it was just a dream, not doing anything concrete. Doing something must be in accordance with the planning. And in reality, nine out of 10 planning are made, not all runs smoothly. But we learn from here .. Learning from failure and adversity to become more mature and more mature.

Let us compare, among youth with adults / parents-tui. Excess youth is .. a lot of energy and a lot of time. However, these young people lack the experience and material. Conversely, an excess of old-tui is ... a lot of experience and material. However, lack of time and energy. Therefore, to have an organization / social compact and harmonious, there are advantages and disadvantages that can co-exist. Should, youth work with the guidance of an old-tui. It would have to be sustained by the commitment, cooperation and understanding is good enough. Thus, we will learn from each other, complement each other and also towards the goal of steady, advancing our Tao. Do not forget, this is a kung lohh tek too.

If people are paid to work with, and he's doing everything quite well, it is a must. However, if people work voluntarily without pay, and he's doing everything quite well, it is a value in that person. Have you had to do everything well?? Do you already have