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Today was an excellent day. I was able to assist several clients at one time. It’s actually a funny story. I had an appointment with a client at nine am. I thought that the appointment was going to be over by at least nine thirty. My client continued to ask questions, even though I had finished assisting him with what he had set his appointment for, which was assistance with job search and SNAP. I was trying to end the conversation because I wanted to tell him that we were out of time and that he…
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For me personally, the visit gave me a much better and boarder idea about the roles that social workers play. Having spent 5 months as an intern at Boys’ Town Singapore, a residential home, my idea of a social worker is someone who plays “parent” to his or her client. At Boys’ Town, the social workers indeed does help to play the role of a parent to the boys’ under their charge. They are also the boys’ link to the outside world, helping to make appointments with the judicial courts, conveying any…
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Social Workers, from the Child and Family Services, recommended that I attend counseling sessions to better process the advanced situations I was experiencing. Though I have not consistently attended counseling since then, I believe that talking through…
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I have been looking forward to starting my first Social Work placement since last year but somehow things were not organised as well as I thought, communication breakdown was a factor also. This resulted in me starting placement a day later than my peers. Knowing I had started placement a day later than my peers made me feel rather anxious and unprepared. I felt as if I was missing out on something as I was posts over social networking about how enjoyable their days had been. I even felt that I needed…
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critical reflection is core to social work practice as it can lead to ethical and accountable practice. Furthermore, critical reflection in social work can challenge assumptions, beliefs, values, theories, and underlying knowledge either from our own individual upbringing or stemmed from societal attitudes and perceptions (Agglias et al., 2010). Drawing from this, Gibbons and Gray (2004), further discusses that critical reflection involves creative, lateral and analytical thinking as social work practice…
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well-being. At this stage of my life Social Work is what I am most interested in practicing because it provides opportunities for me to work in many different settings with people whose problems, issues and needs are diverse. My second choice would then be guidance counseling which is the process of helping individuals discover and develop their educational, vocational, and psychological potentialities and thereby achieve an optimal level of personal happiness and social usefulness. I am interested in…
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I am deeply committed to the services of others and more specifically to the service of our troubled youth and their families. The social and financial disparity has caught up with our nation and we are now faced with hardships that are both alarming and inspiring to the social work field. Although I grew up in a small country town in Western New York, I was quickly immersed into the troubles our youth are facing today. Within the first year of graduating from undergraduate studies I was forced to…
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Since the beginning of my second year I have undertaken 50 hours of work placement at Cardiff Metropolitan University. Over this duration I have managed to coach both hockey and skiing to junior athletes consistently. This has helped me develop and discover useful work-based skills than can also be transferred to other lines of work. Sports coach UK provides the coaching industry with a common vision to push the development of outstanding coaching practice. The focus of this assignment is to critically…
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Journal Writing / Reflection Rubric Name: ______________________________ Class: ________ Journal Writing Checklist: |I have written in full sentences. |I have made connections beyond the classroom. | |I have made detailed observations. |I have used my personal voice in my writing.…
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University ID No: 10492294 Name: Micheal Tate SCW186 Foundations For Social Work (14/AY/AU/M) Stage One Assignment 1 Study Group Leader: Andrew Wills Submission Deadline Date: 13 Nov 14 Word Count: Section one – 589 Section two – 399 Section three – N/A Section four - 1998 Table of Contents : 1.0 Learning log extracts. 1.1 15 Oct 14 - Empathy - A conversation that went well. 1.2 21 Oct 14 - Study group - Difficulty in openness. 1.3 04 Nov 14 - Service User - Conversation Feedback.…
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