Kadye Social Work

Kadye has to understand the family unit of every client with addiction problems and know when to encourage family to increase their expectations of the person. Additionally, she has to understand things such as anxiety and depression that her clients could be going through on a daily basis. Furthermore, she has to understand the boundaries the client has as well as her own. She needs to know what is wrong with the client and what traumas they might have gone through. She continues her knowledge of her field by taking online classes that interest her but only have to do with her job. (Bowman, K. 2017)

Every social worker needs to be open, personable, and be able to identify things about their client. Kadye does all of these in her career. Kadye
She has a history of drug abuse in her own family, her parents were abused as children, and her brother committed suicide. All of these qualities of her family related to her job and keep her motivated. Additionally, these qualities have given her a caregiver mentality which can work well with her job. My favorite quote from her about why she likes social work is “the brain is the only thing that tries to understand itself”. She wants to eventually teach or have a private practice with her social work degree. She doesn’t like how much paperwork social work includes because she has to complete paperwork on every secession and every person. She said that her profession doesn’t focus enough on the mental health of their workers especially considering they work with mental health. Her profession is too stressful without any way to release the stress which is hard on her and her coworkers. Her biggest deal breaker of her job is that she refuses to work with people who don’t like animals, kids, or are manic. She makes her job easier by working out or laying at in the field. She has her own personal therapist to help her deal with the stresses of being a social worker. (Bowman, K.