Critical social work

I’m well aware that my duties as a Social Worker will be to help people in need, address their problems, and enhance my professional expertise. How do I help people create change when they’re struggling and resistant to help? Societal values teach me that you can’t help someone who isn’t…

Policies and Accreditation Standards, Council on Social Work Education, Inc., competencies are “measurable practice behaviors that are comprised of knowledge, values, and skills. The goal of the outcome approach is to demonstrate the integration and application of the competencies in practice with individuals, families, groups, organizations, and communities.” (2008, 2012) There are ten core competencies that in order to be proficient in practice each social worker must need to learn to apply…

relation based practice. I will explore these factors using my own experiences along with my understanding of "self". I will elaborate by providing personal experiences of group work then the roles within this. By demonstrating my ability to work with others I will provide an understanding of the challenges and values group work can provide. Edith Grotberg developed a definition of emotional resilience as, the Human capacity to deal with, learn from, overcome, and potentially become transformed…

with clients the social worker needs to have a clear understanding of their selves in order to fully help the client to the best of their abilities. If the social worker fails to identify limitations based off of family-of-origin issues or personal issues then according to Sheafor and Horejsi (2012), “The self-awareness one develops refers to an accurate perception of one’s own beliefs, values, attitudes and habits and how they might influence decisions and behavior in social work practice”(p.…

Introduction Social work is a helping profession, whether a social worker is working one on one with a consumer recovering from a mental break, working to change policy at the governmental level or comforting someone who is suffering from a loss, helping is what social workers do (Robbins, Chatterjee & Canda, 2006). A social work practice also requires keen skills in activities like; advocating, educating, linking, managing, organizing and problem solving (Swenson, 1998). These skills are the…

of my interest in social work. As I look around my community and at what is occurring around the world, I notice the different cultures, environments, and lack of humanity. I took an interest in these categories and learned there are recurring issues within each. There is a lack of culture competency in society. Different cultures do not interact effectively with one another as they should. For example, an individual may only interact with someone from a different culture for work purposes…

modern technology in social work practice opens the door for a variety of ethical issues and possibility of malpractice suits. The issue of incorporating technology into social practice has raised so much concern that the National Association of Social Workers (NASW) and Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) decided to issue a special document that outlines specific standards. The NASW Standards for Technology and Social Work Practice (2005) was created to help guide social workers that use…

aspects of Social Work. Although the readings were challenging at times, but in class always doubts were cleared and I had an understanding as to what the author was talking about. The assignments allowed having a good understanding of a social issue and what a particular agency is doing in order to work with people currently challenged by the social issue. On the first paper we explored the social issue, on the second we dove in and interviewed a Social Worker and explore their work around the…

to increase my energy depending on the circumstance and situation involving the system in my life. How does your social situation affect the physical, intellectual, and emotional energy? Each social system in my life can increase my energy level and can deplete energy. For example, at certain points in college all my professors like to give exams,…

the surface of the titles and roles, there is a real human being inherently driven by the collection of life stories forming the basis of their behavior. As a society, that collective behavior comprised of individual life stories form the fabric of social and cultural identity. Therefore, I believe that the solution to many complex global challenges we face today require substantial consideration of the human domain. This belief and my desire to contribute to the solution are the primary…