Social Work Narrative

3084 words 13 pages
Show More
Personal Narrative Statement

1) How do you account for your interest in social work? In your response, discuss paid or volunteer experiences that support your choice of social work as a profession?

My interest in social work developed during college. I always had a interest in helping others in one way or another. I joined a sorority in college, Delta Sigma Theta, which is based off of community service. During the week I would volunteer to tutor children that were struggling in certain areas of school. I would talk to these children and explain to them the importance of education and try to influence them as much as possible to try their hardest in everything that they do. I would also go to nursing homes, with other member of our …show more content…

They provide food, shelter and clothing for those that are down in their luck because of unemployment, disabilities or all other poverty related issues. There are a wide variety of activities that can be considered social work and professional social workers are employed in many different environments but they all possess one common goal and that is “helping people”.
4) The concept of cultural pluralism emphasizes respect for diversity of values, heritages, customs, and lifestyles. We are interested in your experiences with people from diverse populations. For each of the following diverse groups, describe how you have worked with each. If you have gaps in your exposure to diversity, what is your plan to broaden your effectiveness to work respectfully and effectively with each of these populations?

a) Ethnicity (race, culture) – I have worked with many different ethnicities and cultures in several way. I have worked with different ethnic groups at work, school and everyday life. As a minority, I was raised to treat everyone how I would like to be treated so outside of their physical appearance I look at everyone as my equal. I have different ethnic backgrounds in family which does not seem to be uncommon at all in these days and times. I believe

Related

  • Narrative Therapy
    1594 words | 7 pages

    Abstract This paper will look at the logic of narrative therapy by focusing on 5 major points. This paper will begin by discussing how the narrative approach defines and perceives problems. It will address how narrative therapy views the nature of the relationship between the client and the professional. This paper will look at how problems are solved using the narrative approach. It will also focus on three main techniques used in narrative therapy, which will include externalization, deconstruction….

    Show More
  • Ideologies, Narrative, Stereotypes and Discourses
    2268 words | 10 pages

    interactions with, others—and a “structuring structure”—it suggests and constrains our future actions (Bourdieu, 1992). In other words, habitus is both the “embodiment of our social location” (i.e., class, ethnicity, race, sexuality, gender, generation, and nationality) (Noble & Watkins, 2003) and “the structure of social relations that generate and give significance….

    Show More
  • Self Reflexive Aspects of Singing in the Rain
    2228 words | 9 pages

    Singin’ in the Rain (MGM, 1952) is an American musical comedy directed by Gene Kelly and Stanley Donen. The film comically emulates the transition from the production of silent movies to ‘talkies’ in Hollywood during the 1920s. The narrative follows a successful silent film star named Don Lockwood (Gene Kelly) and his glamorous blonde on screen partner Lina Lamont as they attempt to adapt The Duelling Cavalier a silent film, into a talking film. However, the shrill sound of Lamont’s voice cast serious….

    Show More
  • Case Study of a Childs Play and Development
    1946 words | 8 pages

    or distinct from your brain? Are its responses limited? Play cues, play frames, temenos, the concept of a metaludic space. Making Play Work as a practice model is explained. Practical work with very young children. Exercises in non-confrontation, play related engagement, Looking on; parallel play; joining in; simple social play; complex social play Day 2 Tuesday 9th Feb C210; from 09.30 to 16.30 ish iGoogle how did it go? Do use the storage space offered. Nearly 8GB….

    Show More
  • Surrealism
    1509 words | 7 pages

    essay will examine the relationship between surrealism and artist film, cinema and gallery work. An art film is a motion picture originally created for a confined audience as opposed to a mass market. Art films provide opportunities to display unique conventions independent from mainstream film.They’re clear differences between the two movements film presents a clear purpose of action opposed to the social realism style often seen in art films where the focal points are the imagination and cognitive….

    Show More
  • Comparative Study of Wuthering Heights, Translations, and I'M No Scared
    2099 words | 9 pages

    attitudes, social rituals, and structures. Coming to grips with the general norm of the society with in each texts and how the characters behave enables me to enjoy each text all the more. Understanding the world in which each text is set in and thus being able to compare the aspects of their society and what is involved in….

    Show More
  • An Analysis of the Jungle by Upton Sinclair
    1395 words | 6 pages

    appears in the form of a call for Socialist reform. As the narrative progresses we are first introduced to a society of two classes, the rich capitalistic entrepreneurs and the working class who labor beneath them. As the story progresses we are constantly bombarded with the plight of the working class and countless examples of the rampant corruption possessed by the then modern day capitalistic system and the political machine that seemingly works hand in hand with it. When the main protagonist of Sinclair's….

    Show More
  • Critical History of "As I Lay Dying"
    2991 words | 12 pages

    themes of his and other Southern authors included: a common Southern history, the significance of family, a sense of community and one’s role within it, the Church and its burdens and rewards, racial tension, land and the promise it brings, one’s social class and place, and, sometimes, the use of the Southern dialect. The criticism of the novel has changed over the years with critics using everything from Psychoanalytic theory to Marxist theory to explain the importance of language and the historical….

    Show More
  • Midnight's Children Salman Rushdie
    1862 words | 8 pages

    Midnight’s Children Awarded the Booker Prize in 1981, Midnight’s Children is Salman Rushdie’s most highly regarded work of fiction. Rushdie was born on June 19, 1947, and his birth occurred simultaneously with a particularly meaningful moment in Indian history. After almost one hundred years of colonial rule, the British occupation of India was coming to an end. Almost exactly three months after Rushdie’s birth, India gained its long-awaited independence at the stroke of midnight on August 15….

    Show More
  • Little Crow
    1218 words | 5 pages

    Lakota Nationhood and he teaches U.S. Survey and Native American history courses at University of Oklahoma at undergraduate and graduate levels. Anderson is credited for co-editing with Alan R. Woolworth on the publication of, Through Dakota Eyes: Narrative Accounts of the Minnesota Indian War of….

    Show More

Popular Essays