Essay On Social Work Profession

Social Work profession wasn’t what I was interested when I was a child. Especially, I didn’t have a really good experience with a social worker when my parents were going through a divorce and there was violence. Actually, I didn’t even know the person who accompanied my mother’s lawyer was a social worker. I just remember one of the ladies asking which parent would I choose to live with. When I heard this I was confused and upset. I didn’t want to choose one parent. Another example of a ‘bad’ social worker is the ones who takes children away from families. For instance, one of my aunt didn’t want me to speak to a school’s counselor. In case, I will be taken away for what I may say about my parent’s separation. Of course, both social worker …show more content…
They would turn their head questionably because they know that this profession requires a lot of empathy, compassion and more heart. And those who doesn’t know this profession wouldn’t understand my roles when I explain it neither. This is one of the stressors but the biggest stressors for me is burn-out and moral distress. For instances, I didn’t want to specialize in child welfare because I didn’t want to burn-out quickly. However, I am discovering burn-out can happen regardless of heavy case loads of child welfare. It can happen for me if I am not balancing my self-care. This also pertain to moral distress. For example, I should choose an area of interest in social work profession so I wouldn’t conflict my bias or values onto others like addictions. In which, I should be aware of my own boundaries and values and how I could be supportive for a person with a history of drug addictions. Fortunately, I took ethics and substance misuse classes for my social work degree. I learned that I could protect my values and boundaries by being more inform about other social workers who could help in my place and more knowledge of resources or practices or therapies that could help if I choose to work with someone with addiction to