Are there any expectations of yourself, your agency, or your university that you are concerned about meeting? What can you do to successfully meet those objectives? The expectations that I have for myself are learning to integrate theory into practice and that I gain the experience from the practicum that will prepare me to work with clients and the different types of client systems depending on that particular agency. In addition, the practicum prepares us to gain experience as students and have confidence in our abilities. To be competent students and eventually social workers we need to gain experience from doing things, observing and learning from others, and most importantly ask questions because all of these things make us successful
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As a student I can meet those objectives by representing myself ethically, professionally, and by learning and doing the tasks that are required and using the skills that are necessary to be effective in practice when working with clients. (Garthwait, 2014, p.11-13)
If you were a client of your practicum agency, what would you expect of your social worker? What would you expect of your practicum student? If I was a client of the practicum agency, I would expect the social worker to be professional, competent, and knowledgeable and meet the standards that are expected of the social worker. In addition, I would expect that the social worker who has many roles would have the knowledge and skills to know what interventions, theories, and models to use for helping clients individually and continue to learn new methods that may help clients or residents in the future. (Garth wait, 2014, …show more content…
Decisions regarding what the resident wants versus the family, insurance issues could provide ethical dilemmas, end-of-life decisions, power of attorney and the client or resident and many others. In addition, many decisions should be made ahead of time so families do not end up having ethical dilemmas when making such decisions, however, I feel most ethical dilemmas relate to these types of issues, however a social worker also needs to understand the laws and standards that are put in place. In addition, because there are many different ethical dilemmas that could occur it is important to be educated about such matters and understand the law and the rights of the client and so forth. A social worker working in a nursing home needs to be educated about insurance, agency policies, and all the laws that apply to the client and there care and so on.
How will you know what social work theories and models are being used in your
As a student I can meet those objectives by representing myself ethically, professionally, and by learning and doing the tasks that are required and using the skills that are necessary to be effective in practice when working with clients. (Garthwait, 2014, p.11-13)
If you were a client of your practicum agency, what would you expect of your social worker? What would you expect of your practicum student? If I was a client of the practicum agency, I would expect the social worker to be professional, competent, and knowledgeable and meet the standards that are expected of the social worker. In addition, I would expect that the social worker who has many roles would have the knowledge and skills to know what interventions, theories, and models to use for helping clients individually and continue to learn new methods that may help clients or residents in the future. (Garth wait, 2014, …show more content…
Decisions regarding what the resident wants versus the family, insurance issues could provide ethical dilemmas, end-of-life decisions, power of attorney and the client or resident and many others. In addition, many decisions should be made ahead of time so families do not end up having ethical dilemmas when making such decisions, however, I feel most ethical dilemmas relate to these types of issues, however a social worker also needs to understand the laws and standards that are put in place. In addition, because there are many different ethical dilemmas that could occur it is important to be educated about such matters and understand the law and the rights of the client and so forth. A social worker working in a nursing home needs to be educated about insurance, agency policies, and all the laws that apply to the client and there care and so on.
How will you know what social work theories and models are being used in your