Social Work Reflection

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.

She was always trying to inspire others. She was a helpful person and always wanted to have an extraordinary life. She enjoyed hanging out with friends, family and doing art. She worked hard and studied hard in school. Her favorite subject in school was science, she enjoyed learning new things. She struggled in math a little, but she never threw in the towel. She always tried to keep an open and positive mind about school and her classes. She wanted to get a high school degree, go to college and get a job in graphic

As a Learning Assistant, working in Year 3, I worked closely with a seven year old girl who, for the purpose of this case study, I will call Jane. Jane was a confident and happy girl who, despite not being particularly academically gifted, always participated with class discussions and activities enthusiastically.

She expresses herself as optimistic and cheerful, upbeat and full of energy ready to face any new challenge and thus connected with the younger generations due to her “youthfulness”

Aminata’s love for education comes from her father, and it acts as a light that

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

Friends are a big part of your high school life as these are the people you will grow

Music with some stress occasionally and she likes to talk to people that are trustworthy to her. She deals with conflict by simply walking away. It complements the power she know she has over herself. Her close friends would describe her as thoughtful, caring, and dramatic. She listens to stories from strangers just to hear them out and assure they’re heard and cared for. She's soft in soft moments from movie scenes to actual real-life touching situations asserting her emotion in all ways. She’s also dramatic. When she’s dramatic it’s “over the top dramatic,” especially when the problems are simple. She’d choose to have mind reading ability out of any superpower. She would like to further understand the human mind. She also believes in spirits and demons and she’s interested in ghost topics. But she doesn’t believe in aliens or any other extra terrestrial organisms. She’s not that big of a science geek. Science is her least favorite class subject. Also we touched on world topics. If she could be anyone else in time she’d go back in time and be Dr. Martin Luther King. She’d be Dr. King to be one of the first black to step ahead to vocalize what was going on in a sad America. She wouldn’t change a bit of his role, she’d be him, serving the country no different that the real MLK did. To her, success is “accomplishing any desirable goals.” So she can see in her eyes that everyone is successful no matter what

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

Being willing and available to share and implement thoughts and suggestions to others about unexpected life situations are a major part of being of social worker. For myself, being available to offer solutions to people of all genders, backgrounds, religions and more engenders a sense of purpose and accomplishment. My social work experience thus far has taught me how valuable communication is from both the person needing assistance and the individual offering help. Generally speaking, most people prefer individuals that will listen to them attentively as they share their thoughts. I have realized that during this process, both parties are given the opportunity to intake the information, before releasing any suggestions. Communication is essential, in order to properly identify and fix the problem.

Am I ready for a journey of self- awareness as part of the process of becoming a social worker? Once I acknowledged these questions, I began my educational journey towards a career in social services. A field in which I believe is my life’s

Kylie is a Hawaiian-American girl who lives in the same neighborhood as the school with her parents and older brothers. At dismissal, she walks home with her brothers, who attend the same school as 4th and 5th graders. During the first month of school, Kylie was unpredictable in her participation patterns. On some days she would raise her hand as high as she could, wide-eyed and ready to share with the class; on other days, she would be looking at the assignment, book, or teacher without saying a word.

“Karen Ortega likes to talk to her friends and learn. She likes to multitask because she is smart. Her favorite sport is basketball but she doesn’t like to run. She eats a lot even though she wants to get skinny for spring break. She is very good at basketball and good-looking too, just to clarify. She will fight a bird. She is always on her phone, she does her work sometimes but not all the time. Her favorite subject is algebra but she does not like the teacher even though she still learns. She came from lamar middle school and moved to Whitesboro over the summer amen!”- Karen Ortega

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.