“Whap!” A spiraling red dodge ball crashes into my face and suddenly I am awake. The outcries from the eighth-grade girls around me pull me back into the packed room full of 200 middle schoolers. As I look around I realize there is no place I would rather spend my Friday mornings than volunteering with somewhat smelly middle schoolers as a Campus Life leader. Here‚ I discovered my passion for working with middle school students. They helped me discover that I wanted to change my major from Elementary
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RADICAL SOCIAL WORK AND SOCIAL ACTION SOCIAL WORK SEMINAR PAPER SUBMITTED BY SANDEEP CHAURASIA BASW FINAL YEAR STUDENT ROLL NO. 07 AT SCHOOL OF RURAL DEVELOPMENT TATA INSTITUTE OF SOCIAL SCIENCES TULJAPUR‚ OSMANABAD RADICAL SOCIAL WORK AND SOCIAL ACTION ABSTRACT “There are no rules for revolution any more than there are rules for love or rules for happiness‚ but there are rules for radicals who want to change their world”………… Saul D. Alinsky‚ 1971. Above statement has the key to change
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treatment available. This personal experience strongly influenced my fascination with different medications and how they work. As a teenager I would read the patient information packets and try to understand the mechanisms involved. I’m certain that this contributed to my interest in healthcare and science and led me to become a Biochemistry and Pre-Pharmacy major. It also led me to seek a job at a local pharmacy while in high school. I have been fortunate enough to work alongside pharmacists since
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manager working with children. Most of us work under organizations and follow their rules and policies. However I feel that these rules and policies are not client centered. As a practitioner I would continually work with my clients to bring about change so that they can reach goals and go back out into the community and live productive lives. I honestly did not use motivational interviewing techniques because I was not trained on them. Many organizations that work with clients diagnosed with severe and
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as to whether patients are getting the best from their medicines and would like to take a step forward in order to help to improve the system that I will be working in. Many activities that are not related to my work also opened different roads for me and continue to cultivate in my personal growth. As the vice president of the Punjabi Students Association (PSA) and experience volunteering at the Boys and Girls Club of Calgary‚ I have taken on key leadership roles and acquired some of the skills that
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The Importance of Boundaries Professional boundaries in social work and other helping professions provide limits in therapeutic relationships‚ but boundaries are also important in other kinds of relationships. Depending on one’s upbringing and experience‚ setting boundaries in relationships may be easier for some people to set than others. All healthy relationships have boundaries. This is the line where one person ends and someone else begins. Boundaries in relationships can be likened to boundaries
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course‚ my impression on the field of Social Work embraces that this fields rests far more diverse and incriminated into society than I previously thought; “Not only do they help the individuals cope with the situation at hand‚ they advocate for them and seek out valuable resources and other means of support for the affected person(s)” (XXX). Prior to this course‚ I detained a misconception that social workers predominantly counseled individuals‚ when in reality‚ social workers integrate collaboration
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Although they get paid‚ most of the social workers only want to help other without waiting for nothing in exchange. They experience many problems‚ both with the people they work with and with themselves. According to the article within the Houston Chronicle “Problems Faced by Social Workers” by Clayton Browne‚ social work “can certainly offer emotional rewards‚ but social workers often report low job satisfaction and suffer a high burnout rate”(Browne)
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Advocacy in relation to social work Advocacy can be defined as ‘pleading the case of another’ or as a means of transferring power back to the client to enable them to control their own affairs. Social workers interview their clients and sometimes liaise with other professionals in order to assess their needs and draw up a plan of action. When a social worker takes on a case‚ the first thing they have to do is make an assessment‚ that is‚ decide on the appropriate course of action. It may be a question
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orthodontist had a vision of what my crooked teeth could become‚ I began to develop an interest in oral health and the ways in which dentists and orthodontists can have such a massive impact on the quality of people’s lives. Work Experience I have undertaken three weeks of work experience at both NHS and private practices. I was particularly interested in endodontics; I was amazed by the patience required whilst drilling through a tooth to create an access cavity‚ and the precision and dexterity needed
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