Personal Social Worker

Social workers form relationships with people an assist them to live more successfully within their local communities by helping them find solutions to their problems. Social work involves engaging not only with clients but their friends and families. Social workers also work closely with organisations such as the police, local authority departments,

Social workers form relationships with people and assist them to live more successfully within their local communities by helping them find solutions to their problems. Social work involves engaging not only with clients themselves but their families and friends as well as working closely with other organisations including the police, local authority departments, schools and the probation service.

Social work professions need to understand the importance of how individuals interact both with other people and their environment, to have an understanding how individuals are affected by these interactions (Rogers, p. 2). According to Rogers (2016), “Social workers are knowledgeable about human behavior across the life course; the range of social systems in which people live; and the ways social systems promote or deter people in maintaining or achieving health and well-being. Social workers apply theories and knowledge from the liberal arts to understand biological, social, cultural, psychological, and spiritual development (p. 2). Their work with clients begins with assessments to evaluations of intervention and is based in and supports of the core value system of the profession.

Abstract The roles of a social worker are many and although it may be seen to most as a simple profession, it is of great value. A social worker has to broaden his or her horizon to see things in a new perspective. One must be able to understand, empower and help individuals, families or groups to overcome some of lives most difficult obstacles. As a social worker you are supposed to be able to appreciate the perspectives of all parties involved.

Social Services role is to investigate and support children who are at risk. Safeguarding the welfare of those that are more vulnerable, usually within the home environment.

Have a legal responsibility to support children and families in need. Most social worker will be employed by social services

A human service professional, plays a major role in society, working side-by-side with various professionals, and assumes a wide range of roles to assist individuals, groups, organizations and communities. Although human service professionals do not necessarily do in depth and psychotherapy, they are well-equipped to facilitate client change and growth typically by working directly or indirectly with clients around concrete tasks, objectives, and goals. A counselor, broker, advocate, case manager, community planner and behavior specialists are just few of the roles of a human service professional. (Lincoln University)

The role of the social worker is not to change people, treat people, or help people cope, but to nourish, encourage, assist, and unleash the strengths within people. They

Social workers take on a range of roles and their purpose is to support disadvantages individuals and improving their health and well-being for example organising the best quality care for children whose parents cannot care for them and for adults who finds it hard to cope in their own homes. Social workers safeguard the public from harm and they assist individuals to access training, benefits, work

Social workers provide professional support and wide variety of services to people who have social difficulties, and are trained to address human needs. They can work in different settings and can specialize in working with people, groups and communities, at all stages of life, from young children to older adults. The role of a social worker varies depending on what setting they are working in, like a hospital or a school.

Social workers are the critical bridge between families and the resources that they need. The job of  those specializing in child and family services may include protecting children and families from domestic abuse, discrimination, and illness. They also help with connecting families with resources like food stamps, homes, and psychological treatments.

Social work may not be the most respected profession but it’s a recognizable one. Social workers help people or groups identify their problems, determine their skills and capacities, what they are doing well, and how that was accomplished, and then analyze ways that those strengths might be applied to the identified problems. Social workers are helping professionals.

A social worker has a very important job. Social workers help children and families in need of food, homes, and health care. They help children have a brighter future. There are many different types of social work. There are mental health, child and family, elementary, and high school social workers.

Being a Social Worker will never be an easy job. Every day they are trying to find the best ways to provide care for their clients. Social work like many other fields is always changing. Every client is different therefore a social worker must be able to find different ways to help that specific person. There are many problems that and social worker can face in this field. One problem that I will face in this profession is workload. There is so many things that must be done to help a client and sometimes it can get overbearing. Having so much to do at work will eventually cause the worker to be stressed. Another problem is working with challenging clients. Some clients are harder to work with than others. For example, one client might not understand or like the way you are trying to help them and won’t corporate. Sometimes even the family tries to step in and give their input which makes it harder to help the client. In this field, a social worker should not have to do so much by themselves. This problem is in most cases due to not enough staff. To fix these problems I propose that more social workers should be able to help one another to relieve a lot of the stress. Also, I propose that the clients’ family makes an agreement to let the social worker do his or her job and not intervene because it makes the process longer and harder.

Our social workers will have to have certain traits and skills in order to be able to appeal to people, create bonds with them, and then carry out what they have promised. One major, yet basic skills needed is “The ability to work efficiently with people” (Zastrow 90). In order to appeal to people, make contracts and arrangements, and find the resources to follow through with plans, good people skills are key in doing so. Another important quality is that the social workers have to have a variety of goals in mind. Those include ideas of power equality, belief for major change, ideas for creativity, and desire for shared leadership. Though these are all very big, they usually work hand-in-hand and when a social worker has one quality, they usually have the others as well. Hopefully, through good people skills, common goals, and pure motivation to the cause, the group of social workers will be unstoppable at changing the poverty situation in Atlantic County for the better.