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Briefly summarize your overall impressions of what the worker did well and not so well. I think the worker did a good job of summarizing Bea’s life story and issues she is facing. The social worker was able to provide an assessment, presenting problem, health summary, and other important aspects that could affect Bea’s current status. Encouraging Bea and emphasizing her strengths is another area the social worker did well on to guide her to empowerment. The social worker is also correct to want

Social welfare entails non-profit functions operating at a voluntary, public or societal basis. The functions’ clear aim is to alleviate poverty and distress among populations, as well as ameliorate poverty and distress among casualties at societal levels (Boyd, 2013). In another study, Chamblis and Schutt (2010) affirmed that social welfare constitutes social interventions seeking to maintain or enhance the people’s social functioning in entirety. Indeed, the assertions indicate that social welfare

Mutual Aid groups or self-help groups are voluntary gatherings of persons who share needs or problems that are not being addressed by existing organizations, institutions, or other types of groups. Cohen and Graybeal (2007) when on further to state that mutual aid can help people gain a sense of personal, interpersonal, and environmental control over their lives. One of the goals of mutual aid groups is to encourage the collective resourcefulness and creativity of the group and minimize the need

In this specific scenario, Caroline failed to report John freely admitting that he wants to set his foster mother’s car on fire. Caroline also did not document this thoroughly in the case note. As a professional, if a case like this brings questioning and concern, it lies in caseworker’s duty to report this to either her supervisor or the CEO of the agency where she works. In the National Association for Social Workers (NASW) Code of Ethics, duty to warn is stated in section 4.06. Caroline failed

related to immigration law include removal proceedings, employment-based petitions, temporary protective status applications, adjustment of status petitions and bond hearings. After earning her Bachelor of Science in criminal justice from Florida International

The two aspects of the critical thinking are empathy and critical consciousness. When a person has empathy, it means she/he can understand what others are feeling in a given moment, and understand why other people's actions made sense to them. Likewise, when a person understands his/her culture/self, they are able to recognized others as well. Nevertheless, empathy helps people communicate their ideas in a way that makes sense to them, and it helps people understand others when they communicate

I want to pursue professional social work education because I love to help individuals overcome barriers they face in life and help them understand and reach their full potential. Many individuals need someone to encourage them and give them a push to help them pursue and achieve their goals. This is why I want to be a social worker. As a social worker I plan to protect, advocate and empower individuals so that they are aware of their own strengths and resources to resolve problems they will face

I started my portfolio off with writing about the NASW Code of Ethics. I thought that the Code of Ethics is a great way to show that I understand a social worker professional foundation and that I understand the values and ethics of the social work profession. My Alzheimer paper show explains my understanding of how the social systems interact between people and their environment. My paper on ethical dilemma outlines how social work values and ethics could intervene in the profession of social work

Like Many other schools encourage students to become involved in service learning projects. They are designed to help the community while students gain experience solving real world problems. Many of the schools do things to help their community by doing things like organizing litter pick-ups, tutoring younger children, or conducting a health fair. Well it is time for Crawford County Community Schools to start there involvement with the service learning projects. One thing that Crawford County really

When I asked five people what social work was, I got a variety of responses ranging from family to financial helpers. As Ira Colby says (2010), “the profession is a diverse one, and diversity means that the roles and tasks that social workers perform are varied and often poorly defined” (p. 8). This certain reflects when most people are asked, for example a friend of mine named Raven said at first that she “did not know,” then added after pausing for a minute “they go to people's houses to make sure