I’m a student from Ahuntsic College, I’m actually in youth and adult correctional intervention program, which is to support supervise and help some people with a deviant behavior whether youth or adult. In Canada, especially in Montreal QC, when you get your diploma from this program you can choose to work with kids in youth center or with adult in jail and many other places. Studying for youth and adult correctional intervention can also be closely related to social worker, both have the same bases.
The work of
those people is to support people in need, in moral and physical types of ways.
They help people with a lot of variety of problems, related to human right, for
example. Everyone can help others but the difference is that for social workers
they get paid for something valuable for everyone. They refer their clients in
many organizations, but it’s important to the client to trust their social
worker otherwise those families in need lose interest to get helped. In fact,
over 1/3 of those families decided not to attend to their appointments.
Sometimes those cases can cause a big loss of energy for the social worker
creating a bigger investment from them and not from the clients. Social workers
want to help all the problems of these individuals at the same time, that
create a high level of stress they have to resolved their problems one step at
the time.
In general,
social workers need to have a Bachelor’s degree or something equivalent to
social science. The higher you want to get in this job, the higher education is
required. The most important fact to become a social worker, is to have a good
approach with individual and a good knowledge of sociology.
For those
new social workers, they are more likely to get a successful job because they
are hired to implement the programs services and they are several programs
available to help their clients. They are creating new jobs by working outside
of rural sectors. The fact that they got a good training from college and
experience in social field give them better job opportunities. Which makes the
job harder is that the Government make a lot of cut reducing accessibility to
programs for the clients.
When they
first started they can love or get to stress out by this job, some workers get
to emotional and quit their job after some years of exhausting work because
they want to help a lot of people but it’s unrealistic. For those who stay in
this field tend to get more specialize and will be upgraded by the years having
more people in theirs case load and having more responsibility in this job.
References:
- http://www.princetonreview.com/careers/143/social-worker
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