Social Work

Description: QUESTION 1 We’ve discovered ourselves, our own defenses, and things we don’t see in ourselves that others see that helps us assess the boundaries of our own human experience. Interestingly, the outcome of these exercises IS NOT to make changes, but discovery through self-reflection. This kind of philosophy stimulates the process of “knowing” through thinking, sensing, feeling, and being. It is not enough to just read; we have to integrate into our own being in order to response in the most therapeutic way to the other. We know that, for our clients, part of their discovery is to have them explore themselves to help define and affirm their own identity. Saying by our interactions with them that they are sufficient—with all that are—to solve their own problems, to find empowerment, and to have a life of quality and worth. Without that ability, they will continue bouncing around within the same experiences, doing the same things, making the same decisions, and experiencing the same unfulfilling outcomes, over-and-over again. We do not want to tell them who they are, we want them to discover that for themselves. If we tell them, we are directing them. They end up with little insight, little courage, and little flexibility to evolve to something more—therapy is more actualizing than that. With this understanding, reading beyond the book: 1.Social Work is founded in empowerment and strength perspectives (reference, pages 5-6 in your text). How does your comprehension of your own vulnerabilities (like defenses and secret sides of self) promote empowered practice for you as you attempt to help the client find meaning? You would be drawing on information in Chapter 1 to form your answer—but go deeper, using reflection.. 2.explain how you would go about discovery how client identity impacts your assessment of your client, and how you would help your client discover the significance of their own identity to being their best empowered self? This is also about taking the reading to a deeper level of integrated experience. You are not just reading the material, you are shaping yourself as a social work professional. QUESTION 2 E505 Human behavior experiences. You have seen how values and experiences have shaped who you are: The perspectives and degrees of conservatives or liberalism, the significance of family influence, and the cost of social trauma/stress on the self. Which integrating frameworks are explained by Human Behavior Theory? Explain your answer. For: A. Your values? (e.g., my values related to liberalism or conservativism) B. Your family influence? (e.g., the sustaining experience of family-of-origin) C. Your stressors, pressures, and traumas of lived-experience? (e.g., traumas/stressors large and small that may impact us as we live.)