Self-reflection Report on Issues of Child

Running head: ISSUES OF PROTECTION
Issues of Protection
Name of the Student
Name of the University
Author note

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Table of Contents
Introduction......................................................................................................................................3
Description.......................................................................................................................................3
What happened?...........................................................................................................................3
What social welfare skills I used.................................................................................................3
Personal experience.........................................................................................................................4
What was I thinking and feeling..................................................................................................4
How did I communicate with employees and service users........................................................4
Ways I practice without discriminating and with respect............................................................5
Evaluation........................................................................................................................................5
Positive and negative of the experience.......................................................................................5
Analysis...........................................................................................................................................5
Sense that I can make from the experience.................................................................................5
How it helped to develop practice wisdom..................................................................................6
Confrontation...................................................................................................................................6
Values, beliefs and assumptions did I carry................................................................................6
How do they differ from the values, assumptions and beliefs of others involved.......................8
How do they connect to wider social and political forces...........................................................8
Ethical implications.....................................................................................................................8
Reconstruction.................................................................................................................................9

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What ways I think differently......................................................................................................9
What could I have done differently.............................................................................................9
What will I do differently next time............................................................................................9
Conclusion.....................................................................................................................................10

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Introduction
Child abuse and negligence in raising them is becoming a social issue day by day in the
land of Australia. The purpose of this self-reflection report is to highlight the issues of child
abuse and how the situation can be improved by raising the awareness among the parents along
with the practitioners who will be guiding the victims to come out of their phase of agony and
pain. This report includes a description of the case study, an analysis of the situation, evaluation
of the situation and a detailed confrontation section along with a section of reconstruction.
Description
What happened?
From the secondary source, it was seen that there was a little 7 years old girl being raised
by a 23 years old single mother. The family does not have a stable source of income and to
support the family the mother has to do odd jobs and even had to choose the path of prostitution.
The ambience of the family is dreadful for a growing child. It is seen that uncontrolled use of
tobacco, alcohol and drugs are present in the family either by the mother or by known people of
the mother is affecting the development of the child. From the secondary source of information,
it was seen that the family currently resides at a small apartment in a poor living condition. The
main arguments of this report are to highlight the factors of child abuse that has been seen in the
provided short film.
What social welfare skills I used
To identify the issues of this assignment, I had to critically analyze the key stages of
interaction with the client as a practitioner. I had to draw a strengths approach to determine the