a) Explain why social work students who are interested only in direct practice need to study social welfare policy?
b) Access one of the online job search websites (e.g., CareerBuilder.com, Indeed.com) and look at the job descriptions for open positions identified as “social work.” Do these job descriptions seem more closely related to micropractice or macropractice? In what way?
c) Briefly describe the triadic structure of the policy-based professional model (Chapter 1 of Text) and give an example of ONE of the three systems.
