Examples Of Social Work Observation

Regina is a 14 year old girl (female), of Italian descendancy from her mother’s side from her father his identity is unknown. Regina is the third oldest out of five children, she has two older half sisters Cherie age of 22 years old and Camille of age 17. A younger half brother Norman of age 13 and the youngest of the family Rose of age 8. Regina did not grow with knowing who her father was, her mom regained custody of her and her older sisters at age three. When she started to live with her mother - who she addresses as cookie, with cookie’s boyfriend Vito, her older half sisters and younger half brother. The abuse from her mother started the same day she had regained custody. Her

Regina George is a sixteen-year-old Caucasian female. She is a junior at North Shore High School, and comes a very wealthy family. Regina is in great physical health and participates in sports at her school. She is known as the meanest girl at her school, which allows her to reign as the “queen bee” of her clique, the Plastics, and of her school. Regina suffers from Histrionic Personality Disorder, which is a Cluster B Personality Disorder, classified by the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual-Fifth Edition.

Regina Forte is powerful, poise, bright and brilliant encourager. She is a force to be reckoned with. I am a person of high self-esteem; however, this was not always the case. It took some practice knowing, valuing and loving myself and as a human to finding my purpose in life so that I feel worthwhile. Moreover, I learned who I was through my faith in the Lord Jesus who is the head of my life. In addition, you can also discover who you are through a variety of lessons and experiences, especially how people react and treat you in different social interactions and positive feedback on how you influence and impact their lives. One example of differences from the inventory list is, the male co-worker mentioned that I spent my time on a weekly basis serving emotionally disturbed children. Compared to the female co-worker, she indicates that during an average weekday Regina spends her time working exercising, and studying to obtain her college degree. Moreover, there are some similarities and differences in both inventory list in how other perceive and discern who you as an

Social workers are faced with different dilemmas each and every day. It is a social workers job to be committed to their jobs and committed to their clients. Social workers are those people who are interested in helping people and helping to improve their lives. All help isn’t good help. Some of the things that social workers decide to do with their clients end up being unethical. As we explore the Jones case study, there are several different unethical decisions that were made. There are a few different dilemmas throughout the case study. Confidentiality, receiving gifts from clients and their family, social media, and also developing relationships (dual relationships). It important for social workers to have the resources such as the NASW and the standards of practice manual. The code gives us a set of values, principles, and standards to guide decision making and conduct when ethical issues arise.

Social Work Practicum 1 is one of the best courses I have ever partake in. It has left me with so much useful knowledge and a strong willingness to keep growing and doing the best I possibly can. We have done so many activities over the course of 3 months and I have become a better person and budding Social Worker because it. Yes, I have so much more to learn and I will walk into any situation with an open mind and the willingness to learn.

As I observed the N.A. group, I compared Hepworth 's, Direct Social Work Practice, five stages of group development. The Preaffiliation stage involves observation and feeling out the environment of the group; members may be hesitant to speak or test out certain behaviors to see reactions from other members of the group or the facilitator (Hepworth, Rooney, Rooney, & Strom-Gottfried, 2017, 2013). Returning group members greeted each other with hugs, handshakes, pat on the back, while newcomers sat quietly observing others. The facilitator provided an introduction and instructions for participation. Each member was instructed to introduce the first name, state "I am an addict" and take turns reading from the

Kris is a 65 year old white female. She is currently an entrepreneur and also the manager to five of her children. Kris has a convenient lifestyle. She has a house and gets frequent visits from her children, kimberly (age 34), khloe (age 32), kourtney (36), Rob (age 29), Kendall (age 20), and Kylie (age 19).

Throughout the class, many aspects of the curriculum were seen as useful in future social work practice. Before this course, in other course work, treatment planning and goal setting was often something that was reviewed briefly, yet within the coursework of the capstone seminar this matter had been gone over in more detail. Within this course, it was possible to gain more insight into a more balanced way of setting treatment goals that included conversations with the client concerning what they desired out of treatment in addition to what was needed. This aspect of the course was particularly useful when it came to working towards the development of the treatment plan with the client who was presented during the case presentation, Sarah.

The CPS social worker was available to meet with the QP and provide information about Kayla's biological family dynamics.

One spring day when she was just a little girl, Regina Falangey started acting very weird. No one knew why. She started becoming very distant from her family and friends at school. She wouldn’t talk to anyone, not even answer questions in class. Her teachers tried to get her to talk, but she didn’t want to. So when she got up into high school, she didn’t have very many friends. Not really any friends. She finally graduated high school, and went on to college. There, she started to become more social and started to gain more friends. She went on to get her PhD in becoming a doctor. After graduating from college and getting her PhD, she found a job at a hospital. Her personality from not wanting to talk, and not having many friends, changed. She became a more interesting person. She had a more bubbly personality. A year after she graduated college, her dad, Bob Falangey, started getting sick and not doing very well. They found out he had cancer. About a year after discovering the cancer, and the doctors not being able to treat it, and stop it, he died. Everyone was devastated. Regina’s mom, Carol Falangey, was so upset. It took her so long to finally live with the fact that he was gone. She asked her daughter to move in

Regina strives for excellence, but other than her inspiring life, she shall first be recognized for more than what she does but for who she is, like her personality; beautiful,

Regina was trying to lose weight for her spring fling dress so when she could not fit into the dress, she felt ashamed and resorted to an intense diet of only carbs and nutrition bars which supposedly had ingredients illegal in the US, which if the ingredients were actually illegal than it would have caused her more personal problems. Her antisocial disorder was seen when Regina would lie and cheat to her boyfriend just because she wanted to have sex with another boy. Her anti-social disorder was also seen when she called another girls house pretending to be planned parenthood in order to get that girl grounded and away from another boy. Her narcissistic personality disorder was seen when she got her boyfriend (Arron), for the sake of another girl not having him. She did not want her Arron and the rest of the student population to pay attention to another girl so therefore she started dating him for his attention the student body’s

I’ll be reflecting back on my natural observation which took place for 20 minutes with ‘Sophie’. ‘Sophie’ is a 48 month old female and her first language is English. I’ll be using a pseudonym, ‘Sophie’ as her name for confidentiality reasons stated in the and also for the teacher ‘Debbie’ (HCPC, 2012). I’ll start off by explaining the importance of observations and how it’s essential within Social work. Ill then lead on to identifying the strengths and weaknesses of the amateur observational method I demonstrated in my notes (Appendix). Ill then conclude my findings by describing any milestones I identified and linking them too theoretical explanations based on my observation.

• Relaying on Case Examples Example in everyday life: Ernestine proof that the bean diet really worked is how she lost 20 pounds in two weeks. The bean diet isn’t really nutritious considering how she lost so much weigh in a short amount of time. Yes, it does endanger a person’s health if practiced long since the person isn’t getting all of her nutrition and is limiting the amount that she eats. Example in social work practice: Guilt therapy is when the counselor makes you feel bad about your addiction or problem.

This assignment is going to look into observation as a social work tool and skill. Firstly, it is going to briefly describe the observation. Secondly it will analyse the interactions using a reflective approach. And finally, it will look into some relevant social work skills and values that relate to the discussed topic.