Explain the role of an advocate in supporting individuals accessing services.

Discuss how you think a healthcare leader can create an environment supporting accountability.

Professional development is an ongoing process, by which social workers continually seek to identify their unique strengths, as well as opportunities for improvement in practice. To guide the assessment of your professional development needs, use your social work expereince to write a SWOT analysis (strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, threats) on yourself, identifying your personal and professional attributes as they relate to working with clients and communities. Write a single-page reflection describing the specific actions you plan to take for addressing any potential blind spots uncovered in your self-SWOT. Your mini-paper should follow APA style guidelines and include: Direct linkages between the SWOT analysis results and your intended actions Identification of specific professional development tools and resources (i.e., training programs, CEU courses, steps toward licensure, etc.) Supervision goals Personal and professional supports to help you succeed (i.e., mentors,…

Effective Counseling Techniques are skills which, when practiced effectively by a knowledgeable person, counselor or not, make possible a trusting environment where a client (or friend) can share what has been held "secretly" or privately. Discuss the above statement.