Critical Analysis: Chapter 8 Review including NC Professional School Social Work Standards INTRODUCTION This critical analysis will reflect the information parallel in Chapter 8 and NC School Social Workers Professional Standards (4). The reader will be able to better understand the standards as they relate to "societal issues" in schools. Chapter 8 covers the challenges that many schools face when dealing with students of varying biopsychosocial constraints. Jarolmen, 2014 reflected upon a variety of social problems of said student populations that can disable or even paralyze individual learning.
This process recording will discuss an observation of the caregiver of a client that the student worker has been visiting for the several weeks. This client is a Caucasian female, 71, with dementia; her primary caregiver is her daughter. Although, this client has dementia she is able to respond to question if asked but when conversing she is insensible. This week during visitation, the intent was to construct a puzzle with the client because she loves to participate in activities involves usage of her hands. As the student social worker began to separate the puzzle pieces she converse with the caregiver to ask about her weekend.
My first reason for applying to the Rutgers University School of Social Work is researching the university of recognized as one of the top universities worldwide. Secondly, I am relocating after fifteen years back to Camden, New Jersey area. I believe my personal reasons of applying to one of the well-known universities in the nation, is learning new avenues of becoming a licensed social worker. Further, my professional reason for applying to the Rutgers University School of Social Work is discovering how to adapt to change and develop skills of professionalism.
Rutgers University School of Social Work is an intense and competitive program that is well-known for shaping some of the finest and highest skilled social workers today. As an aspiring social worker, I want to attend a MSW program that will challenge and prepare me for a successful career and I know that Rutgers University School of Social Work is the institution that will do just that. As an undergraduate law and justice major, I have always dreamed of pursuing a career in the field of law as a defense attorney. However, when asked why, I was never able to provide an answer.
Upon completing this program I plan to work with individuals seeking support, guidance, and personal growth. To fortify this work, I intend to attain clinical licensure. Although social work practices can ameliorate client troubles, I would also like the ability to find possible solutions within diagnoses, further evaluation, and treatment. Utilizing the Advanced Clinical Practice concentration offered in this program will allow me to become familiar with working in clinical settings and apply my coursework knowledge to real work situations. A crucial piece I look for when entering an academic program or workplace is the ability to create real, tangible change.
Per the Sandra Rosenbaum School of Social Work mission statement, as social workers we seek to enhance human well-being and promote human rights and social and economic justice to achieve an equitable, healthy, and productive society. Looking closely at my personal morals and values I found this mission statement to hold true to myself and what I expect out of my work when pursuing a professional degree in social work. Through my own trauma healing journey, I have found myself reaching into my past and reconnecting the way I was treated by the system to how I can utilize those memories into fulfilling actions that can truly better even the life of one client. One of the biggest issues I believe the community faces is a lack of resources and access to equal opportunities.
Based on the social worker’s observations, the client appears to be neat in appearance and hygiene. His clothes are not wrinkled and he appears clean. The client asked many questions to the social worker and has stated he expects the social worker to always have an answer for everything. The social worker feels as if Conrad may not have an outlet for his feelings outside of therapy. The client tends to interrupt the social worker so that he may speak about what’s on his mind.
Rational for the observations The rational for using these observations retrospectively is to make sense of the whole person Amy’s life history, looking over her notes, why had she not engaged historically? Why the resistance? I wanted to understand how and why this was happening not just respond to the immediate crisis, rehouse and decontaminate her home for the behavioural pattern to be repeated. This method allowed me to explore theories of human growth and development and evaluate them with criticality (Monette et. 2014).
My passion for helping and supporting those whose economic and financial standings have hindered their growth in our society, has driven me towards social work. I feel I have exhausted every possible avenue in my current degree field. Pursuing a master’s in Social Work, will give me the diversity that I need, while aiding me in bringing my dreams of working more in depth with clients, by helping assist them with their individual needs and issues to reality. The Social work field also offers versatility which allows me to work in many dimensions, such as clinical, case management, and many other composites which enables me to help every population. Becoming a social worker gives me other benchmarks in which I can use to evaluate programs,
In this paper, I will assess my identity and my personal history and how it relates to social work professions. I first address my personal history and cultural background, where I came from, as well as my experience in working in the community. I then talk about my overall strengths, both in personal and professional lives. My strengths are listening skills, open-mindedness, respect for diversity and eagerness to learn and improve my weaknesses. Afterward, I discuss my weaknesses, such as nonassertive communication skill and low self-esteem problems, and how I plan to address these issues.
Something that I consider to be both a strength and a weakness in my social work career is my gentle and reassuring manner. On the surface, this may seem like an excellent trait to have. I am very much a “people person” and others are naturally drawn to me. I tend to look at situations in a positive light as much as possible and have become an expert in removing tension between family members or dealing with end-of-life concerns. The majority of the residents value this quality in me and seek me out when a difficult decision needs to be made.
I am confident that the skills that I will gain from completing a social work master’s degree will help me collaborate with people in need and aid sustainable growth in their lives. My first introduction to social work as a profession came while living on a small
Social work and psychology are very different disciplines; even though psychology is mainly academic and social work is chiefly applied they have a very cordial mutual reliance on each other. What we can say is, psychology is the science that studies the behaviour of human beings and formulates theories that can be of use in understanding an individual, whereas social work is the practical application of those related theories for bettering the welfare of people and development of society in general. Projections, a phenomenon that is a part of psychology is the main aspect that majorly decides how an individual reacts and behaves in a certain situation, this phenomena helps a social worker analyse and modulate the human behaviour. Coming to
A Discussion and Evaluation of the Usefulness of Sociology for Social Work Theory and Practice. Introduction. This essay defines, discusses and evaluates the theory and practice of sociology and its usefulness and application to social work and practice. The influences of a wide range of surrounding issues from, e.g. class, education, religion to culture and how they impact on social structure, e.g. with the family and the wider community will be researched and evaluated.
Throughout this essay I am going to discuss the scientific discipline of social psychology, I will give a brief definition and history of the discipline. I will talk about some important people who contributed to the development of social psychology, such a Wundt and Triplett who are both considered founders of social psychology. As well as others who conducted studies in the field such as Carl Hovland and Kurt Lewin. One person who had a major influence in the development of social psychology is Adlof Hitler. Some of the most significant studies that were conducted were in the aftermath of the Second World War.
