Social Work Reflection Analysis

According to Kirst-Ashman and Zastrow (2012) “ a family is a primary group defined as people who are intimate and have frequent face to face contact with one another, have norms (that is expectations regarding how members in the group should behave) in common and share mutually enduring and extensive influences” (Barker, 2003, p.338). Family members have a significant influence on each other rather it is positive or negative. “Families might consist of intact two-parent families with or without children, single parent families, blended families, step-families, or any other configuration that fits our definition” (Kirstman & Zastrow,2012, p.162). When analyzing the genogram of the Fierros family three generations displayed several different

Professional self-awareness is widely considered a necessary condition for competent social work practice” (Kondrat, 1999, 451). As a social worker, I job to ask of us to remain objective by not imposing our behaviors, values, and beliefs of our clients. When addressing “self” it calls for me to understand my cultural background and iron out all biases. Once the “self” is addressed, then I can work clients of different cultural backgrounds. “Practitioners should prepare intellectually, emotionally, and clinically in anticipation of working and serving Hispanic clients” (Castex, 1994,298). The challenge will come for establishing an active neutral role in the beginning. Individual and Family Therapy is a challenge because we are asking people to change something that they believe in. I have come to realize it is not so much about the change but the education. As a social worker, educating the person and presenting the information in a way that gets the person thinking about it in a different way is a success. As a social worker, I will not be able to save and change every person, but if they can learn or re-educate themselves on one topic then I will feel like my goal was