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    The career I’ve decided to research is a social worker, more specifically a child and family social worker. A social worker is responsible for helping clients overcome and adapt to situations that they may be facing in life. Child and family social workers often help children that are going through family issues and could be in an unsafe environment. People in this career field secure living situations and provide resources for families or individuals in need. This falls under the career category

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    Anderson, L. E., Weston, E. A., Doueck, H. J., Krause, D. J. (2002). The child-centered social worker and the sexually abused child: Pathway to healing. Social Work Journal, 47, (4), 368-378. This article focuses on providing treatment and assistance through the judicial process from child-centered social workers to minimize the potential opportunity for system induced trauma. Social workers are very important to the legal process. They are the people who are considered experts in the area of child

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    Social Worker Vs Health

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    The two members of the children’s workforce I will be explaining are a health visitor and a social worker. A health visitor goes to visit every family once the baby is born, when the expert skills of the midwife are no longer necessary. The health visitor is a nurse with additional qualifications and training in other various other aspects of childcare. They visit the family every once in a while to offer advice, support and opinions on a broad range of situations that may occur. Several families

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    Within the social work profession, stress is an inevitable element that is associated with the job. This is due to the various environments that social workers work in, the various vulnerable populations that are served, and at times high quality of demand of work without the proper resources to achieve the task. Stress management is an important element to maintain and recognize throughout a career as a social worker. Studies show that there are many social workers who deal with workplace stress

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    Social work is an important job that encourages making connections with people ranging from all ages. If you want to make a change in someone life and give them the neccessary tools to do so, then becoming a social worker is the job for you. Now becoming a social worker in Florida , you must meet the necessary requirments. In order to fully work as a social worker, it is is important that you become licensed in the field. Having a social work license is important because you are giving reassurance

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    The social worker was called by Dr. Sundaram nurse to come speak with a patient. The social worker met first with Dr. Sundaram who explained that the patient is severely depressed, very tearful and has self diagnosis herself with Bipolar. The social worker met with the patient in the exam room. The patient is a 39 year old African American woman. She lives with her fiancé (wedding date: 9/12/2015) and her three sons ages 16 and (2) 15 year olds as well as her fiancé’s three children ages 9,7, and

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    Why I want to be in the BSW program My purpose for wanting to be in the social worker program is simple, I want to earn a degree so I may become a licensed social worker. I want to be a social worker because I want to help people and I have to have a degree to do so. When I say help people I really want to help; I want to help people who are hurting and need to know how to heal from it. I realize I want be able to help everyone but, if I can help only one person then I have full-filled my purpose

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    of those around me. I believe that the field of social work will provide me a better opportunity to apply my passionate desire to make an impact and meaningful difference to others in the community. Furthermore, becoming a social worker is a career where I believe that I can put my own personal experience to good use since I lived in an abusive family environment throughout my teenage years that frequently involved the intervention of social workers—some who cared deeply and others who only saw it

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    become a social worker. My current study of field is Human Services in Child Welfare. This field requires one to be very professional as well as having many characteristics to be good at your job. One of the main characteristics one must possess is being organized. Being organized will help you succeed in this job field actually any job field. Besides the fact that you may be dealing with a heavy case load so you need to have everything in order this also includes having yourself in order. A social worker

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    The National Association of Social Workers Code of Ethics is helpful in guiding decision making and clarifying ethical considerations for social work practice (NASW Press, 2015). The standards below may provide the guidance a social worker is looking for when facing an ethical dilemma such as the one described in this paper. Standard 1.01, Commitment to Clients, addresses the social work role and responsibility in promoting the client’s well-being (NASW Press, 2015). Legal obligations and/ or

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