Social Work Reflection

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Today was an excellent day. I was able to assist several clients at one time. It’s actually a funny story. I had an appointment with a client at nine am. I thought that the appointment was going to be over by at least nine thirty. My client continued to ask questions, even though I had finished assisting him with what he had set his appointment for, which was assistance with job search and SNAP. I was trying to end the conversation because I wanted to tell him that we were out of time and that he would have to set up another appointment in order to speak to me about his other concerns because I was on a schedule. I was thinking about the best possible way to tell him I had other appointments. I escorted him to the crowded lobby in Feed My Sheep and that’s when I notice that over half of the clients in the facility wanted to see me for job search assistance. …show more content…
I did remind myself that we are two different people and that maybe that was something secretive that he didn’t want people to know. What seem important to me may not be important to him. I told him that I would see what I could do; I wanted to tell him that I could do it. However I didn’t want to make any promises to him about anything. Our conversation lasted about five minutes before a crowed of three familiar clients shouted a greeting to me from the front of the room and asked me if I wanted to buy some bootleg DVDs. My thought to their rude interruption was that maybe I should have taken the conversation elsewhere because he might think that I wasn’t treating him fair, but in realty I was. My office was occupied, he said he wanted to talk for a second and he said he was in a hurry. I did not compromise his confidentiality or the NASW code of ethics. Even though this was a very short meeting it had a big impact on me because it made me realize that everyone’s idea of emergency isn’t what I think it