Social Work Practice Analysis
Sue said in, Becoming Culturally Competent in Social Work Practice “It is crucial that social workers understand and be able to share the worldview of their culturally diverse clients” (Sue, n.d, pg 26). The goal of this assignment is to understand how culture, power, and privilege have been influential in my own personal identity and how I engage with clients in social work practice and how they engage with me. Alan Watts once said, "trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth", and As professor Eager said it would, this paper needed a great deal of reflective thought.
What is personal identity? This question has been asked and debated by philosophers for centuries. Trying to form an assessment of who I am, and why required a great deal of …show more content…
When I had this bright idea to do a scared straight program, I reached out to my brother’s best friend, Jordan. Because he was in Prison, I thought he could provide me with some valuable perspective as I worked to develop a program. I couldn’t believe how polite, considerate, and compassionate he was. It turns out he was in a group home himself from the ages of 12-18, taken away from his family by DCF after he told his teacher at school how his father and grandfather had together been raping and molesting him.
There are significant number of reasons and things helping to develop the sense of identity on the part of people. Some of them influence this process positively, and others have the negative impact on identity formation of people in the modern society. A remarkable role in the process of identity formation is attached to the society, such as family and peers, the so-called every-day environment of people, and therefore is always changing slightly. As James Baldwin, a U.S. author once quoted, "An identity would seem to be arrived at by the way in which the person faces and uses his
What is personal identity? This question has been asked and debated by philosophers for centuries. Trying to form an assessment of who I am, and why required a great deal of …show more content…
When I had this bright idea to do a scared straight program, I reached out to my brother’s best friend, Jordan. Because he was in Prison, I thought he could provide me with some valuable perspective as I worked to develop a program. I couldn’t believe how polite, considerate, and compassionate he was. It turns out he was in a group home himself from the ages of 12-18, taken away from his family by DCF after he told his teacher at school how his father and grandfather had together been raping and molesting him.
There are significant number of reasons and things helping to develop the sense of identity on the part of people. Some of them influence this process positively, and others have the negative impact on identity formation of people in the modern society. A remarkable role in the process of identity formation is attached to the society, such as family and peers, the so-called every-day environment of people, and therefore is always changing slightly. As James Baldwin, a U.S. author once quoted, "An identity would seem to be arrived at by the way in which the person faces and uses his