This assignment is a short 3-page paper identifying what you believe to be the most important difference between how social workers try to solve problems and how the legal system tries to solve those same problems, i.e., mental health, health care, immigration, etc. Students should place this paper in the context of a social problem that is of interest to them.
Instructions Students should choose a social problem that is of interest to them. This paper should: Clearly identify and explore the social problem (2-3 paragraphs). Clearly articulate the problem you are discussing. Why is it a problem? What population(s) are impacted? Discuss the approaches to the problem in both social work and law (1 page). Have laws been passed to address this issue? What legal professionals touch the social problem? How do social work professionals approach it? Discuss, briefly, tensions created in social work practice because of the different problem-solving approaches (1 page). Does the legal approac