My Personal Statement Of Social Work Philosophy

Personal Statement of Social Work Philosophy
Autobiographical Sketch As a soldier, I was deployed three times. I probably should have gone to see some kind of counselor after my first deployment. I did not. After my last deployment, my fiancé and I started arguing over trivial things. I realized that I, a self proclaimed home-body, no longer wanted to stay at home all the time. I started going out to clubs more and just over to different friends’ who I was deployed with (battle buddies) houses. This was abnormal behavior for me. My fiancé suggested we go to couples counseling. I realized even with couples counseling, our relationship would not improve unless I worked on myself as well. I suggested I go first, and I did. After starting …show more content…
I sent Di a personal message on Facebook, describing my dilemma. She told me she was in London, England and her cell rates would be unbelievable, but feel free to text her. I started to text her with my issues and she told me how she felt personally. She told me that in her opinion, as far as what I wanted to do, a social work degree would enable me to do what I wanted and possibly more without a doctorate degree. She told me with both degrees, I would be required to do an internship. She said she did not know about psychology, but with social work, she was able to get a paid internship. She told me she would suggest the social work degree. The personal characteristic, I feel, relates to the purpose of the social work profession that I have is how I love to help people. I did not realize this was a characteristic I had until I joined the Army. I loved being able to help my soldiers, peers, and anyone who needed it, just because I had a similar experience or I had experience with the situation. I also like knowing that something I did or I was able to help with makes people happy. I feel like sometimes people trying to …show more content…
I also want to see people do well. I love to see acquired independence make people feel happy and fulfilled. I am a persuasive person. I believe I have the ability to inspire people to do things maybe they never thought they could do. A weakness I have is feeling less joy about helping someone who is making no effort to help themselves. Also, I am not a hugely empathetic person. I aspire to help people, but preferably people who make an effort to help themselves. I think the fact that I am a wounded healer is a weakness. I probably have not worked out every issue I need to have worked out. The fact I am a wounded healer is strength, I think, too. Since I have personally experienced many things, I think I will better be able to counsel others on things I have experience with. My end goal is to go to law school to become a criminal defense attorney. I realize though, every student who wants to go to law school never makes it. My degree then must be for something I am passionate about. I want to help soldiers and veterans cope and deal with issues that I do not feel can be handled can be handled by someone without the same experience. I was able to receive a more than adequate amount of help from someone who had never experience what I had been through. She was awesome. I feel like if she had had a similar experience, it would have been five times better though. If I do