Social Work Skills and Responsibilities in Singapore
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Running head: SOCIAL WORKSWK106e Introduction to Social WorkSocial WorkStudent’s name:Student’s ID:Name of the university:Author’s note:
1SOCIAL WORKTable of ContentsIntroduction......................................................................................................................................2Coreskills........................................................................................................................................2Core skills 1: Active listening:........................................................................................................2Core skills 2: Critical thinking.........................................................................................................4Professionalcompetencies...............................................................................................................5Professional competence 1: Identify as a professional social worker and conduct oneselfaccordingly......................................................................................................................................5Professional competence 2: Engage, assess, intervene, and evaluate with individuals, families,groups, organisations, and communities..........................................................................................6Conclusion.......................................................................................................................................8Reference List..................................................................................................................................9
2SOCIAL WORKIntroductionSocial worker's duties are challenging, yet it is a rewarding career. In addition, socialworkers take the responsibilities to help the individuals, groups and families to cope with issuesthey are facing in life. Social workers can do direct counselling to families and patients and theycan broader their responsibilities. The social workers need to deal multitude issues of individualsand they need to handle critical situations also. In this view, in the first part of the essay, twocore skills will be discussed highlighting my values and competencies. In the second part of theessay, two core competencies of a social worker will be explained.CoreskillsIn developing core skills, some skills are common and one must have natural commonsense to do work like a social worker. In this sense, social workers should have qualification. Core skills 1: Active listening:One must give full attention in other people's opinion and say. Active listening skill isone of the major skills that social workers should possess. The social workers should take time tounderstand the views about what opposite person is saying. The social workers can ask valid andappropriate questions not interrupting the flow of discussion (Dubois & Miley, 2012). In thisregard, active listening skills are must have in social working career that can engage the clientsto talk freely without hesitating to share information. Processing actual information can help thesocial workers to solve the issues of the client easily and provide proper support. Active listeningis important as the speaker must feel that his/her opinion is valued and listening can be taken as avital feature in interpersonal communication.
3SOCIAL WORKSince my childhood, I have possessed the qualities of active listening and people love totalk to me. Moreover, in my school life, I was the one to whom all my friends shared their issuesand I liked to resolve their problems and support them. I would like to link individuals withresources and my activities to achieve the goals. I can advocate benefits one can have from socialworkers and social workers need to communicate with having the skills of active listening.According to Flexner (2011), active listening is about listening genuinely to the clients andresponds the individuals accordingly. Additionally, I believe that listening to other person comesfrom the heart and a listening ear that can feel sympathy for individuals. It is important to make arapport with the clients in no time that can create a sense of friendship and closeness to the clientand from a sense of trust, the client can share his/her feeling comfortable. While listening, Iwould like to sort out problems of the client and it can be helpful to resolve them together. Sinceteenage, I have had an open mind and I never judge people according to their views. Each personhas their own sayings and perception.However, in professional life as social worker, I need to build up active listening skills. Inthis sense, I can listen to speakers facing to them and maintain eye contact. In addition, I need tobe attentive. Social workers must listen to words and try to understand voice tone that would bebeneficial about picturing what speaker is saying (Kirst-Ashman, 2010). Interrupting may causestop the flow and I would never impose my solutions to the clients. In case of developing theskills, I have been practising with my academic friends in group studies and with my familymembers. I am also an active member of an NGO that provides me opportunity to create activelistening skills.
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