Essay On Reflection In Social Work

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My self-reflection paper will give you an in depth idea about my first placement in January. I will go into details about my interests, readiness, learning goals and placement search process. I have created five learning goals that I would like to accomplish at my first placement. That is to learn how to be a social service worker through my experiences with my first placement. I will be discussing why I want to become a social service worker and which social/populations I would be interested in and why. The many Interests that I have chosen through this program will be discussed in a micro, macro and mezzo continuum. My readiness for my placement will be discussed in how I am prepared for this as well as if I have any fears or concerns and including the challenges that I am anticipating. But I have learned many strategies from my program that have shown me ways to deal …show more content…
The social issues and population I would like to work with are immigrants with no employment. The reason why I want to work with immigrants with no employment is because many immigrants cannot find work so they are unemployed or forced to work hard labor which is mostly dangerous. I want to help them get work at the same time in decent places that will also treat them with respect. My interests lie along in a micro, macro and mezzo continuum is that I would work one on one with all my clients to get know their skill sets and background education. I will look for work that they will be able to use some of the skills from their past careers and build on their education. I want to do this because I believe many of their skills they have learned back home are being wasted when they come to Canada and are not placed or able to work with these skill sets. So by allowing them to use it at their jobs would be fulfilling to them and their employers as well would benefit there new community and enrich the Canadian