Social Work Reflection

Some of the important classes I took that I thought were important was child development, social work practice, human behavior, stages development, old age development, 3-4 series child

What are some ways that you can learn about what is involved in a particular helping profession? Online research helped provide an understanding of duties a profession holds. I talk to individuals in my field of interest about their expected duties. This provides me with a more personal effect. College students can take courses specific to their preferred profession. Over the last two years at Southwest, I have taking several Psychology and Sociology courses.

Explain how you became interested in social work and why you chose social work as a major.

The social worker in this story had many different responsibilities and roles while working in the ER at John Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland. His responsibilities include having to put the puzzle pieces together of who the victim is as they are being treated. This is often a taunting task because the staff is in a rush. The Social worker has to find clues like driver listens or anything else that will allow them to better understand who they are working with. Her responsibilities don't stop there. He was also responsible for working with the victims family to ensure that they were informed and comfortable.

Before beginning the Master of Social Work program at Laurier I figured I had a strong understanding of what social work was. However, I quickly learned that I had only scratched the surface. I knew oppression existed, but I never understood the depth of it. I now know that I was afraid of it. It was easy for me to stay silent, because it was such a comfortable position to be in. Doing nothing meant I had nothing to lose and everything to gain. This was influenced by the privilege I had.

This was a very eye opening class for me. Coming from a mental health counselling background I have to admit it is a major difference in how social workers operate versus therapist. In this essay I will reflected on how this social work class has genuinely affected me, my strengths and weaknesses, and what I have taken away from this class. I always gain a great deal of satisfaction from helping others. I remember from middle school on through adulthood I was the go to person. If a person had an issue or needed to talk. I was the voice of reasoning. I was the one able to grab hold of certain resources if someone was in need

According to Duffy (2016), there are two different types of social work practice when it comes to working alongside a disadvantaged population. The first kind, is used more often and is called conventional social work approach, which focuses its attention on undertaking assessment and ensuring that individuals are families are received the correct support through organised services and support. On the other hand, critical social work, the less utilized approach aims to challenge the inequalities and oppression in society, by targeting the societal structure via activism and research, in order to bring forth criticism and questions on discourses attached to particular marginalised groups. The author proposes that both social work practices are important, however, critical social work should be emphasized on more frequently, especially with groups such as the ageing population as it targets the stubborn discourses (Duffy, 2016). Mattsson broadens critical social work, by relating it to critical reflection. Critical theorists have proposed critical reflection as a method to understand how social work practices can uphold oppression due to seemingly everyday actions, words and attitudes. Therefore, this can have an implication on how social workers execute their practice, as ordinary and structural features of bureaucratic hierarchies may senselessly abide social workers to uphold and reproduce social oppression, even though they might be well-intentioned. Critical reflection

My program of study is obtaining a Bachelor of Science in Sociology. In this course I will be taking the some of the following classes, Marriage and family, Intro to Probability and Statistics, Intro to Social work, Christian Worldview, etc. Intro to Probability and Statistics studies different variables of probability, and distribution. I believe I will like this class because I want to study the reasoning of people’s actions.

My interest in social work developed during college. I always had a interest in helping others in one way or another. I joined a sorority in college, Delta Sigma Theta, which is based off of community service. During the week I would volunteer to tutor children that were struggling in certain areas of school. I would talk to these children and explain to them the importance of education and try to influence them as much as possible to try their hardest in everything that they do. I would also go to nursing homes, with other member of our

At first, I was mainly focused on my basic courses. Along the way I discovered my field of study by gaining some insight on family structure as well as the classification of social needs by taking a psychology and sociology course while attending HCC. The more I became interested in these courses, the more I became eager to learn the requirements of working in the field of social worker. I learned about the study of human society and social behavior. I also learned the cognitive, emotional, and social processes of behavior.

more. The course is the only course that goes in-depth with the legal part of social work. This course should be mandatory for our program because it could apply to so many agencies other than the child welfare field.

It helped me prepare for higher education by improving my writing, presentation and analytical skills. In Social Work practice, I enjoyed learning about what my responsibilities are. I have great understanding of being non-judgemental, the anti-oppressive practice and how the Code of Practice guides social workers. I can define a 'need' using the different theories. I also learnt about the welfare state and its role in our communities. In Psychology I gained a better understanding of the motivations behind human behaviour. I found these classes thought

All of my courses have enhanced my understanding of how the US health care system is designed, and how it functions. I have gotten a clearer glimpse into how it is supposed to work, in theory, though I am aware of some the pitfalls of the system, in practice. But I would say my coursework in HCA 6200 (US Heatlh Care System), HCA 6275 (Evolution of Managed Care) have enhanced my awareness of the social, economic, political factors affecting the practice of healthcare professionals. They have affected my understanding of how these factors influence the design of the system in which healthcare professionals work, and the daily context in which their profession has a function.

At the beginning of the course, I feel that I was naive about my professional knowledge about the field of social work. I had a false knowledge about what the field entailed

In this reflection essay, I will demonstrate my learning experience in this counseling session. I will talk about my strength, weakness, verbal, nonverbal expression, including improvements needed to become more efficient in the social work profession. I will also speak about a learning tool called process recording in Social work profession. This process recording was done with the help, with my fantastic Daughter Kendra Shelton as the client and my incredible husband Michael McVay as Video Recorder /producer.