The Work

social issues and population I would like to work with are immigrants with no employment. The reason why I want to work with immigrants with no employment is because many immigrants cannot find work so they are unemployed or forced to work hard labor which is mostly dangerous. I want to help them get work at the same time in decent places that will also treat them with respect. My interests lie along in a micro, macro and mezzo continuum is that I would work one on one with all my clients to get…

Working with children and families is one of the most popular areas in the field of social work (Ritter, 2009). One reason for this is because the area offers so many career options. A social worker who chooses to focus on child welfare may devote themselves to Child Protection casework and investigating, foster care casework, child welfare researching, school social work, and many more. However, all these professions have the same goal of ensuring the safety and success of vulnerable children.…

welfare in Canada has shaped the social work profession over the past century. York university recognizes that to make progress moving forward, one must analyze the past and make changes accordingly. Acknowledging the historical and cultural context of certain events is one of the key components of York University’s dominant framework of critical practice. Historically speaking, many events occurred that have been influential in the growth of Canadian social work. The Great Depression in the…

plan, there were moments where I would be so attentive to the puzzle that no words could break the trance. Sixteen years later, I find myself silently drawn towards the puzzle that remains to be our very existence. With a Bachelors Degree in Social Work, I have successfully found the key to helping…

My perception of the field of Social Work is helping people in need and providing the resources for people that need assistances. My first thoughts of social workers were caseworkers for families, but I realized social workers are so much more than that. Social workers are helpers, supporters, counselors, and sometimes a friend for their clients. I love helping people in any way possible and that is why I wanted to become a social worker. There are multiple paths I can take to help someone in…

Log 1 Nancy Mickelson Dynamics of Racism & Oppression Simmons School of Social Work Log 1 Week 4 Self reflection recording exercise: I looked back at the questions I had answered and then reviewed the recording I had made in response to the questions. What I had heard from myself was more than I expected. I heard that I didn 't view myself as a racist or view people as different by their color or where they…

become a social worker. During my Patient Care Technician clinical at Ben Taub Hospital, I found that I am capable of dealing calmly, sensitively and supportively with people in fraught and stressful situations. With this in mind, I believe the Social Work course would best suit me because as it would allow me to use those skills in order to help and support people. My goal is to continue…

search my soul to understand how to live in the “moment” while still planning for the future. I begin to understand this process when I began individual therapy. I wanted to give that person my undivided attention, my professionalism, and my social work competencies and experiences. I begin to understand and feel that “place” within myself. I believe I was scared, I had the person’s life in my hand, and God made me responsible for a soul for 60 minutes to offer the best of myself. In the spring,…

regards to communication between service users and social workers. good communication skills are at the heart of effective social work practice and in this assignment i am going to be discussing the various types of communication skills which are of paramount importance when it comes to social workers. non-verbal communication skills are an extremely integral part of social work as people are often totally unaware of the non-verbal behaviour they use and therefore it makes a social workers job…

To be able to give a voice to the voiceless is the most meaningful, humble and beautiful experience I can ever do in my life. Unlike most social workers, I did not grow up knowing that social work is what I wanted to do. Instead, the only thing I knew for sure of was an innate need to make a positive influence in other people’s lives. Starting from a young age, life never came easy; with a broken home and living in poverty in a single parent household. I became a single mother at the age of 15…