Reflective Essay On A Missing Home

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It is a known belief among people from low income areas that social workers only care about taking peoples children away so it’s best reassure her that it would not be my intent or focus to take her children away from her and to show her the same level of respect that anyone with a normal education may receive. I believe that by demonstrating an understanding of her situation and exhibiting a positive attitude towards her goals can develop a mutually beneficial relationship between us though at the same time maintaining the professional distance to avoid getting to close to effectively execute my duties.

By showing her genuine empathy and helping her to imagine how far she has come and how far she can go I think will help cultivate an environment of trust. It can also open her mind to the
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It also frees them and helps them reclaim a more realistic outlook at life which is very progressive and healthy for their mental state (Martinez-Lewi, 2008). Precious came to this conclusion on her own in the end. At the end of the book for she leaves with her children despite her mother’s attempts of begging her to come back home, a deserving end to a book about rediscovery and the resilience of the human spirit in the face of adversity. Hopefully her story and others like her do not end there but rather start afresh from that point.

My View Point
A point that can never be over-emphasized is that as a social worker it is never our intent or priority to broadcast such scandalous cases it is strictly out of the question and goes against my work ethics. When a victim opens up to me in my capacity as a social worker, I cannot misuse that position to display a vulnerable person challenges. It is simply gross misconduct. On the other hand if all precaution is taken to protect the abused identity I think it is a misconduct to withhold a story that is worth telling, so that other may

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