My Perception Of The Field Of Social Work

My perception of the field of social work is helping people in need and providing the resource for people that need it. My first thoughts of social workers were they were caseworkers for families, but I realized they are so much more than that. Social workers are helpers, supporters, counselors and sometimes a friend for their clients. In addition, I love helping people in any way possible and that is why I wanted to become a social worker because there are so many paths I can take to help someone in need.
I have only taken one social work course, which is Seminar in Helping this class help me fully discover what a social worker really is and opened my eyes to so many things a general practitioner social worker can go through and the different …show more content…
I lost a lot of people in my life and knew a few that been beaten by their parents in middle school and high school heard stories of people I knew parents sexually assaulting them. In my junior year, one of my friends finally told me that her step dad used to sexually assault her and her mother never believed her and always beat her every time she tried to tell her what he does to her. In the result of this, she didn 't see a reason to live because her own mother did not believe her and no one else was so she wanted to take her life, and she always did. After that, at that moment after she finally was able to talk to me I realize that I want to help people like her, so it does not have to get that far for anyone wanting to harm himself or herself. I want to help someone in any way I can if that is family issues or relationship cause anything can happen. I want to be the person that people can come to, talk to, and help them find the resources to do better, and to help place children in a better home environment. I want to educate on the topic of sexual assault and rape and how it happens every. So I thought I could help by getting my criminal justice degree and use that to be an activate and get the bad people off the street, but then I had to realize that is not what I really wanted to do, it was way bigger. So that is when I decided to change my major to Social Work because I can be more hands-on and advocate for those people that are placed in situations like these. I believe being a social worker can really help people on the emotional, mentally side of