Reflective Essay On Social Work

Modern social care presents the contemporary social care worker with a number of social and personal challenges.
In order to address this issue I will take an autobiographical approach based on my own personal life experiences in a social care context and blend it with my learning during the college process.
Firstly I would like to state that the views and experiences expressed in this essay are not general statements directed at the travelling community as a whole but just my own personal experiences with individuals, this also holds true for members of the settled community that I will discuss.
In the essay I will give a brief outline of my history to date both as a social care worker and as a self-employed business person at the time.
The
This showed me the deep rooted prejudice that existed within our society and that also how travellers could only exist in certain social spaces that were predetermined by the settled community. It reminded me of Apartheid in South Africa and here it was alive and well in Castlebar.
It also showed the deep rooted discrimination that members of the travelling community were forced to endure in our society. If discriminatory remarks were made to any other ethnic or racial group then people maybe challenged and labelled the comment as racist or being uneducated etc, however the traveller seems to be exempt from some such societal defence.
It is fully endorsed to make discriminatory and racist comments and actions as long as they are directed at travellers. This attitude is seeping right through settled society and goes to enforcing traveller stereotypes and attitudes towards them as the settled community take this stance as the norm, thus potentially propagating the Apartheid attitude toward travellers for generations to