1) Beginning at a young age, I knew who I was. My parents never let me forget neither did the kids at school, I was different than most around me I was a pretty sensitive kid, I saw the good in everything and I always have. The world doesn’t always seem as if it has any good within, but behind the troubles you can sometimes find the beauty in it all. As a child I use to get made fun of on the playground at school. it was because I was a different skin color. no one understood why I had an afro and just always wanted to touch it, as if they weren’t humans too, who were born with hair on top of their heads. Society seems to have a way of making us feel small, amongst others when we are different. Not only did I grow up as minority but I was …show more content…
People tend to only do things for personal benefit, like me even though I love to make others happy I do it for myself, I do it to make myself feel better, it’s a personal benefit for me as if I am doing something right by the standards of society in a way to better the world around me. 2) As a Social worker i want to specify in pediatric oncology i believe that not many people know that this is a field available, i know that many people who do know that it is an existing field are afraid to take on the task of working alongside sick kids, my heart is set on being a pediatric oncology social worker so that I can help the families and children affected by cancer through programs, activities, providing needed information, planning steps and guidelines to deal with emotional stress with as well as coping …show more content…
Consult in other social workers because if you want to know something you have to find the smartest person in the room, and if you are the smartest person in the room, then you have to find a new room and a smarter person. In handling the stigma parents might have about cancer and or sick kids. I mean there's not much i can really do in this case because parents are always going to worry about their children no matter what i say, all i can do is make sure they are as comfortable as possible and have at least one thing less to worry about as well as help set up or recommending support groups to ensure that they can take on their “new normal” as smoothly as