Critical social work

Another call for action regarded social workers understanding the importance of Aboriginal communities and families providing a more appropriate solution to family healing 1 (iv). This call for action is something I strongly agree with also. Having a child placed with family members is far less traumatic to the child than being placed in an unfamiliar environment with people who they have never met and sent to an unfamiliar school where they may be minority and feel misunderstood. Many of the…

their face for the day The main point of this article is it really worth it for social workers to work with…

In 2015 over 2,800 children in Scotland were found to be needing protection from some form of abuse. The named person scheme aims to prevent this. The Scottish government says that a named person will be someone who will be there for parents and their children when they need help and do not know where to go. A named person will usually be a health visitor for a pre-school child and a head teacher or guidance teacher for a child of school age. The scheme was created with the aim of overseeing…

In the social work realm we often hear the word “empowerment” frequently, as social workers our job is to not only empower our self as the article mentions but to empower others as well (Leonardsen, 2007). Empowerment is a simple but complex theory, it focuses on seeing your client’s strengths and using them to promote and facilitate the change that the client is in need of. The Author of this article goes into great detail explaining his thoughts on social workers using two perspectives, the…

being physical, cognitive, social, and emotional/ psychological. Its talk about how each of these four-functional skills in each domain. These domain skills will help a recreation therapy to be able to classify and familiar with the terminology and to have better communication in a professional care. One of the four domain I choose is social domain. Social Domain: function of the treatment use in relate to the client’s social roles, social patterns, social skill, and social support. The…

Josefa Castro is originally from Ecuador and she grew up in an immigrant family in Bushwick, a poor, Latino neighborhood in Brooklyn. This is where she learned at an early age the value of social justice to bring about a just society by challenging injustice. After working countless hours on a variety of neighborhood issues, such as drugs and prostitution, Ms. Castro was appointed Vice-President of the area’s first Neighborhood Block Association. Among many projects, she helped mobilize the…

Openness and Commitment to the Change Process The readiness for change is the need of after school programs to increase the increase the academic performance of low academic students. The change process is to help low academic students with additional help in their learning capability. In order for this change process to take action for the recommended low academic performing students is up to the participants to act on this change for the benefit of the students. “Openness to change involves…

by which social workers may improve access to home ownership is through community organizing around such an issue. Theories of community organizing such as Alinsky’s support that when enough people who are directly impacted by a social problem come together to fight for social change, they can make a big difference. By rallying a community around a cause such as homeownership, one can already begin to build or reinforce the neighborly bonds that strengthen a community and reify the social…

the field of social work because I have personally witness the struggles that less fortune individual undergo. Growing up my parent taught me many family and social values, they taught me to always help the less fortune ones, because of that my entire life I have kwon that my passion is helping others to overcome their struggles and to help them become self-sufficient. I have a clear understanding that this field brings many rewarding feelings as well as challenges. By becoming a social worker,…

I am interested in pursuing the Master’s in Social Work (MSW) program at Florida Atlantic University because I am sure that the professional training and expertise that will be provided by this program will support me in helping vulnerable population cope with their challenges. Also, having spent the last decade working in the social services field, I have come to the realization that my passion is in helping people who are less fortunate. I am currently a case manager with Aetna and I wish to…