...Writing Assignment #1 Perception of Social Work Assignment According to the National Association of Social Workers (NASW), social work as profession originated over one hundred years ago. I perceive social work as a job that helps children and adults to be safe within their environment. Helping children and adults improve the quality of life. Therefore, making social work is an important job. When I think of social work I think about problem solving because, I perceive social workers as solving problems. I also perceive a social worker as an individual who prevents problem from developing. Bureau of Labor Statistics defines social work, as an individual that assists people by helping them cope with and solve issues in their everyday lives, such as family and personal problems and dealing with relationships. Furthermore, social workers also help people with disabilities and children facing abuse, unemployment, and social problems. In addition there are various types of social workers. These various types of social workers includes: child, family, medical, public and school social workers. These social workers provide services and assistance to improve the social and psychological functioning of children and their family (Bureau of Labor Statistics). Child, family, and school social workers help to improve the situation. For example, they may assist single parents, abused children, and arrange adoptions. Specializing in working with a particular problem, population or settings...
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...Child and Family Social Worker Kaplan University Professor Pruett CM107-98 April 17, 2014 The first source listed below was found on the KU Online Library. This was a very interesting article to read for my final project. I choose to read The Survival Guide for Newly Qualified Child and Family Social Workers: Hitting the Ground Running. After reading this eBook, I found that each chapter has a range of tasks, exercises and checklists, which provide hints and tips to help professionals manage a range of different issues. Issues that is likely to arise during the first year as a newly qualified social worker. This book contains great advice and guidance for new social workers. This is a good book that triggers your thinking. It can be used to set us up on the right direction or to help us avoid difficulty when dealing with clients. (Donnellan, 2010) This was a perfect book for me to read because I am planning on becoming a Child and Family Social worker, once I obtain my Bachelor’s degree. This book is great because it is intended for new entrants into the field of human services. So, it perfectly fits with the topic I will be writing about in my Unit 9 Final Project. It contains a lot of information on what to expect when in this field. This is source is reliable, because I found it on Kaplan Universities Library. Everything found in this library is suitable. The second source I choose was from O*NET OnLine. This website contains occupational information. By searching...
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...schoolsecurity). Traumatic stress and psychological distress play a major role in counseling children. School counseling has become even more valuable in the U.S. due to traumatic events such as school shootings. School shootings have had a major impact on students, families and communities. There is a more security and law enforcement present at schools across the US and metal detectors in schools also. School children are being taught how to prepare if there is a shooter or shooters in schools. Due to the increased acts of violence in schools and the need for intensive intervention in student issues, school personnel, school boards, and communities are recognizing the need to provide effective prevention and intervention programs to address social, emotional, and academic needs of students. (Davis, T., 2015, Exploring School Counseling). In the next ten years even more attention will be needed to counseling of young children. There are students who have undiagnosed mental health issues, counselors have to be diligent and observant when working with students. In today’s society students are stressed, some are highly medicated. Counselors have to be aware of each student needs, behaviors, and work with all staff to meet the needs of these...
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...March 2015 Living the Dream There have been many life experiences which have led me to have a desire to be a social worker. For example, all of my life my parents have taught me the value of helping others. I grew up in atmosphere where the needs of others were put before our own. My family’s example has truly helped me to understand the importance of helping others. As a direct result of this example, for as long as I can remember I have had the desire to work in the social work field helping those truly in need. I first realized this desire when I was 9 years old. At the time my mother would take me to local homeless shelters in Houston to help the poor and unfortunate. During the time there I heard many stories from people on how they ended up in this position. These stories involved issues with drugs, alcohol, and domestic violence as well as victims who suffered from sexual and physical abuse as a child. As I was listing my mind would automatically start conjuring thoughts of solutions that can fix their problem. I could easily empathize with them on a personal level. My passion to help others grew more and more after each story told. Hearing these stories is what inspired me and filled my desire to become a social worker. That’s why I have dedicated myself to doing whatever it takes to make this lifelong dream of mine a reality. I believe that being a social worker requires many special skills that I feel I possess. One of these skills that I feel is important is that I...
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...more lean body that society promotes. As a result, many teenagers are victims to eating disorders and with this disease comes sadness, frustration, fear, depression and loneliness (Bardnick) This highlights the need for action to be taken in addressing eating disorders and preventing them from occurring. The relationship of social work with anorexia on the rise is very significant. Schools are the number one place where teens feel the need to fit in and with a social worker being able to communicate with students about anything is extremely beneficial to most. The main approach of social workers in schools has been to counsel the child with their problems and to inform the family of the situation taking place (Morales, Sheafor, Scott 109). In order for the previous step to happen and to enable social workers to do their job, teachers need to make referrals when evident problems are occurring with a student. However, school social workers are also in the position to detect students’ changing attitudes around food, weight, body shape, social functioning, and academic studies too since they are surrounded by them on a daily basis. School social workers are in a position to identify at-risk individuals, enforce effective school-based prevention programs, make appropriate...
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...Elementary and Middle School Social Workers Kristen Zanghi The University of North Carolina at Pembroke Interview with the Social Worker: The Social Worker that I interviewed is Flossie Hunt, who works at Pembroke Elementary and Middle School. Her specific job title is the School Social Worker, whose qualifications that are required include a Bachelor in Social Work and having completed the School Social Work class (Hunt). A School Social Worker has many responsibilities when it comes to a days work. One is to empower the students, families, and school personnel to access available opportunities and resources that develop each student’s potential. They make assessments of student, family, and school needs and direct the service/services delivery. They are the advocacy of a student when needed and handle consultations and collaborations. They deal with situations like program planning, implementation, and evaluation and they deal with the accountability of the students. (Hunt) The roles played by a School Social Worker vary in the severity of the situation with a student. They must meet the social service needs of children and must try to improve the communication between the home and the school. Their job is to serve homes, schools, and the community. As stated before, a School Social Worker is required to have a Bachelor in Social Work. It would be an even better advantage to have a Master in Social Work (Hunt). Social Workers working in a specific field...
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...Professional Ethical Standards Social Worker 8/15/2010 University of Phoenix Gail Zettel “Social work is a profession for those with a strong desire to help improve people's lives.” Social Caseworker- The minimum requirement for entry into a social work career is a bachelor’s in social work (BSW), although some positions may require an advanced degree. Master’s programs prepare the graduate for work in their chosen field and help develop the skills required to perform clinical assessments, manage large caseloads, and explore new ways of drawing upon social services to meet the needs of clients. A master’s degree program takes two years (full time), four years part-time, and requires a minimum of 900 hours of field instruction or internship. To have a professional title you must have two years or 3,000 hours of clinical experience and obtain a license, certification, or registration dependent on the State you live in. To be a social worker you must be emotionally mature, objective, and sensitive to people and the problems that surround them. You must be responsible, be able to work independently, and be able to maintain working relationships with your clients and co-workers. Volunteering as a social work aide will help you access whether or not you have an interest in this field. In 2008 social workers held around 642,000 jobs, and employment for social workers is expected to grow for all social occupations through 2018. These proposed outlooks on growth...
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...Human Services Professions Tony Ledwell Walden University Case Management can help many individuals retrieve access to any services that they are in need. This includes Medicaid waiver, financial benefits, social clubs, health care, affordable housing and vocational training programs. The goal of case managers is to teach those who need assistance to manage their own lives, but to support them when expertise is needed or a crisis occurs (Woodside & McClam, p. 20, 2011). Every client benefits from this service because they reach a high-level of wellness and self-management. When a case manager takes on a client, they help them achieve communication, planning and education. This makes the workload easier for the client because the case manager is making sure the providers are safe, effective, efficient and client centered. Normally case managers provides services in the clients home or community site and they could meet once or twice a month to go over new information or help target basic living skills, transportation, therapy, and legal services. The Case Management role appeals to me because you get to see how fortunate your life is and you never want to take anything for granted. After being around case managers I get to see first hand how they incorporate their own style to fit the clients needs and most professionals use their own personal experience while others may have learned through formal trainings. Being a case manager you get to enjoy the position...
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...could combine the service of home assessments along with any of the other kinds of therapy. The social worker already has to meet with the individual(s) and then he or she may also set up a session for therapy. The benefit of combining the services would eliminate the minutes spent with the client and the usage of more supplies. The fallback would come in the form of the client or the social worker lacking focus or not equipped for an initial evaluation and then beginning a session. In addition, the organization’s surplus can increase by using the administrative department. The administrative assistants work together with the social workers to complete important tasks. The company can train the assistants in a certain field, so the employee will work faster and attain more knowledge for that certain area. For example, one administrative aide can work with the social workers who deal with individual counseling whereas another associate handles the clients and workers in the group therapy field. This would also cut down on minutes spent working with different tasks and therapy sectors. On the other hand, the employees would not be able to pick up the slack for one another if each does not know about the other’s field. Supplies can become expensive for an organization that depends on them. CareSafe spends a decent amount of funds providing supplies to the social workers and other employees. The business can purchase supplies in bulk to cut down on the amount spent...
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...Communication in Health and Social Care organizations Introducion The purpose of this essay is introduced and analyses the central importance of communication in heath and social care organisation starting with different theories of communication. Also will explore the used communication skills, ways to overcome barriers to meet individual needs because of their many different elements can influence the communication process, and advantages in communication. In addition the last session is about how to use the standard software to support the work, why important, and benefits of information and communication technology in health and social care settings. Exploring the communications skills in health and social care organisations This essay argues that the communication is one of the most important elements of civilisation, this is how people exchange of words and meanings through common understanding. Communication is the way of sending and receiving messages one person to another. (F. C. Lunenburg, 2010) Theories of communication As a result of this fact the communication is based on different theories. Namely one of the main theories is the Behaviourist theory. Lefrancoise (1988:29) argues that have two principal classes and they make use any of these classes of examples for learning. Both classes of behaviourism stated on very close to each other as for simultaneity of stimulus a response events, also stated on the effects of behaviour as for reinforcement...
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...Essential for a Successful Social Worker Latanya Griffin Kaplan University CM107-45 Professor Stoff April 14, 2014 Many professionals enter into the field of social work to help others grow and improve their life circumstance. Those who are preparing for a career as a social worker need to possess the ability and skill of professional boundary setting. It.is important that a social worker maintain the capacity to set boundaries and accept the limits of what can be accomplished in a certain amount of time. Establishing boundaries and setting milestones and goals can help set expectable exceptions to the many challenges a social worker may face. It is crucial that social workers understand the limits of their knowledge and not work beyond them. Having a cutoff point not only protect the safety of the client, it also protect the social worker integrity and ethical principles. Social workers should work for the good of the patient to the best of their ability and avoid doing anything to abuse the patient physically, emotionally or ethically. There have been many complaints filed against social works resulting in imposed fines, penalties, licensure sanctions, suspension, or revocation. In some instances, workers could be imprisoned for inappropriate abuse of a client. (Dietz & Thompson, 2004) offered the concern about the effects of power differential between client and social worker. Boundary setting ensures that the use of a social worker authority is not abused...
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...I. Elements of Business Environment II. Social factors affecting acceptance and rejection of an identified product. III. Texture IV. Texture is a crucial criterion for sensory acceptance and rejection. Certain textures do seem to be universally liked, crispness, for example—perhaps through its association with freshness. Of course, to some extent, we will always prefer textures that are compatible with our dentition, and thus we would not expect infants to like hard foods. Foods that are difficult to manipulate in the mouth—such as soggy foods—are commonly disliked, as are foods that require excessive saliva and effort to swallow, such as dry, tough meat. While food texture is often cited as a reason for rejecting food, for example raw oysters, it is likely that such preferences are also a function of our prior expectations for specific foods. V. Color VI. Food color is also undoubtedly a strong influence on acceptability, but again this is likely to reflect prior expectations. Whether we prefer white (U.S.) or yellow (U.K.) butter depends on what we have eaten in the past. Some colors have been thought to be inappropriate for food. The color blue, for instance, has been suggested as a candidate for a universally inappropriate food color—after all, very few foods are naturally blue. But recent marketing of brightly and "inappropriately" colored foods for children tends to undermine this notion, since the children appear receptive to unusual colors. Removing...
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...I am a conscientious, responsible, enthusiastic and open minded young lady with fervour to pursue a career in social work. Over the last two years I have been working in a social care field and I feel that undertaking this degree programme will be the next step in my career. I have chosen social care because I get immense satisfaction from helping those in need. I have experience of working in a variety of settings which allowed me to meet and work with a diverse range of service users. In my current role as a Forensic Mental Health Support Worker, I support individuals with mental health disorder who are offenders, people who have been in contact with the Criminal Justice System and who have been transferred to secure hospitals. I work in a 24hr high support residential project, with individuals who experience a variety of mental health disorders. I have gained a lot of insight into the various types of mental illness and how they affect each individual differently and the difficulties they face daily. Due to this insight I have gained, I am able to promote choice and well-being amongst my clients by affecting positive change where possible and empowering them to live an independent life when possible. I support my clients with their daily living skills, I provide emotional support by helping my clients to cope with stressful situations or changes in their lives and liaise with appropriate agencies for them to get the personalise care they require. However, if they are unable...
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...Including theoretical deliberations that are present, common intervention strategies that have been used and ethical considerations when counseling takes place. History of Human Services In the Human Services field professionals work together on helping individuals in the basic need of life such as health, clothing, food safety, health, and shelter. Human service professionals will also face mental and emotional issues."[pic]During the late 1950s and 1960s, there were[pic] several [pic]changes in the area of helping[pic] individuals [pic]in need. Populations like the[pic] substance abuser, [pic]unemployed, children in need,[pic] poor individuals, children in need, elderly, disabled, the poor and others began to be recognize the as need to have social and rehabilitation services. [pic]In 1956 The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), provided[pic] sources [pic]to establish the first associate degree program in mental health at Purdue University. This would be[pic] a [pic]human[pic] service program [pic]across the[pic] nation. Around [pic]this time, new...
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...Social Workers and Their Long Term Clients Drunetta Graham BSHS/305 Anie Sklar Clients Perceptions of Their Difficulties When Clients start to reflect on their difficulties they are reminded of all the hardships that may be going on such as, lack of money, problems with their families, and just being lonely. These types of hardships may be a reality, but when it actually happens to someone, it can become a very hard process. Some clients also have health issues that cause them to not have a typical routine. With relationships, these problems can cause a husband and a wife to start having disagreements, this can cause the other spouse to think that there’s no support. As stated in the article, “Economic hardship evidently exacerbates the difficulties of raising children.” (Krumer-Nevo, M., Slonim,-Nevo V., &Hirshenzon-Segev, E., 2006)(31). The children may go lacking of some wants and needs due to parents hardships, but they are able to have a discussion about these things and receive help. Clients Perception and Attitudes Regarding Their Social Workers and the Relationship “Clients’ dissatisfaction about assistance received accorded additional significance to the question inquiring about their expectations regarding the SSD.” (Krumer-Nevo, M., Slonim,-Nevo V., &Hirshenzon-Segev, E., 2006)(32). Clients sometimes feel as though the social workers aren’t being truthful to them when it comes to financial assistance, and the way workers perform towards the...
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