Task: Students are required to undertake a critical discussion in relation to an area of social work practice and critical social work responses. PLEASE Choose ONE contemporary practice issue from the following: homelessness and housing, disability, youth suicide, child neglect, People seeking asylum/refugees, domestic and family violence, Indigenous health, gender, sexuality, race, or climate change. Your discussion of this practice issue should critically discuss the following: 1. discuss social work’s past and current role in addressing your chosen issue 2. discuss the activities a social worker might undertake in applying a critical social work lens to the issue 3. provide an analysis of the benefits and limitations of a critical social work approach to conceptualising and addressing the issue 4. the implications of your reflections for your developing professional practice framework. Make sure you follow the below criteria that will be used by the lecturer to make this assignment. Criteria & Marking: Outline key features of social work’s past and present role that draws on relevant literature (5 marks) Identify practice examples of how a social worker could intervene from a critical perspective (10 marks) Examine and analyse the benefits and limitations of critical social work approaches in this practice area (10 marks) Outline and analyse the implications for professional practice. (10 marks) Adhere to academic conventions of writing and use of course readings (5 marks)
