Social work

My personal understanding of the social work profession is quite vast. Social workers are making a difference in people 's lives by helping people solve and cope with problems in their everyday lives. The most important aspect for social workers in my opinion is to promote positive change. We help provide opportunities and resources for children, adults, elderly and families that weren’t there before. Social workers do what they can to assist individuals, but they also understand that the…

“Generalist social work provides an integrated and multileveled approach for meeting the purpose of social work. Practitioners acknowledge the interplay of personal and collective issues, prompting them to work with a variety of human systems—societies, communities, neighborhoods, complex organizations, formal groups, families, and individuals—to create changes that maximize human system functioning.” (Miley, O 'Melia, Dubois, 2013).This means that generalist social workers work directly with…

The current trend in social work is one characterized by a shift towards strength-based approaches. Group work has long been used to alleviate various illnesses as well as substance abuse disorders. Support groups for people suffering from trauma, refugees, caregivers and patients suffering from various medical problems are also common. This paper illustrates the use of a strength-based approach to alleviate the conditions of single-parents suffering from several psychological stressors. I had…

documentation that is of great importance in the field of social work. Many social workers, rely on the psychosocial in order to provide the highest level of service for their clients. One of the functions of the psychosocial is first examining the whole person; this process is called assessment. The social worker looks on every area of concern for the client whether psychological, sociocultural, spiritual, lifestyle factors and economical. The social worker then formulates a plan to address…

motive for me to pursue a career as a Social Worker. For me, a major role of a social worker is to help a client empower themselves. I watched someone for so long suffer from self-inflicting behaviors that are caused by a deep underlying issue. From this experience,…

Description: For this paper I interviewed my sister who is a Social Worker; however, her job is very similar to what I will be encountering as a Marriage and Family therapist. I interviewed her for 2 hours and the paper took 3 hours to write, revise, and edit. Social Work Interview I chose to interview my sister, Brittany, who graduated from Brigham Young University-Idaho in 2006 with a Bachelor’s degree in Social Work. Although my major is Marriage and Family, I chose to interview my sister…

Assessment in social work is a crucial tool that social workers use to obtain and analyse information from the service user or anyone integral to the care and wellbeing of the service user. Social workers must do this in order to identify and respond to risk, and also to determine the wants and needs of the individual and their care givers. As a social worker undertaking assessments you should always be self-aware and take into account the diversity of each individual. There is a vast spectrum…

When social workers are confronted between choices of two equally unwelcome alternative conflicts involving a difficult moral decision, it is known as an ethical dilemma (Chenoweth & McAuliffe, 2015, p. 73). Ethical dilemmas arise when the principles of the Code of Ethics and the Code of Conduct’s guidelines and boundaries have been crossed, resulting in dual relationships (Reamer, 2003). But as will be discussed, social workers continue to face barriers that exist within the Human Service…

When I first learned about doing this assignment I instantly thought it would be pretty interesting. In the social work profession, you might be tasked with reaching out to individuals or different agencies about different things. Even though this assignment doesn’t compare to anything you would be doing in the social work world when individuals lives are in your hand at times. This Assignment still getting you into that mindset that you need to reach out to others for questions or just…

I was working with the family of a child who was living with the grandparents whom had a residency order. The direct work with the child had been ongoing for approximately 10 months and I was the third worker supporting the child and family. It was agreed by myself and my agency supervisor that the point had been reached to cease involvement with the family as it was felt that the agency was unable to offer any further services. The termination date was planned to coincide with a Team Around…