Self-Reflection Value: 20%
Desсrіption: This assignment will help you assess your strengths to advance your professional skills, highlight your values, and evolve as a social service worker. This will also be helpful material to reflect upon during job interviews.
Part One
1. Choose and critically reflect on one strength you have demonstrated in an interaction, meeting, or program with a client or peer in your current placement. Describe the scenario in detail, including all people involved (while maintaining confidentiality) and your responsibility or role in the situation. Explain what you have learned from this situation.
2. Identify and discuss the social service work skills required to handle this situation. Please provide examples of how you used them and how they were helpful.
3. Identify and discuss the social work values and ethics required in this situation. Describe how they played a role in the outcome of the case.
4. Name the most relevant theory or approach you have learned about that applied to this situation and explain how it was integrated or used.
Part Two
1. Choose and critically reflect on one area of growth based on an interaction, meeting, or program with a client or peer in your current placement. Describe the scenario in detail, including all people involved (while maintaining confidentiality) and your responsibility or role in the situation. Explain what you have learned from this situation.
2. Identify and discuss the social service worker skills you need to develop to handle this situation more effectively. Give examples of the skills you could have utilized for a different outcome.
3. Identify and discuss the relevant values and ethics and evaluate how you could have used them for a different outcome.
4. Name the most relevant theory or approach you have learned about that could have been applied to this situation to improve the outcome.
Requirements: Use APA citation format throughout your paper, including in your reference section. The paper should use two citations from your course readings (any courses you have taken this semester). The page limit is 5-7 pages. Please adhere to the page limits of this assignment. No pages will be marked past the page limit.
