Social Work Personal Statement I am a people’s person. I am passionately interesting in listening to people’s problem and finding strategies to help solve them. In everyday life people go through difficulties that make life impossible to them to live. There is a saying that says a service is only as good as the person who delivered the service. I want to be that person who delivered a good service to people who needs it. Through studding subject like psychology‚ sociology and abnormal psychology
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1950s social workers were not focused on helping alcoholic or drug-dependent people. Instead back then they worked with the spouse of the chemically dependent person. Juvenile drug use was not investigated until 1952. In 1957 social workers were urged to help change public attitudes towards alcoholism. In 1970 legislation was passed that was to affect the delivery of services including social work services to alcoholic clients. Soon courses were offered at school about alcoholism. Now social workers
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“Social Work Value &Ethics” PDA was designed for social worker majors and pre social worker majors. Values and Ethics are what social workers live by it entails our code of ethics. The Code of Ethics tells us as social workers how we should act and behave. As social workers it is very important that we practice by these values and ethics. I like this PDA for the reason that many social workers today act as if they do not know anything about values or ethics. I think all social workers should attend
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This evaluation of social work journals will aid in my ability to think critically and apply communication and professional judgment. Also‚ to integrating research based knowledge. Reading and evaluating these journals helps in formulating modules for assessment‚ intervention‚ and evaluation. Moreover‚ the paper will demonstrate my ability to communicate effectively verbally and grammatically with clients‚ colleagues‚ and within organizations. I will also research areas of prevention as it relates
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Association of Social Workers focuses on 6 core values that are greatly embedded in the profession of social work. As a young student who is determined to be a social worker I have become very invested in the core values since first learning about them in my Introduction to Social Work class with Professor Thigpen. As we discussed each of these core values in class I became extremely interested in the value of social justice. This core value encourages social workers to fight against social injustice
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In the second case example‚ a theoretical perspective that may work for the family‚ is the Strengths Perspective. In this perspective‚ a social worker would acknowledge the client’s strengths and help the clients build upon those strengths‚ as well as realizing that they have the ability to learn and change. In this example‚ Romelio has numerous strengths that he can build upon in order to change his ways. One of his strengths includes the fact that he was able to maintain sobriety for two years
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decisions such as career choice because it could have a great impact on an individual. In the article “Spirituality and Religiosity: Their Effects on Undergraduate Social Work Career Choice” a study is done to analyze this influence between different groups of people and if R/S is a main motivator in career choice (specifically social work) or if there are other factors that have a greater influence than R/S. The two samples in
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Later in 1893 it established its District Headquarters in Georgia. Today‚ the Salvation Army is embarking on 125 years of “Doing The Most Good” in Atlanta‚ Georgia. Since that time the Salvation Army has expanded its services by helping the communities by providing temporary housing and shelter to families‚ single men and woman‚ partnering with Ft. McPherson and the Atlanta Veterans Medical Center are providing housing for all qualified military needy veterans. Many of our military men and women
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The ethics of social work are values that we as a nation should live‚ sleep‚ eat‚ and breathe by. An important value in my life is self-determination. This value is present in my life because I always strive to make my own decisions and choices. Along with my own self-determination‚ even though family and friends continuingly ask for my advice‚ I encourage them to ultimately make their own decisions. This value will help me in my professional work because as a social worker‚ they encourage their
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physiological and safety needs of his family. Since he is the sole provider and unable to find work the family may lose all basic physical needs and the client’s’ perception of what could happen views as failure to provide protection and stability. Unfortunately‚ the negative feeling of not being able to provide causes the client to pull away from the family; continually leaving the house to seek work‚ but is out drinking with friends. Moreover‚ when he returns home does not speak to anyone‚ showing
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