Personal Statement: A Career As A Social Worker

Since I could remember, I have always had a profound interest in being of assistance to others. My aspirations include helping people that are in dire need of assistance but just do not know where to begin or do not have the means to help themselves. Therefore, my ideal career is to be a social worker, specifically working in school districts. Children in most cases are often ignored and too apprehensive, or too timid, to reach out and speak up for themselves, and I would like to be the person who helps these children find their voice and provide them with the resources necessary to ensure that they live a good quality of life. Social work is defined as any of various professional activities or methods concretely concerned with providing

Social workers tend to use what is known as an intake form. Essentially, an intake form provides a series of questions for the patient to answer varying between identification data, information regarding family life, as well as questions based on education level. Intake forms allow social workers to gather both qualitative and quantitative data. In addition, these forms present an abundance of information to the social worker because they gather data from the patient's home life and it allows to hypothesize the causes behind the persons need for social services, thus allowing for the opportunity of classification. For example, if a child expresses certain feeling towards their home life in a negative fashion, it demonstrates to the social worker that, their home life is an essential focal point of their clients issues, and allows them to better target the problem. Finally, social workers can deduce whether or not the child has a specific condition or if they are just in need of certain services, or treatments. To sum up, intake forms provide a sense of statistical analysis which is essential when classifying children and determining what they