Social Work Thesis Statement

My name is Erica James and I am here today to talk about the Social Work profession and what it has not only done for me but for others and what it would mean to me to become part of the MSW program. I believe that so much of our life is affected by how we were raised and the experiences we had during childhood. Regardless of whether we are ever able to comprehend fully many of the events, our emotions and opinions are real. From birth we are placed in a social setting among things that have us either more vulnerable to living a beneficial or dysfunctional life. Society continues to create wide forms of social injustice that delay gradual change towards individual well-being and human equality. However, the ambition of gradually overcoming

To me there are many core values in social work but from my studies five have really stuck out. The primary goal of the profession of social work is service, and I mean to help, address, manage, and resolve numerous social problems daily. Social workers help people daily with different problems, from drug abuse to child abuse and many in between. Not only do they help people but we put them be for ourselves and try to do the best for them, sometimes even for free. Another main goal of social work is social justice, becoming a social worker means that you have an essential desire to improve the lives of people who are less privileged or unable to support for themselves. Social change efforts in social work are mostly focused on unemployment, poverty, discrimination, and other forms of social injustice. Numerous social workers choose to enter the line of social work because they spot the need to help underprivileged, vulnerable populations, for example homeless, those struggling with substance abuse issues or also victims of domestic violence. Rendering to the Code of Ethics of the National Association of Social Workers, social change efforts in social work are mainly

I had a lot of things going on in my head that I did not know what it meant and I thought I was different but I could not understand why. It was not till I got into therapy that I learned not only how to cope with my depression and anxiety and how it could make me stronger but the urge and want to help others like me, who are going through what I went through. I also want to make a difference in lives of many different people not only who suffer from depression and anxiety, but child abuse, drug abuse, criminal behaviors and so much more. I want to make a difference in our social work profession to help others deal with life easier.
I would say my personal qualities to help me in the social work profession, I do not judge. It is not my place to judge anyone, I am there to help the best way that I can. I call about all people not just one race but all people, it should not matter what you believe or what your skin color is we are all human and sometimes we all need help at some point in our