Social Work With Children Youth And Families

Running Head: SOCIAL WORK WITH CHILDREN, YOUTH AND FAMILIES
SOCIAL WORK WITH CHILDREN, YOUTH AND FAMILIES
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SOCIAL WORK WITH CHILDREN, YOUTH AND FAMILIES1
How do you think your own experience of ‘family’ affects how you would practice your
social work with children, families and young people?
The family is the most important unit of one’s life, and is the most important a component in
one’s process of growing up. The family is the first informal group that an individual comes
across, and is the only consistent unit in one’s life. Therefore, it is the most influential part
and lays all the major important foundations in one’s life. The family is the source of an
individual’s values, morals, principles, and all the interpersonal skills, that an individual
consists. Also, the communication skill, that one have, also, get its base from communication
pattern involved in the family. However, the family structure is most influential upon the
personality of an individual and the emotional intelligence that one holds. Also, the habits,
behavioural patterns, and the approach towards of life, that one has, all stem from the
structure of family (Miller & DiMatteo, 2013). Therefore the approach one has towards, his
or her family, also stems from the communication pattern and structure of the family that one
has.
While growing up, my family had also had an influence on me. Since I belong from a join
family structure, therefore, I have a very integrated family, and the bond present among all of
us, are quite strong. We have always decided about a situation related household or related to
anything any other issues, and no decision were ever imposed any of the children of the
family. Even upon a wrong doing, hardly, the children of our family would get a scolding,
rather it was always a discussion which was involved. Therefore, this particular aspects of
growing up had helped me a lot when I involved myself with the social works. Bing a
sociology student, I chose my career as a family counsellor.
I work as a child, family and youth counsellor, and offer assistance and guidance and
suggestions to the parents, guardians or the youth of the society. As it can be observed, that in