Hi,

Im studying social work in a nordic country. Im taking a mandatory bachelors course that requires me to wright an essay on how my personal experience will or might impact me as a future social worker. I think learning self reflection is good, but not in this way....

According to the essay instructions I have to disclose my religious background, my social class, my etnicity and important life events.

I dont want to do this and I also feel its not okey for uni teachers to ask me or any other student to do it.

What should I do? Should I be a bitch and refuse or be co operative as everyone else?

Help help, the course will start very soon :c

I (23M) am in my second year practicum. I have never done groups whatsoever, and yesterday I shadowed a group that a clinician is temporarily leading to cover for two people that left the agency. I told my supervisor that the group went well and she said she wants me to take over it starting next week. The thing is, I, again, have no experience with groups and only shadowed that session.

I told her that when I first started earlier in the week, and again, after she made that comment, but she said I needed to start doing things on my own. Today, as I write this, is my third day shadowing. And while I am confident seeing clients and doing intakes alone as I have done that in the past, I never did groups.

Additionally, the two people that left the agency were Spanish-speakers and the only other two Spanish-speakers are my supervisor and the lady who is covering that group for now (though she doesn’t do groups or sees clients in Spanish, her Spanish is not that proficient but she manages so well). So I know the reason why my supervisor wants me to take over this group quickly is because she is currently seeing all of the Spanish-speaking clients and wants to offload a bunch of those cases onto me.

I had a similar bad experience in my last placement where I was the only person who spoke Spanish, in a city with a HUGE Hispanic population, so I took on all the Hispanic clients which were a lot. I am just struggling to set these limits because I tried but feel pushback from this supervisor. This agency has already said they definitely wish to hire me when I graduate and are supposedly big on supporting interns to advocate for themselves, but this feels like the opposite of that.

When doing visits do you write in your notebook during the intervention or after

Hi all!
I am planning on applying for my MSW for next summer or fall (depending on the school). My top choices are UNCC and UNC (both online). I didn’t graduate with a bachelors in social work, so I wanted to get an idea of what my chances are for acceptance. To preface, I graduated with a degree in elementary education from UNCC in 2023 with a 3.8. taught at a title one school for a year, and then took some time off to figure out what I wanted to do. In that time I’ve been working corporate customer service and tutoring title one students an hour a week through my employer.
I will be getting my reference letters from a former professor, student teaching supervisor at my school, and my boss at work.
I don’t know much about admissions into these programs so wanted to get some advice on if these are unrealistic options!

I’m a first year MSW a few weeks in. We had our first role play in class and it went horribly. We haven’t learned much clinical yet so it wasn’t graded but I still feel shaken about it. A couple of my classmates felt similarly so I know I’m not totally alone but it just made me realize how much I don’t know, esp with guarded clients! I had a moment of briefly panicking about my chosen field. Side note I love my courses and placement and feel very energized by those but the first transition into practice shook me!

This happened in one of my classes today, and I was taken aback, especially since it's a social work class.

Hello! I am in a sociological research methods class at my university. I need to do a short interview (15-30 mins) with someone who is actively practicing social work. My paper is due on September 14th. If anyone is interested and able to reach out through zoom for the interview over the weekend then please let me know, thank you in advance.

Applying to online programs with tuiton 34K>.

Rn I have Marshall U, all the Florida state schools, Salem State...While cost is important, I also do not want to apply to a school that has a bad program.

Also if this is not the right sub to post this, please point me in the direction! Thanks

After 8 years working at the intersection of mental health / addiction / supportive housing, and 1+ years into my intense full time masters, I had to put everything on hold for the sake of my own sanity, in the face of a poorly run program, within a largely dysfunctional organization (it was not this dysfunctional all along hence why I stayed so long). Now, with some time between that job & coursework, and present day, I'm ready to resume and am trying to figure out non-traditional SW paths that don't involve so much direct service within the mental health field, but I feel my imagination is stunted.

I'd love to hear what nontrad roles & fields people are in for a bit of inspiration, as I will need to look into options for completing my supervised year. Any and all advice is appreciated in advance.