Reflective Essay: My Emerging Social Work Identity

As I read the “Team STEPPS makes strides for better communication”, some of the tools like; (SBARQ) is used in many organizations, especially during patient hand-offs. It provides a systematic way to convey patient information, which is essential during high-stress situations. In a stress situation, taking responsibility to prevent human errors. As ANA code of

The FMC and Clinical Supervisor provides social benefit and works hard to straighten and empower the client and their family but also to their team members under her supervision. The FCM and Clinical Supervisor are open and easy to talk to. They are ready to provide ideas and solutions to assist her team with difficult cases and is also open to shadow meetings if necessary (attend a client meeting with assigned staff.) Not only is their focus on the client and their family but is an

Where as role balance was defined as satisfactory fulfillment of all valued roles (Backman, 2010). It is extremely hard to balance all of my present roles and the occupations that go along with them. As I mentioned before having the extremely valuable roles of being a student and friend and family member can create a role conflict. In order to try and remedy this situation I set aside time to complete the activities associated with each

Michael White and David Epston observed and believed that the way people tell their stories reflects their emotions and motivations. A therapist must lead with a learner’s stance meaning from a place where the therapist learns from the client. With older clients encouraging the narrative and learning from their experience helps to identify values and histories of successful coping. Narrative therapy uses anti-hierarchal dialogues. The therapist facilitates the client as “expert in the room”.

However, in social work, communication has been attached with utmost importance to social work. Communication and social work are interrelated entities which get interlocked most of the times. There are researches and firsthand experiences that highlight the importance of communication skill in social work, but, it can also be understood with simple arguments and discussion. As, it is fact that social work has direct contact with society and its members, so in the course of helping them with any issue or difficulty, it becomes highly important to use communication in accurate and effective way. The right use of communication will accelerate the process of improvement and faulty or ineffective communication will produce opposite results (Massat et al,

During sessions, the client and Speech-Language Pathologist work together to remediate the speech problem. The Speech-Language Pathologist provides techniques for the client to use during therapy and at home so the client can help fulfill the Speech-language Pathologist goal. It is important to have this skill, especially client-pathologist relationship, to be able to communicate efficiently so the client knows and understand what is expected of them. Strong interpersonal skills are not only important for client-pathologist relationship but for colleagues and other professions. Being the fact Speech-Language Pathologist interacts with other professions daily, the Speech-Language Pathologist has to have good interpersonal skills to relay information

This case analysis is primarily about the work I undertook with a young person and his family. I was allocated the case quite early on my placement. Initially, I struggled with it because I did not have enough knowledge of the support the agency could give. Working with this family had been very challenging, but I gained a lot of experience which had reinforced my professional development (D1,D2). To adhere to the Code of Ethics for Social Work, I got an informed consent from the young person and his family to use their information for this assignment.

In the previous video I practised particular counselling skills, which when combined, increased the support given to the client. As I provided the client with attention, by having an open body language, nodding and using hand gestures, they continued to speak about the situation and how it is affecting them. I was then able to paraphrase and ask open questions which the client answered, going into further depth as I had, and was, showing that I was paying attention. By challenging the client through questioning, we were able to discuss and identify the main problem for the individual and create an action plan in order for the client to reach their goals, feeling a sense of progression.

Socially Influenced Growing up my parents raised me with values and principles to follow throughout my life. However, society proved to be a lot more complicated than just values and principles. Society is made up of a plethora of factors that influence and shape individuals for better or for worse. Race, religion, gender, place of birth are just some of the social factors that can influence people. The 3 main factors that heavily influenced who I am today are, my race, gender, and where I was born.

I have participated in some empathy development strategies, such as developing interpersonal and interviewing skills and learning from empathetic role models. After reading this article, I am more aware that I must foster positive peer relationships and receive supervision and feedback from mentors. I must also take time between each patient interaction to reorient my attitudes and to remind myself that every patient requires empathy and