Trends and issues in today’s health care DQ 8

Discussion, trends and issues in today’s health care

Identify advocacy strategies that you can use to create change in your current workplace.

The Southern Poverty Law Center is a nonprofit legal advocacy organization that specializes in civil rights and public interest litigation.

In the counseling profession, advocacy can become a part of our professional role at any time. Our country has recently seen a spike in hate crimes. This is a resource that can keep you informed about strategies used to address civil rights issues.

If you were working with a client who had just experienced a hate crime, how would you address this issue? What questions would you explore? Would you be comfortable addressing this type of issue with your client? Why or why not? Would you recommend this resource or use it for your future practice? Why or why not? Think about it…

https://www.splcenter.org/

You must proofread your paper. But do not strictly rely on your computer’s spell-checker and grammar-checker; failure to do so indicates a lack of effort on your part and you can expect your grade to suffer accordingly. Papers with numerous misspelled words and grammatical mistakes will be penalized. Read over your paper – in silence and then aloud – before handing it in and make corrections as necessary. Often it is advantageous to have a friend proofread your paper for obvious errors. Handwritten corrections are preferable to uncorrected mistakes.

Use a standard 10 to 12 point (10 to 12 characters per inch) typeface. Smaller or compressed type and papers with small margins or single-spacing are hard to read. It is better to let your essay run over the recommended number of pages than to try to compress it into fewer pages.

Likewise, large type, large margins, large indentations, triple-spacing, increased leading (space between lines), increased kerning (space between letters), and any other such attempts at “padding” to increase the length of a paper are unacceptable, wasteful of trees, and will not fool your professor.

The paper must be neatly formatted, double-spaced with a one-inch margin on the top, bottom, and sides of each page. When submitting hard copy, be sure to use white paper and print out using dark ink. If it is hard to read your essay, it will also be hard to follow your argument.