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Question 1
During the initial stages of my career as a social worker, I had limited knowledge of what
was required of a social worker, according to my original self-statement when I applied for this
program, I believed I had several personality and career-oriented traits that would ease my time
at school and eventually propel me to achieve success in my career. However effective these
traits have been to me and any other student or practitioner around me, I have also come to learn
and incorporate additional personality and career-oriented features whose significance I was not
familiar with during the initial stages of my time here at school. Any other student who is
considering a fruitful career as a social worker or success in his/her graduate degree program in
social work should have a clear understanding of the traits that distinguish an outstanding
professional in this field from any other social worker.
Some of the characteristics of an exceptional professional in this field that I have come to
learn of their significance to my success include; having a dedicated commitment to the global
social work code of ethics. In the United States of America, the National Association of Social
Workers (NASW), which is a professional body that ensures social workers throughout the
country maintain professional standards in their practice, offers the chief objectives of social
work (Bowles & Hopps, 2014). These objectives include the primary mission of social work as a
profession which is to improve the well-being of any human being while at the same time
helping meet their basic humanitarian needs. In my original self-statement, I addressed how
welcome I was to exchange ideas with many like-minded classmates from diverse cultures
around the globe. Although this was in line with the primary objective of social work as a
profession, I did not understand that for one to achieve the admired success in this profession this
open-heartedness to individuals of diverse cultures has to be all inclusive and not only to my
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"like-minded" counterparts. Social work also has to embrace this cultural, religious, tribal and
ethnic diversity so as to eliminate discrimination, poverty, or any other social injustice subjected
to anyone (Bowles & Hopps, 2014).
However good my communication skills are, being a social worker also requires
outstanding...
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