social workKathleen Howard Mary Lou Mires Reading 6 December 2011 The life of a Social Worker The most important thing about being a social worker that people have is passion for wanting to help people. Especially if you want to help them solve there problems. You must have the right kind of attitude (the kind of attitude that says I’m the boss I’m the one in charge).You also need lots of patience to be a Social Worker because of the high levels of stress and mixed emotions
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The role of the health and social care worker Outcome 1 - Understand working relationships in social care setting 1. Working relationships: these are relationships that are formed whilst within the workplace‚ such as work colleagues‚ and it is necessary to maintain a professional nature whilst at work. It involves the concepts of teamwork‚ working with colleagues towards common goals of which is set out with the companies agreed ways of working‚ and therefore sharing same goals and purposes. Personal
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Standard 1 Role of the health and social care worker | Questions: |1.1 Know your main responsibilities to an individual you support | What are your main responsibilities to the individuals you support and in your role? 1. Maintain contact with the clients to make sure that they are alright. 2. Prompt clients to live independently and maintain a tenancy. 3. Supporting
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Social workers and counsellors date back to the late 1800. The professions have seen many advances to reflect what obtains to date. From as early as inception the debate exists with regards to the similarities and differences between the two professions. Even with much research and the changes which both experienced they seemed to have become more intertwined making them more difficult to separate. As a result the early history of both professions‚ theoretical framework‚ underpinning ethics and operational
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1.) If I were Maddy’s social worker I would suggest that she would get involved with cognitive behavioral therapy. I would reassure her that this therapy would help her to wrap her head around the negative thoughts and compulsions as well as obsessions. The goal would be to change her behavior‚ so that she could participate in normal daily activities again. It may also be important to look into when the symptoms OCD began. It is possible that there is something that happened in her life that she
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Awareness and knowledge is a type of challenge faced by someone. This is when someone for example an old person isn’t aware of what is available for them‚ this includes funding and moving into a care home. Awareness and knowledge is a challenge which can be overcome by using an educational information material. The health carer should sit down with the patient and inform him or her about the funding help which is available for them. Or the health carer could just give the patient a leaflet or tell
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An experience that I will make me an effective social worker is volunteering at York County Children’s Advocacy Center (YCAC). The YCAC’s main focus is to assure that victims of child abuse are not re-victimized by systems who are supposed to protect them. In the center they have a group of team members who receive referrals from agencies such as Children and Youth to conduct forensic interviews and medical examination as needed. The center also provides Pet therapy for the children who come in
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behave differently and use different body language‚ if you’re in a bad mood you can show your emotions and feelings a lot more than you can in your working relationships. Q 1.2 Describe different working relationships in social care settings? A 1.2 In the health and social care setting there are many different working relationship‚ Doctors‚ Colleagues‚ service users and their families. For each of these different relationships you would develop a different type of relationship. You would
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Social justice‚ it is a right everyone deserves yet not everyone receives. Our world today faces numerous and wide range of issues; including but not limited to health care and educational rights‚ to gender and racial equality‚ as well as waste management and illegal immigration. To be completely honest‚ I am indecisive as to where I stand under this immense social justice umbrella. The one thing I am certain of‚ as I mentioned before‚ is that social justice is something everyone deserves. I believe
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Post Module Assignment Ph.D (MOTI) Eskom Project Management Program (2008) MODULE 1: SELF‚ OTHER AND SOCIAL CONTEXTS Compiled by Kavitha Prag 11 March 2008 TABLE OF CONTENTS 1 Introduction 1 2 SELF‚ LEARNING STYLES AND REFRAMING 1 2.1 Kolb Learning Styles 2 3 Context of Learning in The Cost Engineering Department 7 4 Learning Styles within the Cost Engineering Department 8 5 The Development Plan 10 5.1 The Expert 10 5.2 The Novice 10 6 conclusion 11 7 References 11
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