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Midterm Reflection Paper

Midterm Reflection Paper

Q Reflection is central to social work practice and education. The profession understands reflection in practice as a necessary component that allows us to know ourselves more fully and to continually review our work with clients and the processes by which we may effectively accomplish our work. For this assignment, you are asked to reflect on your work with either a specific current or previous client system and address the following, keeping confidentiality in mind: 1. Summarize the case, including the client’s reason for social work contact. Briefly describe the setting including your understanding of the fit between agency policies and the client’s needs, wants, or problems. Use the heading : Case Stummary 2. In retrospect, discuss what has challenged or facilitated you most regarding your work with this client. You may wish to consider how cultural, racial, ethnic, linguistic, and/or religious factors facilitated or challenged your interventions. Did any ethical questions or dilemmas for you arise out of this work. Use the heading: Challenges and Factors 3. Describe how discrimination and oppression associated with gender, age, disability, sexual orientation and other issues may have affected the social functioning of your client and impacted on your work. Did any ethical questions or dilemmas arise for you out of this work. Use the heading: Effects of Discrimination and Oppression 4. As you reflect on your work with this client, what theoretical approaches guided your work? What guided your actions, and how did this better the conditions presented by the client? Use the heading: Theoretical Approaches 5. What could you have done differently? Reflection takes place as we attribute meaning to our thoughts and actions, not necessarily the events themselves. Use the heading: Reflection 6. How would you describe reflective practice? What did you learn about yourself from doing this assignment? Use the heading: Reflective Practice Answer each question separately. Your answers must be supported by the social work literature cited using APA 6th ed. style. This assignment is worth 15% of your course grade.

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