AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL STATEMENT

AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL STATEMENT

Paper details Please type submit a statement that will allow the Social Work Department to understand more fully your interest in the field of social work (five to six pages). Please include the following information in your narrative. 1. Your family and significant family relationships. 2. Your life experiences, which have shaped your desire to go into social work *If you have ever had a traumatic experience, please discuss your journey of healing, your current process of management/self-care, and how this experience may affect your engagement with future clients. **If you know you have a criminal charge or conviction, please include this as well. 3. Provide previous examples where you have demonstrated leadership, advocacy, community engagement, and/or related paid/volunteer experiences, including to those with backgrounds and characteristics different from your own. How do you deal with diversity and value differences? You will need to commit to providing compassionate and effective help to all people. Are there any people you could not commit to learning how to help? Support your responses with examples. 4. Your academic and career goals along with your plans for achieving those goals. 5. Address how Micah 6:8 applies to the practice of social work. 6. Using the 12 main social work roles, explain what roles you see yourself excelling in and how you anticipate performing them. What roles do you find yourself needing growth? (See Roles and Values document attached in Blackboard) 7. What are the 6 social work values? Please compare and contrast your personal values and the social work values. Which social work value(s) do you think would be most difficult to integrate with your personal worldview? Please describe how any of the social work values may conflict with your worldview.