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After the election of Bill Clinton (who famously promised to “end welfare as we know it”) in 1992, the welfare reform debate heated up: with conservatives and liberals taking different positions on how AFDC should be changed. Looking at Appendix C, identify and briefly describe ONE reform proposal associated with each of the two dominant political orientations in America and briefly (in a few sentences) explain why it reflects the political orientation to which you assigned it.
After the election of Bill Clinton (who famously promised to “end welfare as we know it”) in 1992, the welfare reform debate heated up: with conservatives and liberals taking different positions on how AFDC should be changed. Looking at Appendix C, identify and briefly describe ONE reform proposal associated with each of the two dominant political orientations in America and briefly (in a few sentences) explain why it reflects the political orientation to which you assigned it.
A woman walks into an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting. A man cashes his disability check. Do you look at them with judgment, with sympathy, or with something in between? How you answer may depend on your perspective toward social welfare.
A look of judgment represents the stigma attached to many social services. Some recipients are more stigmatized than others—for instance, a senior receiving retirement benefits may not be perceived with contempt in the same way that a homeless person at a soup kitchen might be.
For this Discussion, you investigate what stigmatization entails and how you might address it with a certain population.
Define stigmatization as it relates to receiving social services.
Identify and describe a population that may feel stigmatized in accepting a social service.
Describe a strategy to use with a client to address stigmatization.
A woman walks into an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting. A man cashes his disability check. Do you look at them with judgment, with sympathy, or with something in between? How you answer may depend on your perspective toward social welfare.
A look of judgment represents the stigma attached to many social services. Some recipients are more stigmatized than others—for instance, a senior receiving retirement benefits may not be perceived with contempt in the same way that a homeless person at a soup kitchen might be.
For this Discussion, you investigate what stigmatization entails and how you might address it with a certain population.
Define stigmatization as it relates to receiving social services.
Identify and describe a population that may feel stigmatized in accepting a social service.
Describe a strategy to use with a client to address stigmatization.