HDFS: My Future Career As A Social Worker

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For my future career, I plan to work as a social worker. By having a degree in HDFS it will provide me with the stepping stones/foundation to pursue my master’s degree in social work. According to the bureau of labor statistics website, “social workers help people solve and cope with problems in their everyday lives” (www.bls.gov). Some of their duties are: identify people and communities in need of help, assess clients’ needs, situations, strengths, and support networks to determine their goals, research, refer, and advocate for community resources, such as food stamps, childcare, and healthcare to assist and improve a client’s well-being, and develop and evaluate programs and services to ensure that basic client-needs are met. …show more content…

According to the book, “family science is different from such fields as sociology and psychology because family science focuses on family and relationships, it takes a multidisciplinary/interdisciplinary approach to studying families and it values application of knowledge (Walsh, DeFlorio, Burnham, Weiser, 21). In addition, I also feel like having a degree in HDFS will also help me have a better understanding of various developmental stages an individual or family maybe transition to or in.
To become a social worker does not require a master’s degree or doctorate degree, just a bachelor’s degree in social work(BSW) or related field. However, if I chose to become a clinical social worker, a master’s degree will be required plus two years of experience in a supervised clinical setting. In addition, I will have to be licensed in my

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