Practicum Experience Essay
During the fall semester, I was enrolled in five courses excluding my field practicum experience. These courses include human behavior, social, economic, and political environment, social welfare policy and services, social work practice with organization and community and field practicum seminar. At the end of the semester, I achieved 3.5 GPA. Human behavior and social, economic, and political environment course were two of my favorite course because of their content nature which was interesting and new. Human behavior course taught me the skills of understanding the human behavior in the social environment. This skill is the fundamental tool that social workers need to equipped with to effectively provide support to their client. A wide array
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International Institute of St Louis (IISTL) was the place I worked my practicum. IISTL is a non-profit organization which provides refugee and immigrant resettlement, adjustment, employment, and several other wide ranges of services for newly arrived immigrant to the US. I was working in Social Work department that mainly engaged in counseling, expectation management, case management, medical referral, and management. I worked in the Preferred Community unit of the Social Work department which supports clients in US adjustment, transportation, life skills, medical referral, and employment. The experience gave me an opportunity to apply my learned skills, theories, and perspective into practice. Further, I learned how the US social services agency operates in view of Social Work values and ethics. My practicum experience also opened a door to meet and work with new people and expand my network. As I am taking a direct social work track my practicum experience offered me an opportunity to directly work with individual, family and group setting. Practicum experience had also helped me to better understand the US social welfare system. I learned the US social welfare system in my Social Welfare Policy and Services course. However, through the practicum experience, I strengthen my understanding of the US social welfare programs and policies in a pragmatic
International Institute of St Louis (IISTL) was the place I worked my practicum. IISTL is a non-profit organization which provides refugee and immigrant resettlement, adjustment, employment, and several other wide ranges of services for newly arrived immigrant to the US. I was working in Social Work department that mainly engaged in counseling, expectation management, case management, medical referral, and management. I worked in the Preferred Community unit of the Social Work department which supports clients in US adjustment, transportation, life skills, medical referral, and employment. The experience gave me an opportunity to apply my learned skills, theories, and perspective into practice. Further, I learned how the US social services agency operates in view of Social Work values and ethics. My practicum experience also opened a door to meet and work with new people and expand my network. As I am taking a direct social work track my practicum experience offered me an opportunity to directly work with individual, family and group setting. Practicum experience had also helped me to better understand the US social welfare system. I learned the US social welfare system in my Social Welfare Policy and Services course. However, through the practicum experience, I strengthen my understanding of the US social welfare programs and policies in a pragmatic