My Vision Of The Social Work Field

I believe social work is a passion and is consistent with my personality traits: loyalty, commitment, and personal servitude. This passion coupled with the forthcoming skills gained from an MSW degree at Florida International University, I will have the honor of becoming a professional social worker with unlimited possibilities to advocate, provide direct services or lead an organization-all of which will lead to my ultimate goal of positively affecting the lives of vulnerable people. FIU offers a quality, high-intensity program that will surely equip me with the tools to do this great profession and act of public service

My first personal value that will impact my work as a social worker is respect. In terms of social work and ability to influence my additional values, respect is the most important. For me, respect means to honor others and appreciate their perspective. While my definition of respect may seem simple, its usefulness is multifaceted. One may respect a person, a place, a situation, a circumstance, etc. I learned concepts of respect as a child as my parents were teaching me to observe boundaries. They wanted me to respect my room, and keep it clean, and they explained to me how they respected my personal space. In return, my parents taught me to respect their boundaries, their room, and

As far back as I can remember I have always had an inclination to help others and have experienced grief upon witnessing people and animals suffer. I first gained insight in the social services field when I worked at a residential care facility that housed children with significant emotional and/or behavioral issues. What really resonated with me from this experience was that these vulnerable mistreated children deserved more than their unfortunate circumstances. This led me to become even more passionate about the welfare of others. After working with this population for several years I decided to explore different career fields. Regardless of how successful I was in other careers, a feeling of emptiness remained within me. I began to search

First, my values are present in my dream job. As a Social Worker, I will be able to utilize my values on the job. The value I feel strongly about is Altruism, helping society. Being a Social Worker requires me to implement activities in the community for adolescents. I would like to work with children and families that have been abused. I want to give to those children and families the resources they need. Influencing a child’s behavior and opinions is very important in the Social Work field. I want to be able to change many of the children I work with, in a more positive way. I know that by working with families in need and vulnerable children, as I hope

Adult individuals diagnosed with an intellectual disability often are not integrated socially within their communities. They are often segregated to the same services, residential and employment opportunities with one another. Living, working, and participating in recreational activity with the same individuals on a daily basis can affect interactions with each other. Aggression creates unsafe environments and impairs social relationships. Problematic behaviors may result in impairment of the individual’s functioning, disruptions in the individual’s environment, and interpersonal relationships (Florez & Bethay, 2017). Relationships with others is important

I interviewed Kim, a LICSW working in private practice in Providence along with her two brothers. She takes on a person-centered approach to her therapy and is very focused on helping her clients achieve their goals, whether it be overcoming grief or dealing with a large adjustment in their lives. Kim certainly appears to be running a very successful practice and by being able to speak to her directly, I learned much more about the social work field.

Ever since I can remember I have always had a passion for helping people. I always felt as if I was called to fulfill a greater purpose in life to assist those in need. It has always been my desire to be that motivation and the change in the lives' of those individuals who were less fortunate than me. My main goal is to work somewhere that makes me wake up in the morning eager to get to work because I love what I do. There is no other field that can give me that feeling, and this is why I chose the social work field.

Working in the world of Social Work can be many things; educating, adventurous, and at times emotional fulfilling and or draining. Every person brings their own contributions as well as their own strategies and problem solving techniques that are set by the social work guidelines. Getting into the world of social work can be intimidating, stressful and many questions are often internally asked. As an aspiring social worker I have had the opportunity to meet up with Tracey Hodgins; a micro social worker who has been in the industry for 15 years, and has had a Bachelor of Social Work Degree for 13 years. She is the mother of a friend of mine who agreed to let me interview her. Currently she is Adult probation officer; she deals with managing

I think kids have the ability even better than fashion designers to know when someone is poor. I worked really hard to not show anyone how much my family was struggling financially. Kids whose parents were on welfare often got mad fun of because of how they dressed. I remember being on free lunch at school and often bringing change extra so I could get slightly better food. My parents drove around one car that they shared and it was really beaten up. I used to be so embarrassed to ride in it. Everything they had were gifts or hand-me-downs from their parents. I did not need for everyone to tell me we were poor, I lived it and knew it.

In the profession of social work, a worker comes to realization that there are many areas of human rights and legal concerns that are troubling and painful for the people in our care. Yet, as workers provide these services it requires them to advocate, protect, and provide the highest level of service as the worker explore the concept of the person and the environment. Also, it is imperative for all social workers to understand the theory behind how people change from conception to death in order to provide the necessary services intended for the clients in which we served such as loss, success, betrayal, and death. When a worker fully understand the theory then this will governed the type of services that will be offer and be professional.

My current understanding of social work is that it is a profession which helps different people achieve various goals or obtain different types of services. Social workers may work with very young children or they may work with the elderly or any age group in between. Social workers are often advocates for underprivileged groups of people. Social work is often categorized into three main groups, micro, mezzo, and macro social work (Cummins, Pedrick, Sevel, 2012). In micro social work, social workers, “work with individuals, in families or in groups, and in public, not-for-profit, or private agencies” (Cummins, Pedrick, Sevel, 2012). In mezzo social work, social workers, “work in program and policy development or research evaluation within community agencies or private corporations” (Cummins, Pedrick, Sevel, 2012). Lastly, macro social workers, “may be involved with community organizing and development, or working in the political arena as a state or federal employee, elected official, policy analyst, or lobbyist” (Cummins, Pedrick, Sevel, 2012). No matter what area of social work a person works in social workers need to be culturally competent, and follow the social work mission and values.

For a long time now I have always aspired to be a social worker, I have worked hard at my education to make this possible. I would like to work in a field helping and caring for others. In everyday life individuals go through problems, which make life difficult to them to live. The saying ‘a service is only as good as the person who delivered the service’, makes me want to be that person and deliver good service to people who need it.

Human services itself describes a multitude of possible agencies and therefore career opportunities. However one of the huge parts of human services is adoption, foster care, and assisting children in general. Being a social worker you can help make sure that children are placed in good, loving homes, where they are going to be taken care of. There has been countless people that have helped to form and shape the way that social workers help children; but by far one of the most influential people would have to have been Charles Loring Brace. Charles Loring Brace has help create the roots for how we today work as social workers and how the system functions as a whole.

The decision to pursue my education in social work at Dalhousie University was not an easy one. While I was growing up, my career choice changed all of them time, but I always knew that I wanted to do something fulfilling, in which I could “help” and support people. My mom was a nurse and always loved helping people; I always figured I would follow in her footsteps, however I learned at an early age that sciences do not come easy to me. Unfortunately, my mom lost her battle to breast cancer when I was eight years old, so I hope that by me helping people socially, rather than medically like she did, will continue her legacy.

Getting interested in the helping profession was not a hard at all. As long as I can remember I have been helping and caring for people. I was always interested in helping, all I had to do was find the field that let me help people. Becoming a social work major was just putting a name to something I had always wanted to do and get paid for it. I think what made me realize that this is the job for me was just thinking about what I do on a daily basis and what I love to do. I love helping people and being there for people, so my interest was always in a helping profession. Also every other profession besides social work would not make me as happy as social work would.