Personal Characteristics of a Professional Social Worker

Social Work Profession
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The Social Work Profession
The social work profession is a practice that is based on changing and improving people’s lives. It enhances the well being of people and makes sure that their basic need is met. The social work profession puts more effort into helping those people who are vulnerable and poor. This social work profession also fights for the rights of oppressed people to help those with mental illness. The profession enhances social change, solving problems in people’s relationships and liberating people. The theories of human behavior motivate social workers to encourage people to interact with the environment.
The following are characteristics of a social worker professional. A social worker should be empathetic. They should have the ability to understand the people to help them. The people the social worker helps most of them are poor and venerable, so the social worker should love and not discriminate against them. A social worker should also have good communication skills. The ability to communicate with a large number of people is very important. Social workers should be able to advocate for the people depending on them, and for them to do this, they must understand the client's needs. They must communicate appropriately with clients regardless of their age, gender, or even disability.
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