Personal Essay
Life Experience, Education, and Volunteer Experience
Life Experience All throughout my childhood, I watched forms of physical, alcohol and drug abuse. Whenever I think about my childhood, these memories are what I flash back to almost 90 percent of the time. At the time, I did not understand. However, after being told the underlying issues as to why my mother was acting in such a way, I was able to forgive her, as I now had an understanding. These memories were a motive for me to pursue a career as a Social Worker. For me, a major role of a social worker is to help a client empower themselves. I watched someone for so long suffer from self-inflicting behaviors that are caused by a deep underlying issue. From this experience, …show more content…
What that means to me is, being able to work on an interdisciplinary team and providing ethical support to patients and their families during times of illness. The National Association of Social Workers put together the Code of Ethics, with leading principles which make sure social workers share their knowledge, to all individuals, in a nonjudgmental manner. The social work profession is about meeting the basic needs of all people, in particular those who are vulnerable, oppressed, and have lower socio-economic statuses. As a medical social worker, I will hopefully get to work with a number of diverse individuals, and from a wide variety of cultures. It will be my duty to provide services and address every individual’s needs on a micro, mezzo and macro level. This means, being able to provide case management, counseling, assessments, and coordination in a strengths based fashion to ensure my clients and their families will be able to function in fully society. Those who are vulnerable, oppressed, and live in poverty may need a little more support and empowerment compared to other populations. However, that does not mean that they are any weaker than other populations. The populations who I strive to help and change lives of are those who suffer from lower socio-economic statuses, or who are vulnerable or …show more content…
As a medical social worker, this would include discharge planning and ethical decision making with other medical professionals. For a client to be able to improve their well-being for when they are discharged, it would be my responsibility to help create a discharge plan with the client, in order for a successful start by themselves outside of the healthcare environment. It would also be my responsibility to provide my client with adequate information about community resources they can connect to, so they can hopefully continue to live with or connect to any help if they need to. There also needs to be a good level of trust between the client and social worker in order for the client to feel comfortable while working together. As a social worker, I believe one should also be culturally competent and socially diverse. As part of being a social worker, it is important to be considerate and knowledgeable of the environmental forces that create, contribute to, and address problems in daily living situations. As a social worker, I believe it is important to do research, be knowledgeable in the field, and of the clients that you are working with. I also believe that if one understands the different cultures and understands social diversity, a social worker will be able to better advocate for their
Life Experience, Education, and Volunteer Experience
Life Experience All throughout my childhood, I watched forms of physical, alcohol and drug abuse. Whenever I think about my childhood, these memories are what I flash back to almost 90 percent of the time. At the time, I did not understand. However, after being told the underlying issues as to why my mother was acting in such a way, I was able to forgive her, as I now had an understanding. These memories were a motive for me to pursue a career as a Social Worker. For me, a major role of a social worker is to help a client empower themselves. I watched someone for so long suffer from self-inflicting behaviors that are caused by a deep underlying issue. From this experience, …show more content…
What that means to me is, being able to work on an interdisciplinary team and providing ethical support to patients and their families during times of illness. The National Association of Social Workers put together the Code of Ethics, with leading principles which make sure social workers share their knowledge, to all individuals, in a nonjudgmental manner. The social work profession is about meeting the basic needs of all people, in particular those who are vulnerable, oppressed, and have lower socio-economic statuses. As a medical social worker, I will hopefully get to work with a number of diverse individuals, and from a wide variety of cultures. It will be my duty to provide services and address every individual’s needs on a micro, mezzo and macro level. This means, being able to provide case management, counseling, assessments, and coordination in a strengths based fashion to ensure my clients and their families will be able to function in fully society. Those who are vulnerable, oppressed, and live in poverty may need a little more support and empowerment compared to other populations. However, that does not mean that they are any weaker than other populations. The populations who I strive to help and change lives of are those who suffer from lower socio-economic statuses, or who are vulnerable or …show more content…
As a medical social worker, this would include discharge planning and ethical decision making with other medical professionals. For a client to be able to improve their well-being for when they are discharged, it would be my responsibility to help create a discharge plan with the client, in order for a successful start by themselves outside of the healthcare environment. It would also be my responsibility to provide my client with adequate information about community resources they can connect to, so they can hopefully continue to live with or connect to any help if they need to. There also needs to be a good level of trust between the client and social worker in order for the client to feel comfortable while working together. As a social worker, I believe one should also be culturally competent and socially diverse. As part of being a social worker, it is important to be considerate and knowledgeable of the environmental forces that create, contribute to, and address problems in daily living situations. As a social worker, I believe it is important to do research, be knowledgeable in the field, and of the clients that you are working with. I also believe that if one understands the different cultures and understands social diversity, a social worker will be able to better advocate for their