Each student will select one question to answer. You must include the page number in the book which assisted you with your answer. Each student will comment on two of their peers responses. No two students may answer the same question.
1. Take any one of the six policy tasks that are defined in this chapter and discuss how policy practitioners often need to use a variety of policy skills to accomplish it.
2. Discuss why policy practitioners need a variety of skills, rather than only one or two, to be effective in changing policies.
3. Identify an array of policy competencies with respect to each of the four policy skills.
4. Discuss some circumstances when a legislative-advocacy style of policy practice would be more effective than an analytical style.
5. Discuss how the troubleshooting style of policy advocacy differs from the legislative advocacy style.
6. Discuss some problems in evaluating or assessing someone’s policy practices illustrated by the case of the Welfare Council that is discussed in this chapter.
7. Discuss the assertion that many social workers feel uncomfortable with the use of power? If so, why is this the case? What remedies exist in (1) curriculum of schools, or (2) in subsequent careers?
8. Discuss the assertion that policy practice can be a unifying theme for the profession of social work. What barriers exist to widespread participation in policy practice by social workers in their jobs and in their careers?
9. Ballot-based advocacy is a style of policy advocacy that:
10. The analytic style of policy advocacy makes:
11. The legislative-advocacy style of policy advocacy:
12. The troubleshooting style of policy advocacy:
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