The Journey Continues……

Week 2-Finding and Evaluating Background Information

                Whew! That is what I have to say after doing this week’s research into my topic, career

opportunities in the field of social work.  What I have discovered while doing my research is that 

there are so many different roles that a social worker may have, if you haven’t narrowed it down to a 

specific category, you are in trouble! That is where I am, in trouble! I did however broaden my 

knowledge of career paths for social workers. I found that if you are interested in child welfare you 

could work with adoption agencies, child day care facilities, foster care agencies, and family 

preservation agencies, in addition to the most common Child Protective Services (CPS) that everyone

has heard of. I also learned that if you have an interest in School Social Work, you may not work in a 

school, but rather an early intervention program or special education placement offices. Lastly, and 

most importantly, I learned that Clinical Social Workers work in almost all aspects of Social Work, 

including, but not limited to, Alcohol and drug abuse treatment, individual and family counselling, 

grief counselling, victim services, corrections, aging, child welfare, health care, and group therapy. 

With that said, my blog focus has now evolved, from this point forward, toward a focus on clinical 

social work. 

          

         While doing this assignment I learned a whole lot more than I had in mind. I know, how could

you have too much information? Well, I guess it wasn’t too much information, just the wrong

information. I used Gale Virtual Reference Library and I also did several advanced Google searches

(which I had never done before), to do my research. I also restricted my searches to .edu, .gov, and 

.org domains’ in order to find credible sources (my first time for this also).  I got a whole lot of 

information about attaining the education needed for a social work degree, and when my criteria was 

narrowed, I found information on specific fields of social work. It was very difficult to find what I 

was looking for, however I did finally find a great source of information that lead to the evolution of 

my blog. It was a long and grueling process and I am glad this part is over.

       Thanks for reading my blog and stay tuned for more information about clinical social work!