Compare and contrast the desirable characteristics of one’s social support network with regard to any two of the following age groups: children, adolescents, young adults, and older adults. You may add details (about race, ethnicity, urban vs. rural home environment, and any others) as is appropriate to your own community or practice settings.
What will be an ideal response?
In this assignment, students must consider the specific physical, developmental, and social needs of people at these different stages of life. As examples:
• Children are highly dependent on others and in need of peer socialization
• Adolescents are beginning to have a life away from the home and require transportation, money, and peers with comparable interests and life styles
• Young adults are embarking on independence and are responsible for their own budgeting; they also make choices regarding partners that can have life-altering consequences
• Older adults are again becoming dependent on others due to physical changes, and they also tend to experience smaller social networks
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The incremental development of the social welfare system has resulted in the fragmentation of services
a. True b. False
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A. Social justice B. Oppression C. Racism D. Stereotyping
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a. conducting screenings and assessments and offering services such as individual counseling related to illness or death b. providing case management services c. representing the hospital in the broader social work community d. making primary decisions about the scope and extent of medical services provided to patients