Reflecting on the learning experience:
Willingness to be there for the other is like being there for the next person, to help and reach out to the client. Provide help to the person in need is the central theme of the social worker. Social workers differ to their willingness and what they do for clients, this employs a variety of research tools to explore their differences. They found greater willingness to seek help to be directly associated with greater professional commitment and indirectly associated with enhanced upward career mobility. It seeks help in the context of the initial phase of the helping relationship and incorporated the dynamics of help seeking into the concept of engagement (Faatz, 1953, Smalley & Bloom, 1977). Recent research has confirmed the willingness to request help means a personal trail than a consequence of situational determinants (Cohen, in press, Cohen et al, 1998). Empathy is defined to understand and share feelings of another. It is described as active from when an individual feels with another human, where sympathy is described to be a passive form when and individual feels for another human (Shulam, 1999). The role of the social worker focuses on the social interaction between and with people, they experience this a lot during their practices. Empathy is seen as a symbolic phenomenon which may be expressed during their course of the interaction between the social worker and their clients. In the student’s case she had to conduct an interview with her client to discuss the problem of her client and face the problems that he faced and the emotions and feelings he felt, with that she could not involve her personal life or any emotion with his case.
Supporting evidence:
The intervention report phases one and two has evidence to the above statement because it both takes part in gaining trust and getting to know the client, could be found int the link below:
CONSULTED REFERENCES
Cohen, B, 1999. The willingness to seek help. Its Role in Social Workers’ Professional Commitment, pp. 21-22.
Cohen, in press, Cohen et al, 1998, Faatz, 1953, Smalley & Bloom, 1977 & Shulam, 1999.
Lazo, D & Vik, E, 2014. Faculty of health and occupational studies. Reflections on Empathy in social work practices.