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Why do I want to be a social worker? We have been asked this question from the very beginning
of the class, and to be honest, I thought this question was going to be quite repetitive
and annoying by the end of the class, but now that we are here, I am glad that we have
been asked it so many times. Each week my answer changed. We have learned about health
and health as a human right that can easily be dismantled only if you are a social worker.
Until now, I did not see health as a human right. But being social workers we are doing
so much more than just helping people with their emotional and stressful situations.
We are also working towards a promotion of health, which I had defined as teaching others
about how important health is to us and how much we need to achieve good health in order
to maintain a positive lifestyle. Health as a human right can be dismantled by not keeping
up with a healthy lifestyle. When one is weak, tired, and hungry, their ability to work on
the rest of their lives slowly vanishes as well. When they get to a place as dark as
this, it is hard to come back, and what is worse is our society can make it harder for
them to even try. This is one reason why I want to be a social worker- to help those
that are stuck in the darkness have an easier transition back to light. This shows how amazing
we are as humans and the resilience we can endure by being able to bounce back after
something that has brought one down, emotionally or physically.
We are all searching for human dignity and self- worth within ourselves, but our clients
usually have a harder time reaching it. Our clients are going to come from vulnerable
populations, in my definition are, a group of people who are/feel defenseless when dealing
with a way of living, which makes them more prone to problems. Our class and every other
social worker out there is in the category of a diverse cadre of professional social
workers; we are all coming from different places, backgrounds, and education working
together in a skilled and trained manner. We are learning how to break down the barrier
that is keeping our clients from gaining their human dignity. I believe, from being in this
class, empowerment is the number one way to break down this barrier. Empowering our clients
with the strengths-based approach is such a vital and important way to prove to them
that they are worth fighting for themselves. We have and will have so many clients who
don't have enough confidence in themselves, but it is our job to show them that they are
capable of changing their circumstances, hence another reason why I want to be a social worker.
Of all the articles I read in this class, I chose reading the ones that had to do with
the populations I hadn't worked with, such as refugees in America and people living with
***. I chose these articles because I wanted to know more about something that I was unfamiliar
with in this field. I learned how we are struggling with maintaining a global and also local equity,
which is fairness all around the world, from country to country, or from neighborhood to
neighborhood. The key information I will take from these articles is that when there is
someone like a refugee, or a man living with *** in the same neighborhood as others, they
are probably having a harder time than we would imagine. They get stares, remarks, hardships
at work because of what they are, problems in relationships and much more stressors than
the average person. As a social worker, I want to be able to help not only the clients
move past his, but help others see that they are normal people like the rest of us. I want
to be a social worker to achieve social justice by gaining rulings in our world where others
are getting the recognition they do or don't deserve, and also by learning from our past
in such cases, in order to make the future right.
These are just a few reason why I want to be a social worker, but mainly it is because
I want to be able to help others the way I have been helped. One person can change the
rest of our lives, and I hope that one day, I can give that gift to someone else.