Professional Supervision in Social Work 1. Introduction 1.1. The 21st Century Review of Social Work‚ the various restructurings across Scottish Local Authorities and the range of different arrangements across voluntary and private providers has led to a debate about the meaning and role of Social Work supervision. 1.2. The term supervision is widely interpreted and often misunderstood in its traditional context of directly monitoring‚ observing or training. The focus in this paper is on
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Department of Social Work SW1101E: Social Work: A Heart-Head-hand Connection Topic of Portfolio: Multi-Stressed families- Child Abuse in Singapore Date/Time of Submission: 30th October 2013/ 3PM For the entirety of this report‚ I will be focusing on Multi-stressed families but more specifically I will be tackling the issue of child abuse in Singapore. Child abuse is not at all restricted to the conventional form of physical abuse in our society any longer. Child abuse can be classified
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SOCIAL WORK: PERSONAL STATEMENT. Having spent the last six years studying in the social care field‚ I have come to realise my passion in helping and assisting people who may be going through difficult stages in their life. So far‚ I have worked for a home care and a nursery. As a nursery assistant my role was to care and assist young children‚ aged between 6 months to 5 years old. On Mondays and Thursday I was planning and organising fun and intellectual activities such as drawing‚ painting
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I moved to Copenhagen 1.5 years ago‚ and I knew it was going to be a time of transition and adaptation. When my Masters in Social Work and therapy licenses weren’t reciprocated fully‚ I chose to dive head first into web development. I decided to make things happen rather than to wait for them to happen. Timing is important in decision making‚ but acting decisively despite uncertainty and ambiguity is also necessary. We live politically‚ economically‚ and technologically uncertain time. This is what
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From high school till retirement‚ you work. Over half of your life is spent working and with that comes relationships‚ new environments‚ communications‚ and gender roles can all come into play. After observing six of my coworkers for 24 hours I found many psychological happenings within the group. I have worked with my coworkers for almost a year now and some of us have grown strong relationships‚ others are still somewhat outcasted from others. Our boss clearly shows favoritism‚ but still treats
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A social worker helps individuals solve and cope with problems in their everyday life. A social worker deals with a range of individuals such as abused children‚ neglected elderly‚ or people with disabilities. A social worker works fulltime and sometimes may work holidays and weekends in order to meet with a client. Social workers hold about 649‚300 jobs in 2014 and the state and local government employ about 29% of these individuals. The lowest percentage employed was in nursing homes and residential
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FRQ’S Psychodynamic therapy is aimed to reveal a client’s unconscious in order to relieve stress or tension. This therapy could be used on Matilda because by if they could reveal the reason of her phobia she may be able to overcome it herself. This type of therapy was founded by Sigmund Freud. Behavior therapy is therapy focused on only observable behaviors of a person and works towards changing those behaviors. This therapy could help Matilda because they target her behavior which is the thing
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Theory of Community SCC and the community Pittsburg are similar to the Social Systems Theory. The Social Systems Theory emphasizes how the various social subsystems within the community interact with each other. This theory mentions the inputs and the outputs of the community (Kirst-Ashman‚ 2014). SCC and other agencies work together in the community to provide resources to help the citizens of the community. The outputs are to empower their clients to become productive citizens of the community
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strengths can positively impact our clients lives. As a social worker‚ it’s our duty to help seek strength in our clients. There are seven important principles of the strengths perspective that I think would be useful to seeking out a client’s strengths. Using these principles‚ can empower our client to achieve greatness. Asking very detail questions about the clients’ current situations‚ gives answers on how to better treat them. I like that‚ as a social worker we focus more on the greater good rather than
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Social Control Theory vs. Social Learning Theory Abstract Social control theory and social learning theory are two theories that suggest why deviant behavior is chosen to be acted upon by some individuals and not others. Both take a different stance on the issue. Social control theory suggests people’s behavior is based on their bonds to society‚ if they have strong bonds to society they conform and if not they have a tendency to act out or become involved in criminal
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