“Social work is the professional activity of helping individuals‚ groups‚ or communities enhance or restore their capacity for social functioning and creating societal conditions favorable to this goal” (Kirst-Ashman). There are multiple fields of practice in social work; each addressing a certain population or specific need. My experience visiting four social agencies gave me a better insight on what it really means to work as a licensed social worker. To complete my field survey I interviewed
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Social Media Sabotaging or Helping Real Communication In a society where social media is growing daily and becoming our main source of communication‚ we often find ourselves thinking about what social media is actually doing for us. Is it helping us create something new and amazing (like talking to multiple people from all around the world simultaneously on the internet) that we get to be part of‚ or is it hindering our communication skills and putting a crutch on our lives? The real question
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Access to social work assignment Article 1 – Children and families bill Q1. Is it right that because the government doesn’t want to fund the care system‚ that our most vulnerable children and young people in care are being forced out of their foster homes at the age of 18‚ losing their valuable support system? Q2. Shouldn’t young people’s futures be prioritised over the costs of their support? Q3. It is my belief that every child should have a good strong start in life‚ is it right that those
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position as a Social Worker it needs the ability to identify and balance values of benefits and harms‚ taking into consideration where one’s own value base impacts on the decision making and where we can support people to achieve the best outcomes‚ using professional rather than personal values. However we are guided by the purpose of the organisation we are employed in‚ as well as the legal and policy parameters of our society. Additionally‚ it would appear that the focus of social
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with her job. (Bowman‚ K. 2017) Every social worker needs to be open‚ personable‚ and be able to identify things about their client. Kadye does all of these in her career. Kadye
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Ethics and Values in social work There is a direct link between values and actions. When we perform an action we‚ and the act itself‚ may be judged according to the values expressed through that action (Shardlow 1989:p2) This assignment will discuss this statement by outlining how professional interpretation emerges from the way dilemmas between different values are resolved. The assignment considers a number of social work values including ‘Respect to persons’ and ‘Self-Determinism’
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major components of social work education and a major determinant of its quality. A key aspect of the Learning process in the fieldwork placement is the exposition of practice encounters to the students’ critical reflection. Given the importance of the process of ’reflection’ or ’reflective learning’‚ a qualitative study based on the reflective logs of social work students was conducted to explore the meaning of social work field education and the learning experiences of social work students during their
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Poverty is often used as an indicator of social and economic development. Statistics seem to suggest that the number of people living in poverty in the UK is rising (Mantle and Backwith‚ 2010; Parekh‚ MacInnes and Kenway‚ 2010). In the general public or media poverty tends to be advertised as hunger‚ homelessness and gruesome living environments‚ where basic needs are in severe deficit. The concept of poverty is generally presented as an issue of underdeveloped countries. Consequently the picture
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The career that I want to pursue is social work. I enjoy talking to people‚ helping them with their problems‚ and try to make their bad days better; I already have some trained skills‚ which I have learned in places that I did some volunteer work in the past. I also worked babysitting children of different ages and tutored others in some basic subjects. My experience of having my own small business plus all the volunteer work in the places I mentioned above‚ gave me a head start by assisting individuals
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The practice of Industrial Social Work specializes in which programs and interventions specific to the workplace ISW’s Focus on work‚ workers‚ and work organizations. Industrial Social Work‚ it is crucial for the social worker to understand the philosophy and organizational structure of the particular setting. Employers found that proactive‚ preventive help employees identify and resolve personal issues before they have medical‚ family‚ and/or workplace consequences. Many employers today are using
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