Personal Statement: A Career In Social Work

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The field choice that I have chosen to pursue a career in would be social work. The social work field includes a wide-ranging variety of responsibilities ranging from providing support in problematic and emotional situations and significant change in one’s life, to clinically identify emotional behavior or mental health conditions in personalities. Social workers help to manage the situation at hand. They advocate for an individual and seek out means of help for the affected person. Social workers are divided into two categories: direct service and clinical (licensed or mastered) social work. Within these categories mentioned there are a large amount of positions that focus on a particular population; Therefore, a worker may want to focus