Discuss the major reasons for your interest in the profession of social work? My main interest is helping people‚ and I feel that becoming a social worker will allow me to do so. It will allow me to get out and meet a variety of different people and it will be challenging. By being challenged in this field I believe it will aknowledge my strengths and weaknesses and help me to become a stronger person in the field of social work. I believe that every child deserves someone who cares for them
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lifestyle and working as a social worker. A successful lifestyle may mean different things to different people; this is what it means to me. In five years‚ I will be 25 years old. I have many goals I want to achieve in each aspect of my life. In my education‚ my goal is to be graduated from Sac State with a bachelor’s degree in Social Work. In this field‚ I want to gain at least 2 to 3 years of experience in the next 5 years. Currently‚ I do not know what population I want to work with‚ but I hope to have
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Methods of Social Work Social work as a profession is a product of this century. Although its roots are well established in history from the time when people 1st began to take responsibility for their neighbors through activities which were called charity‚ poor relief‚ philanthropy and social reform . Social work is to fight against Five Evils as: 1. Physical want 2. Disease 3. Ignorance 4. Squalor 5. Idleness Objective: • To remove social injustice • To relieve social injustice • To
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Introduction As social workers‚ we work with an array of different communities‚ and whether we work with children‚ families‚ adults or businesses‚ it is inventible that we will come across at least one individual who uses syringes. Whether it be for their drugs or if they are affected by a loved one’s HIV‚ Hepatitis C or Sexually Transmitted Disease (STD). People who inject drugs (PWID) are the most vulnerable group to contract HIV and 28 times higher than among the rest of the population (Avert)
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WHAT IS SOCIAL WORK? * Social Work is the professional activity of helping individuals‚ groups‚ families‚ organizations‚ and communities or society in general. Social workers help people solve problems‚ cope with them‚ and help individuals obtain needed resources in their environments. SOCIAL WORKERS: * Must graduate a school in social work with either a bachelors or master’s degree * Requires knowledge of human development and behavior * Must be knowledgeable of social‚ economic
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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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DBQ Lesson 5 The Radical Reconstruction had a large amount of impacts on the emancipated blacks and the south. The blacks were freed but were still subjected to racism‚ hate‚ and inequality. The radical republicans tried their best to fight for the rights of the freedmen‚ but at the end of the Reconstruction‚ the freedmen were still treated unfairly. An advantage of the Reconstruction is that it restored the United states into one union. Therefore‚ there were both advantages and disadvantages
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