Social Work Field Observation Report

This source provides a description of the pedagogical revolution that is occurring in our universities regarding mindfulness. University curriculums are now being implemented with mindfulness. This will for a greater dissemination of mindfulness and I want to discuss this specifically in my

The prolific success rates of mindfulness-based therapeutic techniques among the body of evidence only highlights how we can further incorporate mindfulness into not only psychological treatments, but also into our daily lives as preventative measures against unnecessary distress. The cognitive perceptual and interpretive control afforded via mindfulness practices seems to influence the appraisal of the situation at hand affects our reaction and response to it. The advantageous ability to objectively reflect on an issue before responding is not confined only to the realm of treating psychological symptoms.

This is Journal #9. My placement is at Weakley County Nursing and Rehabilitation Center in Dresden, Tennessee. The ninth day I attended my placement was on Tuesday, April 5, 2016. I volunteered from 10:00 am to 1:00 pm.

This paper is about my experience with mindfulness based meditation and scientific inquiry of these experiences. Mindfulness based meditation is describes as technique used to cultivate nonreactive, non-judgmental and stable awareness of the present moment (Garland and Gaylord, 2009). The end goal is to sustain this meta-cognitive state for a long period of time. I practiced non-denominational form of mindfulness based meditation for the first time in my psychology class, which was devoted towards intellectual and experiential examination of meditation. The practice was conducted in a group it was instructed by our own professor and it begun at the end of class. There was one sessions per week and each session was structured meaning it was

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

Teaching mindfulness might be thought to be simple, but in real sense it’s actually not easy to do effectively because one must first

At around 0953 on June 8, 2017, I contacted Mrs. BV the director of the geriatric social worker who is in charge of older adults home, long-term and nursing facilities visitations in the community. She has few different ways of collecting her data, one of them is by interviewing residents face-to-face in their homes. She stated that this method has been efficient because she gets honest information from the residents by speaking to them directly. She also reviews long-term and nursing facilities including the city health department data to compare with her assessment findings. After evaluating all the data, community-acquired pneumonia was identified as the priority health problem due to the lack of knowledge on signs and symptoms of the disease.

Over the years Mindfulness has been a way to treat a variety of health related conditions anywhere form stress, anxiety and even cancer (M.Orsillo, 2010). Practicing mindfulness does not relate directly to any specific faith or religious beliefs. Mindfulness inside the practice of social work was implemented to help those with suicidal thoughts and borderline personality disorder. DBT teaches individuals the skill to not be judgmental. Being non-judgmental can be a difficult skill these days because we were raised or taught to have different thoughts and points of views (Brantley, 2007).

Coming into the class I was interested in learning more about how the class was going to be structured. Even while reading the book and doing the assignments I did not think much of what we were going to do. Once the schedule was passed out I was excited, but a little nervous. Meditation was a bigger part of my life during my teenage years, and yoga was something that was enjoyable, but not something I actively participated in because I have never heard of a yoga studio that worked with individuals with different abilities. Mindfulness was a word that I had heard, but only associated it with a previous Professor that I took during my associates. Unfortunately, there were many negative experiences that turned

Focusing on the present-moment internal and external experience broadens attention and allows for suspension of previously practiced patterns of reacting (anticipation or over engagement), sometimes called decentering (KQED, 2016). The practice of mindfulness with curiosity and acceptance strengthens tolerance for distress by altering automatic response patterns described previously. When practiced regularly, mindfulness can provide a powerful tool for restoring emotional balance and preventing engagement in harmful behavior (Charlotte Twizell,

Meditation is something that, prior to this semester, I had never experienced. I wanted to incorporate it into my self-care plan because I struggle with stress management and pessimism. Negative thoughts and feelings will sometimes get the best of me; meditation seemed like a good habit to create in order to control and manage my stress and cynicism. Meditation was difficult at first, but the more I practiced it the easier it became. It assisted me in processing my feelings and thoughts, more importantly it led me to insights about myself. It helped me to understand how I function and areas where I need to improve. For example, I never processed my fear surrounding death; meditation assisted me in recognizing that my fear stems not from my facing my own mortality, but rather from the prospect of losing my son or husband. Nothing scares me more than losing them in any form, and death is a form of loss. Meditation also assisted me in recognizing areas where I have improved, but previously did not observe (e.g. my view of alcoholism has drastically changed and for the better). Finally, meditation helped me to process some extremely intense negative emotions unrelated to the course (having learned to meditate could not have happened at a more necessary time). Meditation was by far the most useful self-care activity for me; it is one habit I plan to cultivate and utilize throughout my

PER REPORTER: Shane said this family already has an open case but nothing has been done about the situation because Vickie and Tim are friends with the case worker who is over the family’s case. Shane said the case worker over the family’s case goes by Gloria or Glenda at CPS. Shane said Tim does the worker’s laundry and Vickie use to worker with the woman’s children at their school. Shane said if the following information is disclosed to the family then they will know he made the following report. Shane said he does not believe Kayla is supposed to leave with Jackson in her care because she only has visitation rights. Shane said he and Kayla bought went to rehab which is how they got close to each other. However, Shane said one day while they

My anxiety usually revolves around things that I cannot control, specifically the past and the future. After learning what it meant to be mindful, I learned that I was never truly present in anything that I did, and this scared me. I was living my life for tomorrow or for yesterday, and I truly wanted to change this. For this project, I decided to look up common mindfulness practices that would be easy for me to implement into my daily routine, but that would also be extremely effective. The research led me to mindfulness immersion. Mindfulness immersion requires that one truly gets involved in the present, by trying something new each day. With mindfulness immersion, the practitioner has to be able to perform an activity and fully immerse themselves in this practice. For example, on February 17th, I decided that my mindfulness immersion activity would be brushing my teeth. Although the brushing of teeth might seem like a natural activity, we have become so accustomed to brushing our teeth that we barely think while we brush our teeth. The routine nature of brushing our teeth has caused us to be less present and shifts our focus to thoughts of events later on in the day. We think of brushing our teeth as a simple event in our lives, but being so, we can easily shift our attention to every detail of the action that we are performing and became fully immersed in it. Since there is nothing special about having to brush your teeth and no experience will be different, one can spend this time reflecting on what is happening in that moment. Doing this creates an entirely new experience, and connects with the idea of being accepting because one has to realize what they are doing, and choose to immerse themselves completely in this activity. Each day, I picked a new activity that was part of my routine and tried to turn it

This worker was able to meet with Ms. Mango on 3/10/2017 at her mother Katherine Mango’s home located at 477 Fairton Road in Monroe New Jersey.

Before taking the class, and before really understanding the benefits of mindfulness, I must admit, I did not really take mindfulness exercises seriously. I tried a few exercises, led by a phone application, but I constantly wondered what these exercises were supposed to achieve. I always thought to myself, “I know what happens around me, being mindful is great, but specific exercises for this seemed exaggerated.”