What Are Some Career Alternatives for Social Work?
Question by chikeymonky: What are some career alternatives for social work?
I have a BA in Social Work and minored in Psychology. Currently, I work in the training/education field. Can anyone suggest other career opportunties?
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You don’t say where you’re located or what your licensure is. I work at a community mental health facility and our social workers do anything from case management, crisis intervention, rape crisis, vocational training, group work, alcohol and drug counseling, and with an LISW they even do counseling. There are also social workers at Human Services, Children’s Services. and I have a social work instructor that has a private practice.
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According to the US Dept of Labor, here’s some of the career options for someone with a social work degree:
*Child, family, and school social workers provide social services and assistance to improve the social and psychological functioning of children and their families and to maximize the family well-being and academic functioning of children.
*Medical and public health social workers provide persons, families, or vulnerable populations with the psychosocial support needed to cope with chronic, acute, or terminal illnesses, such as Alzheimer’s disease, cancer, or AIDS.
*Mental health and substance abuse social workers assess and treat individuals with mental illness or substance abuse problems, including abuse of alcohol, tobacco, or other drugs. Such services include individual and group therapy, outreach, crisis intervention, social rehabilitation, and training in skills of everyday living.
*Other types of social workers include social work planners and policymakers, who develop programs to address such issues as child abuse, homelessness, substance abuse, poverty, and violence. These workers research and analyze policies, programs, and regulations. They identify social problems and suggest legislative and other solutions. They may help raise funds or write grants to support these programs.
*Other career options for social workers include teaching, research, and consulting. Some of these workers also help formulate government policies by analyzing and advocating policy positions in government agencies, in research institutions, and on legislators’ staffs.
*Some social workers go into private practice. Most private practitioners are clinical social workers who provide psychotherapy, usually paid for through health insurance or by the client themselves. Private practitioners must have at least a master’s degree and a period of supervised work experience. A network of contacts for referrals also is essential. Many private practitioners split their time between working for an agency or hospital and working in their private practice. They may continue to hold a position at a hospital or agency in order to receive health and life insurance.
*Through direct counseling or referral to other services, social workers help people solve a range of personal problems. Workers in occupations with similar duties include counselors, probation officers and correctional treatment specialists, psychologists, and social and human services assistants.
*A good friend who has her social work degree runs the employee assistance programs for a number of corporations, and use to work as a chaplain assistant in a hospital, a youth program director at a church, and worked in a group home for runaway teenagers.
For information about career opportunities in social work, contact:
National Association of Social Workers, 750 First St. N.E., Suite 700, Washington, DC 20002-4241. Internet: http://www.socialworkers.org
Good luck!
HEROIN ADDICTION IS ONE? OF THE COUNTRIES WORSE PROBLEMS! I FEEL REALLY SORRY FOR THE VICTIMS OF THIS DRUG TRADES CABAL! TROOPS PROTECTING HEROIN? YOU SHOULD ALL BE IN A CCA PRISON SLAVE CAMP FOR PROFIT FOR NO LESS THEN 20 YEARS!
CAN’T GET RICH ON HEROIN IF IT’S LEGAL? RIGHT OBAMA?
I believe drugs ought to be made legal,but not in the same way? alcohol is.If a person wants to be able to purchase extreme drugs like heroin or meth, I believe? they ought to be rigorously educated and pass tests proving their knowledge,THEN be licensed.Hallucinogens should also be licensed, but differently; mainly to screen for people susceptible to? mental illness, such as bipolar or schizophrenia.MDMA I think should be similar to alcohol. We can’t regulate all substances with 1 blanket policy
What is he? My daddy? SHUT? THE FUCK UP. You can’t tell people what they can and can’t do. He doesn’t even mention anything beyond Drunk driving, which is illegal, smoking — a long time human tradition, and seatbelts?? Did he even say the word “marijuana” throughout this entire thing?
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Well I wouldn’t say good riddance. But hay, if that will win the argument than good.?
neither one of them is worth a red cent besides all the extra revinue we have to cut off those greasy cartels legalize is the only way even heroin and coke meth whatever give em all they want they? overdose they die good ridance! FREE THE FUCKING WEED!
Not everyone does the herb, i use? to smoke up a lot, altho it be cool through legalization and cheaper product to experiment with other ways to use the plant through cooking and stuff.
Most? of you like this bullshit?Shame on you!
We get to vote between this and? Romney. Some options.
Why not all drugs? Don’t? individuals have a constitutional right to put whatever they want in thier bodies as long as they know fully how harmful the substance is, and don’t harm anyone else?
the question should be solely about the legalization, regulation, and control? of marijuana. not ALL drugs
Boy did he dance out of that? one without saying one word of any fucking substance! Hope and change, assholes.
This guy smokes cigs and used to smoke pot so what he says about? the issue is totally illegitimate.
I hate the guy but it makes? sence. But I guess it depends what side your on
Hemp could be a MAJOR industry and the corporate? globalists dont want to threaten what they allready have going…..
note that he’s not speaking on marijuana directly, but all government categorized drugs. In that aspect, I agree with him. Chemically treated compounds like heroin or cocaine are not worth legalizing, however we do need to focus on changing attitudes towards such substances. What’s different about cannabis is that the US has spent years, literally DECADES trying to “change people’s opinions” on it, and it just doesn’t work. We know the benefits? as well as the consequences. We STILL. GET. HIGH.
“Changing people’s? attitudes” that just scares me.
I like the way he tip toes around the answer…. its not something hes in favor of? but its something worth looking into!!!!!!
You should see what obamas answer looks like through Vocal Stress Analysis….. wow… you can even tell from all his stuttering during? most of his speeches he is lying almost 80% of the time he is talking…. its interesting….