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Self Awareness: A Career As A Social Worker

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Self Awareness

The turning point in my life which led me to seek my MSW, the role I was currently in did not fulfill my heart desire. I have had a desire to help people my entire life. Working in various roles in health care that allowed me to take care of individuals whom were elderly, sick, and now working with children who have a mental illness or behavioral issues has allowed me to fulfill part of this desire. Desiring to be an advocate for individuals such as the elderly, and those individuals whom are mentally ill has made me realize that what I am doing is not enough to support these individuals. So pursuing my long life goal of being a master social worker will allow me to be that advocate for the elderly and mentally ill.
However, as a victim of sexual abuse and reporting my perpetrator and still …show more content…

Volunteering allowed me listen to the elderly tell their stories, read, talk, and get to know the older population who were unable to function in their own homes. By the age of 18 my love for being around the elderly sparked a flame in my body that made me wish to take care of the elderly so I trained at this same nursing home, and became a geriatric nursing assistant, certified medicine aide and continued up the health care ladder but still feeling the void that this was not enough. Pursuing an associate’s degree and then a bachelor’s degree in Behavioral Science believing that this degree would give me the opportunity to be what I always dreamed of being and that was to be a social worker. Currently working as a community interventionist at a mental health facility allowed me to gain experience as a case manager by assisting therapist with children and adolescents who have behavioral and mental issues has made me realize that I am on the wrong side of the fence. Having a desire to do more and then reporting to one of the therapist that I worked with, that something was going on with a kid and hearing them reply I do

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