Choosing Social Work

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This paper attempts to determine whether modern-day social work students have different career objectives and goals than the early 20th century social workers. The paper explains that there are those who measure social work idealism and the other factors that influence BSW and MSW students. The paper examines this topic through a research study. which covered a broad range of ideals to determine levels of idealism and influential factors like altruism, professional concerns, and influence of others among modern social work students.

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"There is a need to understand why individuals who experience psychosocial trauma are compelled to apply their energies and life work to the field of social work. There are indications that these individuals are more likely to experience burnout in the course of their employment in this field than those who have not suffered psychosocial trauma in their development as those who have not experienced this psychosocial trauma do not have the extra "baggage" due to the experience. However, there are other schools of thought that hold the belief that those who have survived these psychosocial experiences in development have developed a certain resiliency and therefore may be better suited to handle this type of employment than previously thought."

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