The Work

To educate myself and advocate for voices that often go unheard is the reason I am pursing a graduate degree in social work. Fordham University is one of the leading schools for social work in the country and feel honored by the opportunity for consideration into your program. Using tools given to me by own community (parents and family); persistence, perseverance, and drive, have guide my efforts in achieving of my professional and personal goals. These qualities have helped me navigate this…

Trace the development of your interest in the field of social work. Need powerful first statement: such as I have sat on both sides of the desk, looking for assistance and assisting others. I walked out of high school thinking I had the world in my hands. The reality was I had a tenth grade education and an attitude that life was about to change. My interest in the social work field began at the age of nineteen, while I was employed with home health agency. My responsibilities included…

Africentric mindfulness and learning call for individual and political mediations to be woven into the fabric of all social work hone endeavors by offering customers some assistance with recognizing the impacts of regulated segregation and mistreatment in their lives, sorting out all the more deliberately the distinction between the impacts of abuse and pathology, fortifying backing aptitudes, and working with customers to offer them some assistance with empowering themselves. In Conclusion,…

maintain. The use of modern technology in social work practice opens the door for a variety of ethical issues and possibility of malpractice suits. The issue of incorporating technology into social practice has raised so much concern that the National Association of Social Workers (NASW) and Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) decided to issue a special document that outlines specific standards. The NASW Standards for Technology and Social Work Practice (2005) was created to help guide…

10. Social work roles and anticipated outcomes (10 points). A. Define and describe four social worker roles you will use to address your targeted population as outlined in Chapter 1. (Place your answer underneath this REQUIRED subheading) The four social worker roles I will use to address my targeted population are; Advocate, initiator, enabler, and mediator. In social work, the role of an advocate is one of the most significant roles a social worker can undertake. According to the text,…

regard, all social work practice principles and values defined by the National Association of Social Workers (NASW). When thinking about how I, as a social worker, will integrate my personal values with social work theoretical models and social work practice principles, the values or principles that I personally tend to put more emphasis on are: dignity and worth of the person, importance of human relationships, and integrity. To me, these are imperative elements of social work practice that…

accommodate the elderly who obtain problems similar to her grandmother, she could be interested in the field of practice of the elderly and become a gerontological social worker. With the vast number of practices that a social worker can decide to work in, such as criminal justice, persons with disabilities,…

I learned to be organized at very younger age in my personal life, school and work. When I was younger, my dad would throw my shoes way if I did not put them where they belong. Being well organized has helps me out at work. I recently switched roles at work and took on a project that has been in disarray for the last five years. I started by organizing what needs to be done and give myself timeframes. I created new…

important aspect of working within the human services profession. It is important for workers to have a good understanding of not only their own, but their organisational and professional values and ethics. Values and ethics play a major role in group work, whether it is obvious to participants or not. This essay will examine firstly the group development process, how the group was formed, some of the issues that we ran into and what ethical theories were used within the group. It will then move…

Canada at large. The arena is currently in need of developing a healthy relationship between the worker, the client, family and the community the client belongs to (Platt, 2008). In social work with children, especially in the child welfare setting, client engagement is one of the crucial challenges. In all social work, practice based on a relationship is considered important (Howe, 2009). When interacting with the client, the manner of engagement and its dynamics focusing an alteration is vital…