My Career Path Of Working With Families As A Professional Social Worker

After completing this course, I am looking forward to starting my career path of working with families as a professional social worker. This career field looks like it will be both challenging and rewarding at the same time. I am hoping that my education at Appalachian State University will provide me with most of the skills and training that I will need in order to be an effective advocate and helper for my clients. My goal is to assist families in obtaining the resources that they need the most. I aspire to empower the families that I work with and aid them in discovering ways to manage their difficulties. I anticipate establishing relationships with them and encouraging their success by focusing on their strengths rather than their
Through the group presentations, I had another opportunity to practice developing these skills. I realize that I have a long way to go before I am truly proficient in this area. However, I am always happy to have the chance to practice using these skills in front of my classmates in order to make improvements. I hope to be more skillful in this area by graduation. I believe that the other presenting groups did an outstanding job of providing me with valuable information in regards to finding resources to meet the needs of families. I also gained a better knowledge and understanding of some of the challenges that families may face and how to assist them in overcoming these challenges. The issues of alcoholism, substance abuse, intimate partner violence, mental illness, and caring for older family members are very relevant in society today. I believe that I have more information on all of the issues and am hoping that I will be able to use the information to help my clients in the
I was able to find out firsthand about the training and skills that I would need in order to become a successful family social worker. I believe that it also allowed me another opportunity to establish a connection, which might provide useful when I am seeking employment after graduation. I also appreciated having a choice in this assignment because I was able to once again pursue my area of interest. The note of thanks was an excellent idea. We have participated in many related assignments in the past where we interviewed social workers in the field, and we never wrote a note of thanks. I am glad that we had the opportunity to do this and that we now know the importance of this gesture. I will be certain to include a note of thanks when interviewing professionals in future