A Day in the Life: Social Worker

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Instructions

Read through a Day in the Life of your new job. Use the word bank to drag and drop the missing words into the correct spot to complete the worksheet.

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You get to the clinic at 8:00 am, a little earlier than usual, to prepare for a busy day of 1. ______________________  with clients. As you are the first one to arrive, you start a pot of coffee before heading to your office. While you wait for it to brew, you check your inbox and phone for urgent messages. At 8:30 am, Claire, a young client you have been seeing for 2 years, arrives to give you an update on her situation. She enters your office with a grin—things have been improving! Claire’s mother has recovered from her long illness and is now able to care for Claire’s 2-year-old son while she studies to become an x-ray technician. You discuss financial options and look at recent photos of her son. As you update her 2. ______________________ , you think about how you love getting such positive news first thing in the morning! Next, you head downtown to interview a new client, Sam, at a cafe close to her job. She is a recovering heroin addict, and you ask her questions about how she has been feeling during the 3. ______________________  process. You jot down notes while she speaks so that you will be able to type up a detailed update for her file when you get back to the office. At 11:00 am, you swing by a government housing unit to assess whether it will be appropriate for a low-income family that recently lost their home in a fire. The property manager is very friendly and you spot an elementary school nearby—both encouraging signs. Back at the office, you call Rita Smith to tell her that you may have solved her family’s housing crisis. You heat up some leftovers and discuss a difficult case with one of your colleagues over lunch. His client, a teenage boy with ADD, has been increasingly violent with his younger siblings and his mother has asked about anger management classes. You offer advice on the situation based on the many troubled teens you have worked with. At 1:00 pm, you dial in to a conference call with a high school principal, a police officer, and a concerned parent to discuss a client’s truancy and vandalism. You settle on an 4. ______________________  for the young woman and book an appointment to discuss it privately with her later this week. Next, you head to the local college, where you will deliver a presentation to a social work class about how to connect with 5. ______________________  youth. Based on the extensive questions they ask afterwards, you can see that the stories have moved them deeply. You offer them some parting words of encouragement; you remember when you were in the same position, nervously wondering what you were getting yourself into! Back at the office, you make a call to a foster parent to check up on how an 8-year-old client has been adjusting to his first week in the 6. ______________________  home. The parent explains that the child has not spoken a word since moving in, and you update his file with a suggestion to refer him to an art therapist. At 5:30 pm, you turn off your computer. It has been an emotionally challenging day, as usual, but you love helping people to improve their lives in any way you can.