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The results were obtained through surveys administered in 2010 at a social work conference, with 226 subjects completing the survey in full. The majority of the subjects were female and/or Caucasian, and a most of them had achieved at least an MSW.

This Boy’s Life is a book that addresses many interesting topics, including alcoholism, abuse, and misogyny. This book is an interesting memoir that I would suggest for everyone. Reading it was exciting, scary, and kept me guessing. Jack is the main character. He becomes rebellious because he does not have a stable father figure in his life and his mother doesn’t discipline him. Eventually he tries to get out of the bad situation that he is in and make a better life for himself. Rosemary is Jack’s mother. She moves around a lot with Jack because the men in her life are very abusive and she wants to get away from them. Eventually he tries to get out of the bad situation that he is in and make a better life for himself. Dwight marries Rosemary,

Calli N. Morrison and Constance R. Tullis are students at the School of Social Work at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock.

I chose the group as an alternative to an addiction group that had a general idea similar to AA. When the group was canceled for the evening, I was offered to observe the 12Stone Care grief group as a second choice, held at the same time on November 16th. The 12Stone Care grief group provided valuable support to members and non-members of the church alike, and the sole requirement was to have lost a loved one. L.H., the widowed leader of the group, lost her husband to cancer ten years ago and started the semester-long grief group in 2013 in order to encourage others who are or have been in the grieving process (L.H., personal communication, November 16, 2015). Her goal in 12Stone Care is a “prayer is that [one] will find freedom from [their] struggles and healing in Christ” (12Stone Church,

In addition, the therapeutic value of working with grief in diverse groups is of particular interest to me based on the existential challenges in dealing with death, loss of relationships, career, or anyone or anything deemed to be of significance to individuals. Likewise, our society is frankly abysmal in recognizing and supporting those in need of support, therapy and long-term assistance in dealing with grief and loss. Additionally, group work can be a highly effective way to help grieving individuals expand their network of relationships thus helping them move forward in a health way (Corey el al.,

In the memoir This Boy’s Life, written by Tobias Wolff, Wolff recalls the wild events of his childhood and how he developed throughout adolescence. Young Toby dealt with a variety of events including moving, surviving high school, and dealing with a variety of abuse from his alcoholic stepfather, Dwight. From a young age, Toby has a prominent mischievous side. Performing a variety of pranks throughout his adolescence, he often lived in the moment without much thought to his actions. But as he matured, he began to understand the consequenes of this thought process. Facing punishments such as a suspension from school, fights, and abuse from his stepfather, over time Toby learned that he could no longer be so careless when it came to his actions.

Social work agencies strive to provide access to services that promote well-being for those most in need in society. Different agencies may vary in regard to their specific purposes, missions, or foundations. Two agencies that provide assistance in diverse ways to individuals in need are the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services and The Mayhill Hospital. The following discussion will explore comparisons and contrasts between these agencies with regard to their focuses, interventions, and roles.

Death at any stage in life is personal and holds different meanings to different people. Society places a great deal of meaning on death based upon age, situation, and their personal experiences and beliefs. The viewpoints of death and dying in early childhood are limited; however, children have a basic understanding of death by the age of two through their own observations of family members (Berger, 2008). Children who are dying often fear death as they do not have a fully developed concept of dying and associate death with abandonment (Berger, 2008). At this life stage, it is important to have guidance from his or her parents to gain a better understanding of death and dying.

This intervention was a personal intervention conducted on myself. I am a 39-year-old Caucasian married mother of two currently enrolled in the Advanced Standing Master Social Work Program at Florida International University.

To a child, avoidance can be a message.” They will eventually pick up the signals because death happens everywhere. I have seen dead animals: birds, worms, cockroach, etc. Kids see these things and they’re aware of it. It helps if they’re informed about it because they should be able to express their feelings. Doughty claimed “my childhood would have been different if I had been introduced directly to death (33).” Once they’re exposed to death, it won’t hurt them as much comparing to finding out death later on. If you don’t think about death, you wouldn’t be able to be prepared when it does

Kathleen M. Gilbert is a social worker for Little Flower Children and Family Services in Jamaica, New York. Ms. Gilbert works in the mental health field of social work as a psychotherapist part time where she provides counseling and emotional support on Mondays, Tuesdays, and Wednesdays in the late afternoons and evenings. Alongside social work, Ms. Gilbert is an instructor at Nassau Community College. She has been employed at Nassau Community College and Little Flower Children and Family for ten years. She found out about the agency through a friend that was already in the business of social work. Beginning her college experience, she started out double majoring in both the field of public health and French, after her bachelors she was able to receive her master’s in public health. Desiring a change, she got her masters in social work and was grandfathered in as a LCSWR. At one point, she was also grandfathered in to be a CASAC, which is a credential for substance abuse and alcohol counseling, and aided clients through all aspects of addiction and dependency. Her time as a CASAC was done through a community organization and she was the chairperson of the Brooklyn committee of alcoholism. Aside from providing psychotherapy services, she also gives referrals for adjunct services and makes home visits. Although she is no longer in the public health field directly, she has used her knowledge of counseling and education in public health to aid her in social work.

Tobias Wolff’s memoir, This Boy’s Life, concentrates on the intense physical and emotional abuse Toby endured throughout his adolescence. Toby spent the majority of his juvenile years wandering around the United States as his divorced mother struggled to find employment and deprived her son of any affection. Eventually, Toby’s mother Rosemary met a man named Dwight who promised her and her son a better life. Rosemary makes the decision to move Toby to Chinook, Washington with Dwight in an attempt to evaluate a new living situation. After only a few days of living with Dwight, Toby is already a victim of Dwight’s relentless brutality. Despite the cruel treatment, Toby lies to his mother because he knows Dwight can offer a more stable life, albeit a challenging one. Toby’s life instantly deteriorates upon moving to Chinook, as Dwight’s cruel treatment and demeaning words ultimately beat Toby into a state of worthlessness. Living in the state of abuse and failure proves to be a formidable task for Toby, and in order to cope with the trauma, he buries himself in the recesses of his imagination. As a child, the only option of escape is through thoughts, but as Toby moves on to high school, the emphasis of escape shifts from mental to physical. Toby 's corrosive life of domestic abuse and consistent failure fuel his desire for mental and physical escape from the horrors of his reality.

In this paper, the intern will disclose information from a case that they experienced during their internship at the Mobile County Department of Human Resources. The paper will demonstrate the intern’s knowledge of the presenting problem and the fundaments of their field placement. It will explain the client’s problem in context and display the intern’s ability to understand diverse groups. Next the paper will explain the how a plan was established for the clients and how the intervention process was utilized in their case. Then the intern will describe how the plan and intervention was evaluated and, if successfully, how the termination process was applied. Lastly, the intern will identify any issues related to social work values and

Nader and Salloum (2011) made clear that, at different ages, children differ in their understanding of the universality, inevitability, unpredictability, irreversibility, and causality of death. They believed, despite the increasing understanding with age of the physical aspects of death, a child may simultaneously hold more than one idea about the characteristics of death. However, factors that complete the determining nature of childhood grieving across different age groups may be a difficult task for a number of reasons including their environment in means of the support they have available, the child’s nature in terms of their personality, genetics, and gender, coping skills and previous experiences, the developmental age, grieving style, whether or not therapy was received, and the relationship to the deceased (Nader & Salloum, 2011). Crenshaw (2005) found that according to our current understanding of childhood traumatic grief and normal grief, thoughts and images of a traumatic nature are so terrifying, horrific, and anxiety provoking that they cause the child to avoid and shut out these thoughts and images that would be comforting reminders of the person who died. The distressing and intrusive images, reminders, and thoughts of the traumatic circumstances of the death, along with the physiological hyper-arousal associated with such re-experiencing, prevent the child from proceeding in a healthy way with the grieving process (Crenshaw, 2005). McClatchy, Vonk, and

In locating a social service agency, a collaborative focus on counseling directed our attention to the Agape Counseling and Training Service. This agency related to the interest of the group, and can be located at 500 Thurmond Mall, Suite 211, Columbia, SC. Agape is also reachable on their website at, http://agapects.com. The agency is directed by Sheryl Mims Williams, LPC. Agape focuses on the ora of the client(s) with the desire to help individuals gain an understanding of all aspects of their lives. In relation to our beliefs as upcoming social workers, Agape believes that, “Problems can and do affect physical, emotional, social, and spiritual well being (AGAPE Counseling and Training Services, Inc. (n.d.).”