Social Work Essay: Personal Reflections, Experiences, and Career Goals

This essay provides a personal reflection on the student's journey towards social work. The author describes their childhood experiences, shaped by their father's profession, and their early exposure to individuals in need. This exposure sparked a desire to help, leading them to pursue social work, particularly the psychological aspects of the field. The essay highlights the student's interest in helping individuals with mental health issues and drug abuse, emphasizing their belief in effective communication as a key skill. Despite being a fresher with limited experience, the student discusses their internships, non-profit work, and the development of communication skills. They also share their personal story, including their upbringing in Haiti and the challenges they faced in pursuing education and independence, and how these experiences influenced their decision to enter the field of social work and achieve their dreams of helping others. The essay concludes with a description of their aspirations to work with the mass, and for the needy people of the society.

Running head: QUESTION ANSWER
QUESTION ANSWER
Name of the Student:
Name of the University:
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1.A My entire childhood had been spent around people, with need. Due to the profession of
my father, I had to move to different places, and sometimes he had to move to inclusive
areas, and I happened to be accompanying him. Therefore, I had often come across
people who were in dire need of either food or water or clothes or the like and I used to
wonder how can I be of any help to them, and had always thought that once I am able and
competent enough, I will be helping them and will involve myself completely for the
community people. As a child I thought that God is there for everyone and he will be
helping them, but as I grew up, I realized that it is our duty to help the needy and the
poor. However, in today’s society, even to help the needy and the poor, skills an degrees,
are needed. Hence, I decided to take up the discourses of social work as my subject.
When I got an opportunity to study I was extremely happy and ecstatic as now I could
realize my dream.
2.A In social work, the area I find interest in, is the psychological aspect. A huge area of the
social work section includes the people going through trauma, suffering from mental
illness, or people involved into drug abuse. I think that they are the most helpless. People
who are at a socially disadvantageous position, are more likely to be able to better their
position in the society, but it is the patients with mental conditions or psychological
issues who are in need of the help. Since they are unable to decipher and cognize their
surroundings and their personal feelings therefore, it is more impossible for them to come
out of their conditions. I have often come across with people who are involved with drug
abusing behaviors, actually used to lead a normal life, and it is the mishaps or the
situations that have made theme how they are, and I feel very compassionate towards
them. Hence I think I will be a better suit for this kind of social work responsibilities.

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3.A In case of resolving a conflict situation at the workplace, or at school or may be within
the family, I include an effective communication approach. I always believe that
communication can be really helpful to guide and solve certain situations. However, there
are times when the situation or the issue is extremely serious and there are certain layers
involved, then I aim at asking for help from someone senior to me, who have a better
understanding of certain situations.
4.A Currently I am a fresher. I do not have any experience or knowledge in the field. My
final term is left yet. Since it is a full time course, I could not have worked anywhere or
could not have been involved with any organization. However, I have done certain
internships in the similar field. While continuing with my studies I have worked with a
non- profit organization, in the psychodynamic field and have come across with a number
of case studies, which have instigated me more to join in this field. Hence, I am searching
for opportunities and applying for positions in the same filed.
5.A I am not sure of any of my strengths considering this particular field since I have not
been involved in the field and it is not possible to understand, until and unless I
experience difficult situations. However, I do possess a good communicational ability
which I think, is a strength of mine. Considering the limitations, I will say that, my
limitations are my strengths and they keep me going. If I come across a difficult situation,
which is difficult to solve through my abilities and skills, then I ask for from someone
who has experience and better knowledge of the situations, and thus learn and thrive. I do
not stop until I exhaust all possibilities and this limitation motivates me and keeps me
going further.
6.A Short Essay-

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My name is Lillian Morrison and I had a very harsh and difficult childhood. I was borne
in 1980, and had been brought up in Haiti, and it was a slate as 2000, that I had come to
New York City, looking for an opportunity in the college. The journey from Haiti to New
York was it really easy. My father was not only strict but also conventional in his
approach.. I have seen my mother and grandmother, who was quite her age, work
rigorously. They were street vendors and all through their life they only worked, and even
bow, they are involved in the same profession. We were never rich, not that we were
poor, but not rich. I had barely got the basic education, and I could only go out with my
mother or my family members, hence I had no friends. Having no proper education, I
could have never been to college. According to my father girls do not need to study, and
hence, nobody had ever taken acre of my education. However, my brother had the
permission to go the college since he was a boy, rather he was sent to college, where he
had made a lot of friends. I never had much friends, and I worked with my mother end
my grandmother, and sometime I used to go out with my father or my brother, but never
without them. It was also true for my mother and my grandmother as well. Now, since
many of my brother’s friends used to come to our apartment, sometimes I could find
people to talk to as well, though my father never like any of it. Among them two were
girls, who used to come to our home. I grew a deep friendship with them and they have a
huge role in my life. However my father did not really like the fact that some girls are
coming to the house of boy. However, they had become very good friends of mine, and
we used to go out together. Though, I would have got back home before my father could
get to home, and if he would have found out, the situation would become worse.
However, I could understand that I was becoming frustrated staying at home, and not

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being able to fulfill my dreams. I was talking to my brother’s friends and was having fun
with them sometimes but that was not what I aspired for. Since I was older than my
brother, therefore, I was older to most of his friends, and therefore I was much respected.
However, the two girls, with whom I became very good friends, used to inspire me very
much. The independence and the personality they had used to instigate me to go out and
purse my life in the same way. I always wanted to work with the mass, and fir the needy
people of the society, and I understood that to fulfill my dreams I have to leave home. So
one day I went out with them had come to this foreign land of United States. Initially I
faced a lot of problems, especially with the language, as I could not speak English at all. I
registered myself at a college, where I across a lot of people, and became friends with
some of them, and then it was my friends which had helped me with my studies and my
language skills. Now, I can achieve my dreams. Now I have a good communication skill
and a degree and now I want to join the field of social work.