SWRK 4230 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Last Week Tonight With John Oliver
10 Sep 2016
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Social policy is examining all the things we talked about at different level. As social workers we deal with it at the micro level. Video: mental health last week tonight with john oliver. The language used to describe/associated with mental illness. The use of criminal justice system to treat mental illness. The publics awareness about mental health is related to violence. Lack of training for police to deal with mentally ill persons. Individual have identified a problem and work on fixing it. Internal internal turmoil like maintaining a job, housing can cause social problems. How the government protects and creates a safety net for our population be it health care, education, etc. Video: welfare states and social democracy https://www. youtube. com/watch?v=jv3hmfttcfy. Liberal can be seen in the usa, uk and australia. The citizens are strongly depended on earning their own living by any means of work since there is only basic security net of social services.
