My commitment and motivation to study for masters in social work is a direct result of my experience as a healthcare assistant. I am very passionate about improving lives of vulnerable people by empowering and liberating individuals to enhance their well-being. Currently‚ I work as a healthcare assistant in a medium and low secured mental hospital. I provide support for patients who are detained under the (1983) Mental Health Act. My role involves putting care plans into action. Example‚ time management
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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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Professional Values and Ethics Learning Team A GEN200 November 15‚ 2010 Lisa Wittenhagen Ethical standards and an individual ’s personal code of moral values are extremely subjective topics often based on belief systems. Furthermore‚ upbringing commonly influences an individual ’s code of ethics thus affecting important personal and professional decisions. Renowned Brazilian professor Valdemar W. Setzer once said of moral values‚ "Ethics
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examine my own values and beliefs relating to the individual receiving care. I will also explore the values and beliefs that will underpin my future practice as a nurse. Values are ideals‚ attitudes and beliefs held by individuals or groups to represent what they consider to be important. They are used to guide behaviour as are morals‚ which provide standards of behaviour where a decision about right and wrong is required (Chitty 2005). It is believed that professional values learned during
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Professional Values and Ethics Values and ethics are foundational to any successful organization. Values are the standard against which society measures good and bad‚ the desirable and undesirable and the concept of business ethics is knowing what is right and wrong and then doing what is right. Important decisions are made every day in the work environment and every decision will have a financial impact on the company whether the choice is positive or negative. A company will assume the values
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the East side of San Jose‚ where I graduated from James Lick High school. It was a very tough school when I attended despite all the obstacles I still managed to graduate. I moved on to San Jose City College where I obtained two degrees‚ an AS-T in Social Science and the other in Liberal Arts and then moved on to San Jose State University. I am the first generation to have attended a four-year University. I am the daughter of two immigrant parents that came to this country 26 plus years ago from Mexico
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Personal Goals There are many reasons why I chose a profession in the social work field. Some of the reasons why I chose to work in this area stem from my childhood experiences. As a child‚ I was pretty much on my own‚ my parents were pretty much absent and I had to take care of myself and sometimes them‚ I also took care of my siblings. The only teacher I had to encourage me was my 7th grade Social Studies teacher‚ Mr. Schaal‚ (he was killed in a car wreck after I started high school) with no guidance
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Professional Values and Ethics Professional ethics and values are important in the business environment to promote satisfaction to employees and clients‚ effectiveness with business strategies‚ and good for professional moral. Since business began‚ there have been unfair business practices promoted by "successful" professional business people. This conundrum brings into question what professional business values and ethics are‚ how one attains and maintain these practices or qualities‚ and what
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Social Work research can affect the validity and how reliable research findings are‚ which affects the outcome of research hypothesis. My personal biases came in the form of opinion that I had regarding Individuals and families on the Welfare which I was unaware of before I started my MASS program. I had the notion that everyone on the Welfare were lazy‚ refused to work because they enjoy collecting free benefits from the government. If I was supposed to engaged in a research Why individuals and
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Personal Statement Social work wasn’t the most obvious choice for me when I was trying to figure out what I wanted to do. For the longest time I thought I wanted to be a marine biologist but then I got to thinking about it and realized I don’t really like the ocean and I didn’t want to move that far away from my family. So then I was set on becoming a vet. I looked all into it‚ what schools I could go to‚ how much I would make‚ everything. Then I job shadowed a vet in town and got to watch her perform
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