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Collect at least three news articles highlighting agency/organization programs in the various fields of practice.
500-750 comprising the following:
Explain how programs reflect the goals and objectives of social work.
Describe how they correlate with social work and social welfare characteristics.
Pick a social work topic and develop seven qualitative interview questions to gather more information from your participants in a study. Attach interview questions and explain why you picked these questions and what information you wanted to gather. (1 Page).
How did you develop your interest in social work?
Identify your personal qualities, strengths, and weaknesses that you consider relevant to your future career in social work.
What areas of social work practice appeal to you as possible career fields? Why?
Social work is a profession committed to anti-racism, diversity, equity, and inclusion and to advancing human rights and social, racial, economic, and environmental justice. Knowing this, share how your personal, volunteer, community involvement, education, and / or professional experiences led you to choose social work.
Social work is a profession committed to anti-racism, diversity, equity, and inclusion and to advancing human rights and social, racial, economic, and environmental justice. Knowing this, share how your personal, volunteer, community involvement, education, and / or professional experiences led you to choose social work.
independently review and summarize a research-based article from a professional social work journal. Suggested journal titles are located on Canvas. The articles are to help you more fully understand the role of social workers in your chosen field of practice. The reviews are to be 2 pages in length, typed, double-spaced. The review will include:
A summary of the theme of the article,
A summary of the main points, findings or conclusions in the
How this article helped you learn about your field of practice and
What you understand now about specific practice activities of social workers from reading
Social work is defined by its origins both in the provision of charity and the fight for social justice. How would you characterize social work as you have experienced it today—is it more like “old style” charity, or is it a movement toward justice?
Thinking about the communities where social workers form relationships, what do we gain and what do we risk losing by adopting a professional social work identity? Consider the following in your reply: the ramifications of practitioner-client power imbalances, establishing professional credibility or clout, and the call to act in solidarity with those who experience social and economic injustices.
What are some ways that you, as a practitioner, can mediate the tensions between professionalization and the commitment to challenging structural racism, sexism, and other forms of structural oppression?