Personal REFLECTION ON BECOMING A SOCIAL WORKER

Personal Reflection On Becoming A Social Worker



Personal Reflection On Becoming A Social Worker

Social work is a profession for those with a strong desire to help improve people's lives. Social workers assist people by helping them cope with and solve issues in their everyday lives, such as family and personal problems and dealing with relationships. Some social workers help clients who face a disability, life-threatening disease, social problem, such as inadequate housing, unemployment, or substance abuse. Social workers also assist families that have serious domestic conflicts, sometimes involving child or spousal abuse. Additionally, they may conduct research, advocate for improved services, or become involved in planning or policy development. Many social workers specialize in serving a particular population or working in a specific setting. I am on my 2nd year of my degree course and want to go for social working. I have always enjoyed helping others which is also the main reason why social work appeals to me. I would like to take up social worker profession as it will help me gain a more depth knowledge by working with people who are facing problems such as abuse in families.

During my secondary school days, I participated in a scheme which involves teaching primary sixth children in passing their secondary English exams by practicing verbal conversations fluently, presenting self-written speeches with confidence, basic English skills such as grammar, spelling and tense in Hong Kong Ap Lei Chau Primary school. The scheme has taught me the importance of working as a team by allowing people to role play a debate while we act as spectators, stories and poetry reading and ways to keep the audience entertained and at the same time focuses their attention on you. From this experience, I have developed close relationships with people by understanding the difficulties and hardships they are dealing with as each individual youngster has different problems. (Adams 2002:65-98)

From various travelling incident, I have discovered the usefulness of using the body and signs as a language as we couldn't communicate with the people as they only knew how to pronounce their names in English. This helps me to interact with the deaf and dumb people during my future job as social worker more easily as I have experience.

Recently I served as a camp prefect with Y7s to Kadoorie Farm (along with two to three teachers, the camp prefects assist the teachers in looking after and taking care of the children). Throughout the week, I shared the same room with the Y7s which allowed me get to understand more about them and some problems they experience. Cooking for the Y7s was a great challenge for me, as most of them are picky with their food and it took a while before we camp prefects could convince them to eat. It was also a challenge to guide them in hiking activities; some people injured themselves, while others managed to become temporarily lost! Throughout the week, I did, however, learn a lot ? ...