Social Work Reflection

Pauline and her siblings lived a life filled with fear. She was taught at a very young age about the challenges that her parents had gone through in order for her and her sibling to lead a better life. Pauline and her siblings faced physical abuse from their demanding and controlling father. Only the letter ‘A’ was accepted on their school report caard… anything below that deserved a wack with a stick from their abusive father.

For this book analysis, I read the book A Piece of Cake by Cupcake brown. It is a memoir told by Cupcake about her life. She starts the book at age 11, when she was living a normal and pleasant life with her mother in San Diego. She was quite close to her along with her step father (who, at the time, she thought was her biological father), and her uncle. Then out of nowhere, she finds her mother dead in her room and her life is shaken into disaster. The court system had to turn both her and her brother over to her biological father whom she never met, instead of giving her to the man she was raised by. Her father then sent her to a foster home where she was raped and beaten constantly. When she

Throughout this assessment I will analyse a critical incident of an interaction between a worker and a service user or carer during my statutory observation experience. I will conclude my own assessment of the situation and demonstrate my understanding of the use of self, context in which social work takes place and the knowledge and methods of practice. I will not use any of the service users, carers or agencies names in this essay due to the data protection act 1998. I will also adhere to the GSCC codes of conduct that respect and relate to the service users

James is a thirteen-year old Caucasian child who is being physically and verbally abused in his home by his two parents. James suffers from multiple disorders that have not been diagnosed by a doctor. He has been removed from his home that he shares with his two younger sisters. James presently is in his Uncle Patrick’s kinship foster care where he is living. James’s case seems that he is suffering from three of the 12 core concepts. Working with children who suffer with more stress related trauma is a more challenging case for the social workers. Sometimes these cases affect the social worker, and they experience vicarious trauma. A social worker works closely with their patients and form a significant relationship

She was doing show a lot of emotions and openly her feeling about her experience and life in the book. She was telling everyone to stand up for themselves and show who they are. Some people who struggled with being in Deaf and Hearing world because they are Deaf with can read lips or hard-of-hearing with read lips. She realized which she was successful in the Deaf world because she was deaf and more easily communicate with other people. She adopted Zoe and it was impacted her life because she showed her emotions and explained why Zoe cannot able adopted by other families because she was

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.

Tells the reader stories & anecdotes of her fellow workers, including her own unstable, insecure life, taking the reader on some emotional ups & downs throughout the story

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

Today’s session was conducted by second year placement social work students and service users. The issue they covered was about the relevance of working in partnership within the social care profession.

Instead, of going home after school to the countryside. Next, Stevie’s stepfather Arvile should have started out with getting to know Stevie instead of just immediately putting himself in the father figure role and expecting Stevie to obey everything that is told to him. This could result in possibly there being a better connection between Stevie and Arvile. Last, for the factor of a disability with Stevie’s behavior and way that his teachers treated him. These are indicators that there might be something that Stevie is going through that these adults should have been aware of. This is so that they can get Stevie the help that he needs to deal with his situations and have a chance of a better outcome later in life. I do think that the system failed Stevie and that this occurred when he was at the Hubber Boys Home when it was suspected that he was being sexually abused but there was nothing that was being done about this situation. First, the system should have been notified and taken action immediately of this situation whether it occurred or not, just to make sure that it is looked over and conclusions can be drawn from

Devlin, a 13-year-old boy, knows all too well what it feels like to be left behind. He was already subjected to a tough life, living with his three younger siblings – Tracy, Zachary and Sammy – until his mother began dating yet another horrible boyfriend. This one was different. ‘Greg’ was abusive towards her and harassed the children. Every time Devlin’s mother would check to see why the kids were crying her boyfriend would always point the finger at Devlin, who found no use in arguing back. With the arrival of a new sister, Jade, Devlin’s mother was tipped over the edge, finally deciding to send him to a foster home. Over the years Devlin had managed to run away from each home just as fast as his social worker, Aroha, could place him in them.

The article I have selected is; ‘Baby P and Victoria Climbie tragedies synonymous with reforms to system’. The reason I have selected this article is because I found these two stories very interesting with the fact these two names have been reported about so many times across the media with the horrific child abuse they incurred. I also like the fact that after these two tragedies occurred there has been many reforms to the system to ensure fewer tragedies like these can occur in the future for example, social workers are making more frequent visits to children who may be at risk of any child abuse. I will structure my essay with beginning to explain the complexities and rewards for social workers then refer to the two children; baby P and Victoria on their backrounds. Afterwards, I will analyse references and how their impact effects the social services and viewers also. Finally, I will link all my findings together and I will discuss how my understanding of social work has changed as a result of undertaking this essay. Throughout my assignment the aspects I will focus on are how the media has reflected social services in these two cases of baby P and Victoria and how this effects viewer’s perspectives and the social work dilemmas and ethical issues raised by The Telegraph article.

Human service profession innovation and empower a unique context of groups and individual clients whose prosperity is surveyed with clashes, social equity, and social assorted qualities, "they are aware of multiculturalism in the public arena and its effect on the group and in addition people inside the group. They regard the way of life and convictions of people and gatherings" (national association for human administrations, 2015). My key inspiration for doing the unit was to help clients and my self-improvement as a practitioner within the field of human service. The body of this intelligent synopsis will concentrate on practice standards, values and ethic, good practice. over the duration of the semester, the exceptional key knowledge

Thank you for your input and your service. I can take constructive criticism. I am still trying to get the hang of this. It may take a little more time, but eventually I will get there. In the meantime, feel free to keep the response coming. However, I do have family and friends with Masters and PhD. But what I don’t want is people to turn my work in to their work, but advise on how I can make my work better. So I have been trying to do this on my own. I was on vacation the last 10 days. Moreover, trying to work from a cellphone and a computer with a slow internet was very challenging and frustrating to say the least. Furthermore, I will have enough time now that I am back to make sure the information is substantive

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.