Interviewing a Social Worker

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Interviewing a Social Worker My interview with a social worker proved to be very interesting. The social worker I had the pleasure of interviewing was Ms. JoAnn Stovall. Ms. Stovall has been a social worker for the past 10 years, she also teaches addiction counseling at a local community college. She has been in her current position a little less than two months as a social worker/case manager. Back in 2006 Ms. Stovall received her master’s degree as a social worker. Ms. Stovall felt that if she became a social worker she would be able to help more people and make difference. It surprises me when Ms. Stovall stated that the one thing that she wishes she had done more of during her years at school was to have read all of the books and material that was assigned and not just scan over most of the reading. At this point in the interview I am thinking wow her reasons for chosen the career field that she has is a lot like the reasons I have deceived to go back to school and do what I want to do, and the stories that she shared about her school experience is like looking back into my own school experiences mainly the scanning the reading assignments due to working full time. I was a little taken back when Ms. Stovall talked about the challenges she face in her line of work now, she states that her code of ethics and her heart for helping others sometimes clash with each other. One example that she told me I found very interesting was a time when one of her clients at the facility that she is work at, a client that had been making great strides in his recovery got laid off from his job and during the time of his unemployment was looking for work, this same young man came into her office to talk with Ms. Stovall about how bad he is feeling because he have not found work and his daughter’s birthday is coming up and he don’t have any money to get her a birthday
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