Social Work Skills Analysis

Describe how you have used the five skills noted about to navigate your interactions with clients. This may be a case where a question of treatment led to conflict between your personal values and the profession 's values, or it may be a case where a client 's value or prejudices were out of alignment with your own values.

The values of the social work profession are to ground and guide clinicians in their practice with clients. These values have helped me to be more deliberate in my own practice when engaging in the following basic social work skills; client engagement, assessment, contracting, intervention and client termination. Prior to this course and my social work foundations, I was not aware of how much my own value may influence …show more content…
One of the difficulties I have consistently experienced with clients is their dependency on the organization and people that work in the field. Often times many of my clients have been involved with these systems for long periods of time, so they become dependent on workers doing their work for them. One value that is very important to me is empowerment. All of the tools I use with my clients is from a strength based empowerment model. Many of these clients have worked with organizations and systems that provide them with services to temporarily fix their problems right now but sometimes neglect to teach and prepare them with tools to use once the services are terminated so they come back. These types of practices enable the clients from expecting more of themselves and their future because they are used to someone else doing the work. When I try to have clients dig deeper within themselves and what they are capable of, I am often met with resistance. My goal as a clinician is to help my clients recognize their own strengths and help them gain the tools necessary to advocate for …show more content…
The reinforcement I receive in class gives me further affirmation that I am meant to work in this field. While all of these values I resonate with, the three that are of the utmost importance are social justice, dignity and worth of a person. They mean the most to me because I believe these three are a core piece in our practice where we show our humanity. My own value along with the professional values of the social worker industry has highly affected my practice as a social worker. Being someone who was often on the receiving end of services its very important for me to treat people with the same dignity and respect that I would have liked to receive from a service provider. Theses values allow me to remove any personal judgment that may arise in the client, clinician relationship and help me focuses on what’s important when working with clients, which is meeting the needs of my client to the best of my abilities. (this is repetitive of your response in the first question. Reword it so it does not sound so