Essay On Social Work Values

Before reading the chapter written by Allan Barksy, I had a different understanding of my values. Entering into the social work profession is providing a different outlook and definition regarding values. In the social work profession values are not only personal, they must also include my client’s values. For example, I will be working at Child Net during my field internship. Child Net is a facility for children that are abused, neglected, molested, and other situations that I will be exposed too. These families may have values similar to mine, but their values may be viewed differently. Emotional security was one of my highly desirable values for Table 1.1. After giving this some thought regarding the situations I will be working with, emotional security will be hard to maintain working at Child Net. I say this because my

I have always made this my number one priority. From the time I had my first child, I believed children do not ask to come into this world and it is the parent’s responsibility to take care of them to the best of their ability. In the field of social work we will be faced with many situations and some, I am sure, will cause great anguish. For example, in the news media within this past week social workers have been put on the spot for children being murdered by their parents. One of the parents was a father that had custody of his children with a good job and a good provider. This parent killed all of his children. Did the social worker look at the father and assumed based on his/her values that the children were in safe hands because he had a job and provided for the children? Would the social worker have felt differently about the situation if the parent was living in poverty? It is important not to let my values or personal thoughts get in the way of similar situations and to be alert or a sense of