Current Issues in Social Work

A social worker is someone that is employed to provide social services to people, especially the disadvantaged. There are many different types of social workers. There are social workers in administration policy and research. They do research for stuff like questioning diagnostics of anxiety in guardianship. There are also child, family, and school social workers. They often work with families that have had problems with abuse or lose of a home; they also work with families that have serious mental illnesses. They also respond to crisis in the class room. Children and school social workers counsel those who are dealing with stress or those that are acting out. There are also health care social workers, they work mostly in hospitals. These kinds of social workers will help aid in emotional and financial standings. Health care doesn’t just affect the body. It hurts people emotionally and financially as well. There are plenty of different kinds of social workers (Types of Social Work, Web).
In an interview with Karen Murphy, a social worker in Castle Rock Colorado I had asked, “What do you think is going to happen in the field in the next five years?” Murphy responded
Even though social workers work in different fields, and have different tasks that they focus on, they are all linked together. A children’s social worker may be helping with abusive families, while a health care social worker is helping solve problems with financial things, but they both face most of the same problems as social workers. Currently there are a few problems that social workers as a whole are facing. Some of the problems they are facing are: Overloads on cases, long hours, emotional struggles, and work lives interfering with personal and social lives.
Case overloads are due to the hard economic times. They are also occurring due to budget cuts. “The quintessential American dream has dissolved into meaning something entirely different than it once did, challenging social workers as