The Importance Of Consciousness In Social Work

Consciousness of self refers to people’s awareness of their own personality traits, values, strengths; as well as ability to be mindful self-observers; knowing all aspects of our personality
(Fincher, 2009). It also includes being aware of interactions of self and all aspects of environment. It is important to note that consciousness of self is not self-consciousness.
Consciousness of self gives confidence in oneself, and self-consciousness is related to insecurity in oneself. Notably, there is no end-point of self-consciousness; it is a way of living.
Consciousness of self is critical in social work practice as it requires conscious internal and intentional action. For example, at my youth care worker job, I facilitate a primary group and

To have a deepened self-awareness, it allows us to work well with others, and can include how our gender and culture affect interactions. Having self-confidence allows us to take on challenges and responsibilities, and understand strengths and limitations within our work.

A working application of new skills, allows us to improve ourselves in practice and to use our strengths for the groups benefit. Expanding motivation will allow us to get involved and address issues that are most important and critical to social work practice. As social workers, we can use ourselves as a tool in social group work. We can analyze what is happening around us, our thought process, and how we contribute to the process of group work. This involves a consciousness raising of self to increase awareness of self, environment and cliental.
2) Trauma informed practice focuses on helping clients manage distress to have better day to day functioning by the practice not being mainly focused on their intervention but focusing on the client’s past trauma and understanding how it effects their daily living without it being overwhelming or counterproductive for the client. The three challenges that workers usually come across with clients is them not admitting to their past trauma because of embarrassment or when the client has little or no memory of the past trauma. Secondly, since workers are