The Field Of Social Work

As part of my Health and Social Welfare degree in the second year one of the modules covered is Fieldwork placement when students are sent out to work in the community and to enhance personal experience and knowledge and be able to learn through practice. For my placement I was sent out to work in a mediation centre called West Yorkshire family mediation this service is a charitable

Social workers’ commitment to social justice means they want everyone to have a fair and equal opportunity to an assessment. In line with fairness, social workers should tell carers about their right to refuse an assessment as their permission, and not the person receiving care, is needed before the carer’s assessment can commence. In addition, social workers, bound by legislation regarding confidentiality and information sharing, must reserve the carer’s right to privacy whilst uphold their right to a fair hearing. This is achieved by only disclosing carer’s personal details to 3rd parties with consent, unless a safeguarding concern arises.

During this week’s readings there was several things that grasped my interested including the roles of the supervisor, symptoms and interventions with burn outs, abuse from clients, contradictory demands, as well as confirmation. The first one is the role of a supervisor, as I have mentioned before I feel that I have a satisfactory supervisor at my current field placement. I cannot say that I have always felt so confident with my previous supervisors, however Cathy has showed me hope as well as standards for my future supervisors and for when I become a supervisor myself. Something that Kadushin and Harkness mentioned in the readings

The BSW program at Augusta University embraces the principle that field education is indeed the cornerstone of undergraduate or graduate training in social work. This "signature pedagogy" is the culmination of the knowledge and skill building those students engage in while doing coursework. During senior year in the program, students receive required training experience in supervised placement standings doing professional social work practice. The goal of field education is to provide students with professional social work skills

I interviewed Kim, a LICSW working in private practice in Providence along with her two brothers. She takes on a person-centered approach to her therapy and is very focused on helping her clients achieve their goals, whether it be overcoming grief or dealing with a large adjustment in their lives. Kim certainly appears to be running a very successful practice and by being able to speak to her directly, I learned much more about the social work field.

The field supervisor’s role is to guide and assist the student as they learn to implement the theory and skills learned through their academic studies. The supervisor and student form a working partnership whereas each utilize this placement to enhance their levels of expertise. The placement provides a hands on approach to the social work student whereas strengths and weakness are identifying and feedback is given as a means to improve the skill levels of the student practitioner.

I am interested in the field of Social Work for several reasons. First, it is one of the few careers which offers diversity in the areas of focus. My interests are not limited. Instead, I can work with people from all stages of life who could potentially need help with physical, emotional, or mental health issues. Also, the field of Social Work is never boring! I have always been an agile person and like to be kept on my toes. Lastly, after leaving the military service I realized that I found it personally rewarding to be able to help people in need. In my experience, social workers the vulnerable without discrimination.

The social work profession has been around for centuries, without the social work profession or social welfare policies; the United States would be filled with poverty and other detrimental conflicts that our society faces. Social workers and polices have protected individuals who have lost everything during a crises and providing them with shelter and resources that can potentially save them from hitting rock bottom. The origins of social work profession came about in the 19th century in England, churches and the federal government tried to help individuals in need but through time there was too many people in crises and little resources11111. Unable to figure out a way to solve the dire problems on their own the local people of Great Britain

The objective of this session was to revisit goals and gauge the client’s progress. The social worker was supposed to identify how the progress had been tracked over six weeks, and identify the client’s observable behavior changes. The social worker was also supposed to identify and discuss any obstacles or barriers that the client came across during her time in the assisted living facility.

A large component of the social work profession is cultural competency. According to the National Association of Social Workers, in order to be culturally competent, social workers should understand culture and its’ role in society (National Association of Social Workers [NASW], 2008). Social workers should be able to recognize the strength of each culture, have knowledge of their clients’’ cultures, and provide culturally sensitive services to each individual with whom they work with (NASW, 2008).

The theory that most closely explains and addresses this phenomenon is the ecological theory. In this theory it states that many factors contribute to one main problem. In this case the main issue is poverty. Poverty, according to Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs is the lowest possible level that a person can be. In order to move out of this level one must first acquire food, water, shelter and a sense of safety. Programs and policies aimed at solving poverty is that sense of safety. With safety a person may feel comfort in that they know that they can receive their basic needs. Still, factors such as stress, worrying about the termination of these services, and stigma remain which can lead to weight gain, poor mental and

There are many helping professions. Society has doctors, therapist, teachers, nurses, etc. To help means to assist, which means to serve. Every business has the infrastructure to serve a need presented for whatever motives lay behind the person’s reasoning. What makes social work idiosyncratic unlike the rest is the willingness and passion to promote human well-being. I yearn and hunger to see growth of what is already innate. That is the reason psychology became my undeclared major.

It is mainly focused on providing parental information and will require adaption in dealing with the trend. Research has shown that being obese or overweight negatively effects an adults or child’s mental health (Huang et al., 2005). While this intervention already has a mental health sector, with the increasing need of the population this will likely need to be expanded, and other departments may need to undergo training to identify mental health symptoms.

Being in the Social Work field has its risks as well as its benefits. As social workers, you are assisting people that are in need of help in certain areas of their lives. Individuals who work in the practice are recommended to have to high emotional intelligence due to heavy demands of the job and the emotional strain it may have on our everyday lives. Daniel Golman defines Emotional Intelligence as “being able to motivate one’s self and persist in the face of frustrations; to control impulse and delay gratification; to regulate one’s mood and keep distress from swamping the ability to think; to empathize and to hope.” (Golman, 1996 as cited in Morrison, 2007, p. 246). Within this definition, derives five domains in which Tony Morrison discusses in his literature and how to apply it to Social Work practice. It has been proven in numerous studies and experiments in Morrison’s literature that people with a high Emotional Intelligence are often able to have positive outlook on life in general.

Choosing social work as my future profession was a decision I made after much reflection, considering the fact that more than just a profession, social work is a vocation that I must commit to, professionally and personally. One of the main reasons why I decided to pursue social work as my future profession is that I have always been interested and passionate about social issues, particularly those I find relevant to my life. My experience living close to informal settlers in my community exposed me to the realities and roles of individuals and groups to the problem of poverty: some 'actors' assume the role of the distant, self-serving individual, and other 'actors' actually take the time to get to know these communities and understand their situations. I believe I could be the latter and consciously prefer to avoid being the former. Another motivation for me to pursue social work is that it is a profession that leads to progressive career development, either I specialize on a particular sector of expertise or I expand my practice of social work in helping implement development programs in different sectors. And ultimately, I think that social work also responds to my need to have my passion as my profession. I want my future work to feel that it is a part or extension of me, within and outside of my work environment that is, I want my profession to still make me feel like the same person that I am even after or when I am not at work.