Self-Awareness

Self-Awareness is a key element for a human service worker to possess. Understanding ourselves and our professional use of our self is an ongoing process.

1. Describe your decision to become a human service worker? How old were you when you got your first inkling that you were to be a social worker? What happened? What incidents took place over the years that supported your choice?
2. Your personal history informs your practice so please consider what dynamics from your family contributed to your choice in becoming a human service worker (specific incidents are not required)? How have/will these dynamics impact your work? How do your family and friends feel about your decision to enter a helping profession? What reactions or comments of theirs show their support for your decision? What reactions or comments of theirs have challenged the wisdom of your decision?
3. Thinking about your own personal values which basic social work value do you most identify with, why? Consider which of your personal values would conflict with the NASW code of ethics? How will you work to reconcile this?
4. Describe what would are your strengths, as a human service worker? What are your challenges, professionally? What do you still need to work on to become a more effective human service worker? How will you address this?
   is a key element for a human service worker to possess. Understanding ourselves and our professional use of our self is an ongoing process.
5. Describe your decision to become a human service worker? How old were you when you got your first inkling that you were to be a social worker? What happened? What incidents took place over the years that supported your choice?
6. Your personal history informs your practice so please consider what dynamics from your family contributed to your choice in becoming a human service worker (specific incidents are not required)? How have/will these dynamics impact your work? How do your family and friends feel about your decision to enter a helping profession? What reactions or comments of theirs show their support for your decision? What reactions or comments of theirs have challenged the wisdom of your decision?
7. Thinking about your own personal values which basic social work value do you most identify with, why? Consider which of your personal values would conflict with the NASW code of ethics? How will you work to reconcile this?
8. Describe what would are your strengths, as a human service worker? What are your challenges, professionally? What do you still need to work on to become a more effective human service worker? How will you address this?