Happiness In Social Work

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In the field of social work, happiness can be the impulse behind a great social worker. Due to copious amounts of paperwork, house visits, meetings, stress upon stress, long work hours, and all of the other minimal but crucial tasks that social workers must complete, happiness is not common, especially with upsetting cases. For social workers, happiness comes in the form of seeing clients happy who have overcome milestones or have been positively impacted.
A social worker who was a guest speaker in my introduction class told the class that she greatly cherished her client’s thank you’s after a long and tedious case, and that she held onto those memories when she became agitated or upset with her job.
Since the social work profession is stressful,

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