Social Work Reflection Essay
In chapter one: Power in the People have introduced me to how much power social workers have in the world. Many of us believe that by working and helping people we are giving building ourselves but it is not only about that social workers are also building the client strength that they see on the human being. Also, there is strength perspective that demands s different way of looking at individuals, families and community. This happens when we see the opportunities and capacities of what people the environment need. Saleebey mentioned that clients become clients when someone is in need, have a deficit, problems and diseases. I totally agree with this statement because if there was no one ill or with problem who are social workers supposed
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Being an immigrant helps me remember that I have to do good for me and for my family. My mom is a single mother and raised my two sisters and I while my dad lived in the Dominican Republic. I guess you can say that the strength for her is being a single mother is motivating her to do everything that is possible to give us what we need. I appreciate my mom a lot because it takes a lot of courage to do everything on your own when everybody is not helping you enough. Growing up was hard because I did not get to have everything others kids had back when I was in middle school and in High School. I always had to translate for my mom everywhere we went and till this day she still need to get things translated. I believe that these strengths contributed to my preparation of becoming a social worker because it helped me look past everything and realized that others might feel the same way I did through out the years of living in New York. I remember one time when my mom, my sisters and I had to evacuate the building because there was a fire on top of us. We were homeless for 6 months. There I realized that more people need to be helped because there is not enough courage to stand up for whats right. People learn from the world around them and I want to be able to set a better example for the children of
Being an immigrant helps me remember that I have to do good for me and for my family. My mom is a single mother and raised my two sisters and I while my dad lived in the Dominican Republic. I guess you can say that the strength for her is being a single mother is motivating her to do everything that is possible to give us what we need. I appreciate my mom a lot because it takes a lot of courage to do everything on your own when everybody is not helping you enough. Growing up was hard because I did not get to have everything others kids had back when I was in middle school and in High School. I always had to translate for my mom everywhere we went and till this day she still need to get things translated. I believe that these strengths contributed to my preparation of becoming a social worker because it helped me look past everything and realized that others might feel the same way I did through out the years of living in New York. I remember one time when my mom, my sisters and I had to evacuate the building because there was a fire on top of us. We were homeless for 6 months. There I realized that more people need to be helped because there is not enough courage to stand up for whats right. People learn from the world around them and I want to be able to set a better example for the children of