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Language Barrier In Social Work Practice With Latinos

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The concept I chose from the reading “Social Work Practice with Latinos Key issues and Emerging Themes” is Language Barrier (Furman, Negi, Iwamoto, Rowan, Shukraft & Gragg, 2009). I consider that having a deeper as well as critical thinking in terms of this concept is of great significance in social work practice. According to the article, the author thought language as a huge obstacle when social workers work with Latino population, because Latino immigrants use a wide range of languages besides English, including various indigenous languages. What’s more, their English-speaking capabilities are distributed along with a continuum. I agree with the author’s opinion that language barriers might serve as a roadblock, and I think this roadblock …show more content…

Does language barrier itself really have so enormous negative influence on engagement? Or does it just become one of excuses practitioners use to avoid blame for insufficient skills to engage and interact clients? To be frankly, I did feel afraid of talking with clients in my agency. I somehow resisted interacting with them and I constantly thought this result from language barrier. For instance, when I served as a teacher assistant in the Beginner Computer class, I seldom actively asked seniors whether they understand or do they have questions, since I assumed I could not understand them and I felt awkward when misunderstanding happened. I Meanwhile, seniors themselves also seldom ask me to help them even if they do need more assistance to learn the computer skill, because they think it might bother me or it would show their innocence. Thus, after 2 months, I still failed to establish a good rapport between seniors and me and the effectiveness of the class was largely reduced. After I review and rethink my reaction, I find that it is possible for me to amplify difficulties language barriers cause. My afraid of talking or interacting with clients might not account for the language, but for my weak self-confidence in my clinical

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