Although I am not settled on any particular area of social work, I am most interested in working with adolescents or younger. I am open to the options that this may include. Some opportunities that I have considered working for are an adoption center or a pregnancy center that reaches out to teen mothers. Although I would like to work with children and adolescents, I do not think I have an interest in working with child protective services. I have also thought about eventually becoming a play therapist. I realize that this requires a Master’s degree, but I am willing to work with something similar to this idea for my practicum in the spring of 2017. If there are not options similar to this due to the requirement of a Master’s degree, then I
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It was fun to learn more about the different stages in life and what can be done to help prevent things. One thing that stuck out to me the most was the adverse childhood experiences (ACES), and how these things that may seem so simple, can affect someone for the rest of their life. I enjoy being able to relate people to theories. This is not always a good thing, because theories are not always accurate, but I like to see and compare how fitting they are for that person. I am registered in a class called Diverse Populations, and I am very excited about this. I love to learn about other cultures and how or what I can do to respect every individual. The course outside my major that has influenced me the most is Cultural Anthropology. I love to learn about what other cultures participate in for their daily norm. It was very interesting to learn about how the way we portray ourselves compared to how we portray other cultures. One thing that I took away from this class is to never look down on someone because of their social norm. The things that we might find strange about other cultures is not strange to them, and they probably think that the things we do as a norm is just as …show more content…
Along with listening to others and their concerns I like to know detail to stories. My greatest concern is not being enough of a help to others. As stated, I enjoy knowing details of a story, but there are times when I am just not sure what to say or ask when it comes to learning more detail, and a lot of times, there will be one piece of detail to a story that answers a lot of questions. Part of the reason that I may struggle with this is because I focus too much on using my listening skills. One way I could fix this is to just relax while working with clients. Once I feel more comfortable using the listening skills that I have been taught, questions will more than likely come more easily to
It was fun to learn more about the different stages in life and what can be done to help prevent things. One thing that stuck out to me the most was the adverse childhood experiences (ACES), and how these things that may seem so simple, can affect someone for the rest of their life. I enjoy being able to relate people to theories. This is not always a good thing, because theories are not always accurate, but I like to see and compare how fitting they are for that person. I am registered in a class called Diverse Populations, and I am very excited about this. I love to learn about other cultures and how or what I can do to respect every individual. The course outside my major that has influenced me the most is Cultural Anthropology. I love to learn about what other cultures participate in for their daily norm. It was very interesting to learn about how the way we portray ourselves compared to how we portray other cultures. One thing that I took away from this class is to never look down on someone because of their social norm. The things that we might find strange about other cultures is not strange to them, and they probably think that the things we do as a norm is just as …show more content…
Along with listening to others and their concerns I like to know detail to stories. My greatest concern is not being enough of a help to others. As stated, I enjoy knowing details of a story, but there are times when I am just not sure what to say or ask when it comes to learning more detail, and a lot of times, there will be one piece of detail to a story that answers a lot of questions. Part of the reason that I may struggle with this is because I focus too much on using my listening skills. One way I could fix this is to just relax while working with clients. Once I feel more comfortable using the listening skills that I have been taught, questions will more than likely come more easily to