Introduction As a social worker‚ it is essential to be diverse and culturally competent for the reason that one will encounter clients with diverse backgrounds from his or her own. A client may be different due to their race‚ ethnicity‚ religion‚ sexual orientation‚ or any other factor. However‚ the social worker’s purpose is to enhance the client’s well-being while attending to his or her needs‚ as well as being sensitive to their cultural and ethnic diversity (National Association of Social Workers‚ 1999)
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* Women’s health issues * Freud * Family * Traditional; nuclear ---> 2nd wave criticized this * Rise of critical analysis of family dynamics * Workplace * Women were a great part of the work force during WW2 * Roles and characteristics assigned to genders are socially constructed * Legal inequalities * Property ownership * Business‚ housing * Divorce * Abortion laws * Family
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To be an effective and competitive social worker‚ you will have to advocate for people with no voice‚ focus on their strengths and abilities instead of problems‚ serve and uphold the population but at the same time take care of well-being. During introduction to social welfare‚ we heard from numerous social workers and the areas of social work they practice. They each gave us feedback of skills we should either have or need to obtain. That includes developing time-management‚ communication and writing
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Counciler 2. What is the name of the company you work with? Braely and Thompson 3. What are the major resonseabilites you have in this postion? With this job I have many responsibilities a main one is confidentiality o the client‚ sometimes wanted to tell others what going is what you want to do‚ exspeically if its something tragic thats happened and you want to share. Another responsibilty is communicating with the parents or gaurdians‚ I work with only kids under 10 years of age and sometimes
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Group Process Social work practitioners employ different types of strategies when working with treatment groups. These strategies are designed to meet the individual needs of each member as well as the needs of the group. The purpose of this particular group was to provide psycho-education‚ support and treatment to its members. The goal of this treatment group was to rehabilitate members and restore them to their formal level of functioning (Toseland and Rivas‚ 2011). The group was led by
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remember the steps for the members. Rules: set ground rules; Identify issues we would like to change; decide on what to work on first‚ Goals: what do we want to achieve? Explore the issues in more detail; Strategies/activities: work out ways of achieving goals. When social worker dealing with family issues has to develop ground rules for the family members. RIDGES steps are essential to social workers when sessions are undertaken with families. Ground rules include confidentiality‚ record keeping‚ working
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A sociological perspective The article I read was on how culture is involved in the social working sector in Jamaica. As the article says‚ it is known that most writers seem to agree that the word “culture” is a sort of relationship between cultural patterns of the groups of people and their survival strategies. Throughout the passage‚ the plural society theory came about. A plural society is one that is composed of various groups‚ each with its own subculture‚ and only a few culture symbols are
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Short Assignment Three: Social Work - Past and Present Times are much different than they used to be‚ however‚ the world seems to be reacting to these problems the same way they did years ago. Most days‚ the general public seems to be preoccupied with the war on terror.’ There is so much going on in this world‚ and yet it is all being categorized as one big issue. This is very similar to some events in the past‚ more specifically‚ The Great Depression. When The Great Depression happened‚ it devastated
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4. Social workers as reflective practitioners. Reflection means the ability to think clearly and effectively to make sense of complex situations. Reflection is essential for a good practice as it helps to avoid the danger of falling into habits and routines. Thus reflection promotes diversity and a right to a self-determination for the clients. Giving that everybody can make mistakes sometimes‚ reflection is a good opportunity to engage analytical skills to promote learning and think why something
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there is a lot of competition in order to progress at work. I love competition‚ but I really don’t want to be in competition with about twenty-five other social workers. You have a lot of experience. I have barley even been alive for twenty years. I think that your experience will be very useful in social work. At my practicum‚ I work in a cubical and make dozens of phone calls a day. I rally don’t like to work in a cubical‚ I love doing field work‚ its when we visit peoples homes and actually talk
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