8/19/2015: The social worker was asked by the nurse to assist a patient, per Dr. R. Sundaram. The patient was requesting a letter to state his competence in supervision of his two children. The Social Worker is not qualified to address a letter such as this and consulted her supervisor about this matter. The Clinical Services Officer, Nursing Service Director, LPN – Team Lead, Dr. R. Sundaram and the social worker met to discuss this patient’s case. It was substantiate that there is not enough evidence available to compose any type of letter addressing the issues that the patient required, because the patient has only been seen twice at our clinic and only first established care on 07/31/2015.…
Facilitator, CFS, therapist, and PP, met with the client and the client’s mother in order to the process of identifying the client and family need and strengths. The client and mother shared that they enjoy their new home. The mother explained that they move to their new apartment last week. Wrap team praised family for the new change. FF and therapist asked why they move apartments.…
Glenn Willan joined Event Health Services in 1999 where he started with Mundaring division which is now known as Eastern Hills Adult division. As well as working at many events each year, he has been an Event Health Services Area Manager, Divisional Officer Training, and Volunteer Development Officer. With Glenn’s expertise in planning large activities, events and emergency activations he has been instrumental during some high stress situations, including being involved in emergency management exercises, sitting on the State Welfare Emergency Committee and being involved in large scale bush fire activations. Due to his commitment and positive ‘can do’ attitude, Event Services have now increased our share of events, meaning we can provide…
After Jennifer completed her introductory psychology classes she did not like the fact that there was no discussion on how to support clients coming into a therapy office. Jennifer went to her mother, who was a teacher at the time and her mother suggested that Jennifer speaks with the School Social Worker at the school her mother was employed at and consider social work. Jennifer did just that, and attended her first social work class. On her first day, of her first social work class, the initial topic was 'when a client comes into your office...". From that day Jennifer continued her studies in Social Work and worked herself to the career she is in today.…
Canadian Social Work Understandings Understanding on the Comparisons Perusing the various Canadian literature and comparing them to my past experiences in child protection enlightened me to the differences in practices between the First world and the third world as created and influenced by Western concepts and practices. First, social workers are bestowed with high power that it must be used with caution. The use of power by the social worker contributes and influences how the interaction between the client and the worker will unravel (Gladstone, Dumbrill, Leslie, Koster, Young, & Ismaila, 2012). For these reasons, various theories employed in practice stresses the significance of consciously minimizing the power imbalance within and while…
To be a professional social worker, I think the characteristics of leadership, cooperative and communication. In my secondary school life, being a head prefect allows me to have communication with other prefects, manage & lead the prefect to maintain school discipline in daily routine and in the event such as Sport Day. Besides, I have been the peer leader in which I have accompanied freshman to take part in adventure-based activities, develop personal potential, assist them in studying and provide them with psychological counseling. I strongly believe that this type of activity launching experience can help me to hold the group activity skillfully and fluently at community center.…
at the end of the week she asked one of the classmates that she sat with at lunch to swing with her at recess. Goal Attainment: 4 b) Client will sit with classmates during lunch time. The client was hesitated to pursue this action step the first week. She reported that she felt everyone sits within their own group already.…
As we started to plan each task and work with our clients, we realized the needs we were intervening with were not the felt needs within the community. We decided to scrap the ideas we had and produce a needs assessment based on the communities’ ideas. We spoke with the counselor, the psychologist, multiple community people, and the school principal. The community as a whole was in need of many different interventions. We decided to focus on the needs within the school aged children.…
Introduction Ian is an eighteen year old male, referred by the Juvenile Justice system for therapeutic counseling due to his conviction as a sexual offender. As a social worker reading Ian case file, Ian’s case history starts after his mother’s death when he was five-years old. Ian’s sister and her husband moved into the family home to assist Ian’s father with his care. While in the home, Ian’s brother-n-law murdered his 18-month old daughter, Ian’s niece. Ian mistakenly confessed to the crime because he hit his niece earlier with a toy.…
A memoir is considered a unique autobiography, which includes a public synopsis of the author’s life, including true experiences of the author. The events chosen to relate are used to connect with the purpose of the book. As the author questions what happened on their journey in life. The author comes to a clear understanding, or clearly understands the lesson learned by it. The author depicts how he/…
Written Summary I am very thankful for this experience counseling with adolescents. I have avoided working with adolescents because I am still quite young myself and was always anxious about the interaction and how they would respond to me. Essentially, the purpose of these videos was to develop a rapport with an adolescent and establish a functional counseling relationship. I was able to use listening skills that showed Matt that I was interested in what he was saying and was actually hearing him not just listening.…
The social worker Kim Mowatt, LSCW, is a graduate of Barry University, Miami Florida. Throughout her career, Kim’s has been involved in policy advocacy position that focuses on the critical aspect of social and economic policy that impact children. Kim Mowatt has formerly worked for the Department of Children and Families (DCF) in a supervisory position, in the Foster Care Department, participating in case staffing for clients that presented with severe mental health or behavioral health issues. Currently, Kim works for the Broward County School Board, Grade K – 12 and train interns from various universities. Much of her work entails writing psychosocial reports that provide extensive family history in order to help facilitate the appropriate placement for students in various educational settings.…
I sincerely believe that today’s educator has a unique opportunity to impact the future of our diverse world. Professional school counselors are educators who share in this great task by designing and implementing comprehensive, developmental school counseling programs that champion the success of all students; however, the school counselor must first take the time to have clarity about their school counseling philosophy and mission statement for the school counseling program. In this paper, it is my hope to clearly articulate my school counseling philosophy, as well as my personal mission statement as an aspiring professional school counselor. School Counseling Philosophy For a comprehensive school counseling program to be effective, there…
This was our last meeting we did ask the students to please continue utilizing the information they received throughout the group process to help the until they graduate high school and possibly college. We asked them to please continue sharing the provided information and skills with their community and friends. Analysis of the Student Social Worker’s Practice The social worker’s in this session assured that the meeting would be in a safe establishment. I made sure that every student was able to share their experience with the group along with one thing they got out of this experience.…
Crisis Counseling This paper will discuss the client Jamila. Jamila presented in counseling with many issues and concerns. The counselor will help the client to identify her immediate needs and concerns. The paper will demonstrate how the counselor will assist the client with prioritizing her needs and developing a crisis plan.…