Social Work-E

If you use a conservative definition of a caring person who comes alongside someone to determine their needs and help them work out their problems and get back to self sufficiency, Yes, a Conservative would make a good Social Worker but a liberal would not. The liberal would not be willing to get personally involved in the problem. They would not want to go outside their job description and help someone in need that didn't fit their program, and if they work for the government, they would not be allowed to. The Conservative approaches the client with the belief that the client can change and the Social worker can help make that happen. The problem lies in the fact that attitudes developed through several generations of dependency on government welfare have made those attitudes difficult to change and have resulted in large numbers of dependent people, which makes it very difficult for the small number of caring Social Workers to deal with adequately. It is very difficult to spend the time needed by each client with such numbers. When I worked for the Salvation Army, I saw 100-150 clients a month and had very little time to spend with each, since I also have a great deal of administrative work to do. Normally Salvation Army Social service offices are connected with their churches and the officers in the church help the social workers but their was no church connected with my office. Churches have the resources but have largely yielded the field of Social Work to the government and is not utilizing much of its human resources.