WELF1002: Context of Human Services

Assignment 2: Reflection Essay

Team/Individual task: Individual

Word/time limit: 1000 words (+/- 10%)

Weighting: 35%

Due date: 5pm AEST 16 March 2026 (Week 7)

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Assignment overview

In this assignment, you will reflect on the way in which you think about human service provision as an opportunity for social change or as a way in which to maintain social order or social control. You will reflect on your own values and the way these have impacted your own ways of viewing the world. You will also recognise how dominant ideologies expressed by those in the media and politics impact the way human services are provided.

The purpose of this assignment is to give you an opportunity to think about what you have learned and apply it within this assignment. You should consider what has been said, what has been read, and how your thinking has changed. This assignment involves both reflective and critical thinking.

To pass this subject of study, you must achieve an aggregated grade of at least 50%. Although this assignment is not a mandatory submission, completing this assignment will give you the best chance of achieving this minimum requirement.

This assignment supports Subject Learning Outcomes 2 and 3.

Assignment details

Read through the following steps to understand and meet the requirements of this assignment:

Reflection Statement: Human service work can be seen as an opportunity for social change or a means of maintaining social order.

Reflection Essay

Discuss the given reflection statement with reference to:

your own values and the way your values have impacted on your view of the world how dominant ideologies (as expressed by those in the media and politics) impact the way human services are provided.

Included as part of your reflection essay, you will reflect on the given reflection statement and consider the way in which you think about human service provision. Consider the following questions:

1. Do you think providing human services provides an opportunity for social change?

2. Do you think providing human services are a means of maintaining social order or social control within society?

Based on what you believe, you will need to reference evidence to support your position. This means you will need to develop an argument for the way in which you 'see' the provision of human services and reflect on the influence of your own worldview in determining your position.

Note: In your reflection essay, you may agree or disagree with either concept as long as you support your argument.

Before starting your research you should begin preparing for this assignment by reading Reflection essay instructions (PPTX 736 KB). This has been developed by Dr Maggie Hall (2019) to help guide you through the assignment requirements.

Note: the reference list is not included in the word count.

Supporting Resources

The following is a list of useful resources. You are not limited to this list but please keep in mind the credibility and balance of your selected resources. That is, you can explore and refer to articles from a broad section of the media or elsewhere, but should supplement this with evidence from academically sound peer-reviewed sources.

The following titles may be useful:

• Your eText (Chenoweth & McAuliffe 2021).

• Chapter 1: Social policy and social change (PDF 2.3 MB) (Fawcett et al. 2010).

• Chapter 1: Social policy and the concept of welfare (PDF 1.2 MB) (Jamrozik 2009).

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