Strengths And Weaknesses Of A Generalist Social Work

This class along with my other social work classes has made me develop a unique perspective on social work. The class is not on just learning how to help others it teaches how to recognize your weaknesses and how to develop your individual skills to become a competent social worker. This article will give some insight into some of my weaknesses along with my thoughts about the social work career, illustrate what direction or target group area that I would like to pursue, detail general information about generalist within the social field and give a glimpse of how social workers perform these task, while following a compiled National Association of Social Workers (NASW) code of ethics.
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This social method contains a lot of diversity streaming from private and public observations, knowledge in skill levels for a variety of different social concepts, while remaining ethically sound and the capability to use multilevel and multimethod (Bowlin, 2014). As discussed in our text book Social Work and Social Welfare the author discusses how there are different types or levels that generalist social work take place; such as, individual and family, group level, and organization and community level. The individual level involves a single person or a single family, which can put the social worker into a more one-on-one situation and a more personal atmosphere. Group level though similar consist of different types of people with different cultural background, ethnicity etc.… but usually have a common core problem per say; such as, alcoholism or drug abuse. It takes the social worker away from being personal to more of a guide. Organization and community level involves situations like community or legislation events such as racial profiling. A generalist social worker is expected to be able to perform in all three levels of expertise (Berg-Weger,
These six values are as follows: Service, Social Justice, Dignity and Worth of the Person, Importance of Human Relationships, Integrity, and Competence. In my opinion the most important value within the code of ethics is service. It is the basis of which social work was established upon. It is the principle that is in core of most of us. The desire to help others and to fulfill their needs and to be of service to them, it gives a feeling of self-worth. It is the reason we study to gain the knowledge to learn more and better ways to help individuals and groups to have a better and more enhanced life by addressing issues and conditions that are causing distress (Lancaster, n.d.). Along with these core values exist standards, one such standard is the responsibility of the social worker ethically to their client. It is similar to all service industries, you serve the customer. However, there are times when the social worker has to subside their obligations to their client because society overall supersedes the needs of the client; especially, when it effects the wellbeing of another human. This leads to another common challenge and that is with the respect in dignity and worth of the client in general knowing that they have abused a child or done some other hideous crime. Circumstances such as this are where the social worker would fall back on the code of