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Social Policy II
Dr. Marais
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02/27/2008

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Policy Sensitivity
Definition

Where professional give technical advice, but are aware that the client may also confront negative policy-related consequences.

 

ex. of those who are not politally sensitive:

1) Doctors who prescribe diets or medications that pts. can not afford.

 

2) Lawyers who get divorces for their clients with no thought to the economic hardship the client is likely to experience

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policy related services
Definition

Involve skills such as mediation and conflict mngmt.

 

Proffessionals should use brokerage, liason, and advocay services for specific clients.

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Brokerage
Definition

The negotiation of services for specific clients with other institutions and persons.

 

ex. a teach may broker an agreement with a welfare office to get resources for a child with syslexia.

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Liaison Skills
Definition

Connects clients to related services

 

ex. when a battered woman comes to a lawyer for divorce services, the lawyer may need to help her get access to a shelter

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How can you change policy

Definition
  1. Develope and work in coalitions
  2. using power
  3. develop tactics
  4. lobbying
  5. engaging in political proposals
  6. reforming operating programs
  7. Using persuading techniques
  8. conducting policy-related research
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Low Level Policy Impact
Definition
  1. Get on the mailing list of anadvocacy organization
  2. join a coalition
  3. Invite a speaker to educate your organization
  4. Know your non-profit advocacy rights
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Beneficence
Definition

A moral imperative to enhance clients' wellbeing

 

ex. proffessional are morrally obligated to select interventisons, diagnostic tests, and treatments that will most enhance their clients' well-being.

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Policy Sensitive Activities

Definition
  • some problems reflect situational and enviornmental presures
  • some problems are functional adaptations to oppressive realities
  • survival skills are often as important to peopl as intrapsychic interventions
  • some people need help becoming more assertive
  • empowerment or learning skills that will counter oppressive realities is as important as puely intrasyschic interventions.
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Policy-Related Activities

Definition
  • Often will ned to negotiate service arrangements between clients and family mmembers or institutions such as schools, welfare depts, child welfare depts, and clinics
  • Often willneed to connect persons to other persons, network, or intitutions
  • Often must be personal advocates for clients or must empower clients to become their own advocates (case advocates
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Policy Advocacy
Definition

The practice that aims to help relatively powerless groups improve thier resources and opportunities-such as women, children, poor peoople, African Americans, Asian Americans, Latinos, gay men and women, and people with disabilities.

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Challenges Encountered by Policy Advocates
Definition
  • Crowded Field
  • Divergent interests,values and ideology
  • Different beliefs about whether a specific policy is or will be effective in addressing a specific social problem
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Crowded Field
Definition
Many groups, persons, and interests take an interest in specific policies, espeically when someone wants to initiat a new policy or change an existing one.
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Different beliefs that block advocacy 
Definition

People support or oppose policies because they believe they impinge on their fundamental values.

 

ex. conservatives prioritize values such as freedom, localism in social policy, and individualism. 

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Policy Practice

Definition

Efforts to Change Policies in legislative, agency and community settings, by establishing new policies, improving existing ones, or defeating the poicy initiatives of other people.

 

*with social work, policy practice is usually policy advocacy.

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Agenda-Setting Tasks
Definition
When presenting problems to an agency, community or legislative descision maker, advocates engage in agenda setting tasks.
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Problem-Analyzing Tasks
Definition
When social science research used probes their causes and when they analyze policy options to find a policy that they prefere, practioners perform Problem-Analyzing Tasks
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List 4 reasons sw should engage in policy reform work:
Definition
  1. Promote social justice, fairness, self-determination, and confidence.
  2. Promote well-being of clients, consurmers, etc. by shaping the human serv. system to conform to latest findings of social science and med. research
  3. Creat effective oppostion to groups and citizens that run counter to the code of ethics, and to the well beign of clients, etc, and to put pressure on decision makers to approve and retain policies that advance citizens' well-being
  4. To change the composition of government so that legislators and decision makers are more likely to advance values such as social justice, fairness, self-determination, and confidence.
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Ethical Rational
Definition
  1. Why should SW in direct service include policy sensitive and policy related activies.
  2. Why S.W. should also engage directly in policy advocacy.
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Analytic Rational for Policy Advocay
Definition
Advocates should support those policies that are supported gy social science and medical research, as well as research by economists.
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Deontology
Definition
Moral reasoning that relies on various ethical principles such as honesty.
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Utilitarianism
Definition

A form of ethical reasoning that criticize reliance on ethical principles on the grounds that people often differ on the definitions or weigting of principles.

 

ex. the priciples of autonomy (or self-determination) and not killing, conflict, so ethical resolution is difficult

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Due Process
Definition
The right to procedural safeguards when accused of crimes or when benefits or rights are withdrawn.
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Eclectic Approach to Ethical Reasoning
Definition
  1. Some considerations drawn from Deontologists
  2. Some considerations drawn from Utilitarians
  3. Some considerations drawn from Relativists
  4. Practical Considerations
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Relativists Approach
Definition
Analize cultural factors that shape the ethical choices of people in specific historical periods, whild considering other factors, such as institional and fiscal realities.
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Political Rational for Advocacy
Definition
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