School Social Worker
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Apr 3, 2024
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Bernadette Barela
AC2304096
English Composition 1
Assignment 6 En120
08/23/2023
The career I hope to follow is a School Social Worker
A professional responsible for helping students, parents, and school staff, identify problems that impede learning. To successfully address emotional, social, and academic issues so that students live a healthy, safe, and balanced life is the ultimate goal. Their personality and schoolwork are usually affected when students experience a dramatic lifestyle change. With the help of school social workers, students receive help such as crisis intervention, counseling, and prevention programs that provide them a chance at academic success. Other duties that I would perform would include: communicating with parents, teachers, and administrators, assessing areas in which students may need assistance or counseling, helping students function effectively in the environment of school, evaluating student transcripts, maintaining accurate case files and reports of student progress and issues, participating in the Individual Education Plan (IEP) process. I would need a variety of emotional, cognitive, and professional skills. While many school social workers have a natural aptitude for these skills, it’s vital to enhance them throughout your career.
Active listening a school social worker must have the ability to reflect on what students say and be engaged in every conversation to ensure they feel cared for and safe. In addition to assisting
our students, their parents, and teachers, social workers provide case management services. Giving clinical case management and psychosocial services requires organizational skills and the
ability to prioritize based on the urgency of a student's needs. Understanding students emotionally, culturally, and intellectually is important in school social work. Empathy is the ability to imagine oneself in the situation or circumstances of another person. Each student manages a unique set of problems that require a unique solution. That's critical thinking, and that
is why critical thinking is vital in social work. After determining the problem that the student experiences, school social workers must be able to think critically and creatively to come up with
practical solutions. Each case has a social worker who uses analysis, creativity, and logic to identify the strengths and weaknesses of different approaches and look for a solution. We must also be good at managing time, handling multiple cases and administrative tasks at once, and making sure the students receive the attention, care, and service they need. I believe a benefit to school social workers is to communicate, especially those assisting students who struggle to understand things due to emotional stress or learning disabilities. In summary, school social workers not only provide direct services to students who require basic needs and/or exhibit challenging behaviors. It leads to prevention efforts that support students in school and the world setting. I also know that some of the challenges that I will face include being unable to fully resolve the problems they encounter, working within a system that often lacks adequate resources, and shouldering the emotional burdens of students and their families. I know that it's not all going to go as planned. like all professionals, sometimes make mistakes. They may disclose clients' confidential information inappropriately, fail to respond to clients' reasonable requests, or engage in improper relationships with clients. It is something that I will have to work
on to not do so I can help my students.
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