Social Worker Future

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As a future social worker it will affect in the approach the social worker takes with Native American youth which will be RFL ,RFL-A and the rational worldview. It has also help the social worker better understand the perspective of the American Native youth background. In addition it will effect on the aspects that the social worker focus on and not generalize this population with Westerners. A strategy that the social worker is going to used for future practice is the therapeutic group circles. According to author Brown “everything that a native does in a circle, that is because of the Power of the World always works in circles,…”(Brown,1964). That is power in the way Native American perceive circle groups, and the social worker is going

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