There are many different types of social workers such as clinical social workers, child welfare or family social workers, child or adult protective services social workers, school social workers, and healthcare social workers. These are just a few of the different type of social workers the on I am interested in is child welfare and family social workers. In the following pages is will discuss information that I learned on what social workers do, what are the working conditions, salary ranges, and the minium requirements to enter the field. I also have an with a student majoring in this field.
One of the careers that I am interested in is social work. The type of social work that I am interested in is deals with child welfare and family services. Social workers treat people with social problems and people with serious illnesses. Social workers that deal with child welfare and family services help children who have difficulty adjusting to changes in their environment such as divorce, new siblings, parents remarrying and/or illness within themselves or a parents illness. Child welfare social workers also deal with children who are in an abusive house holds, the help with adoption cases, and help find foster families for children.
Social workers work forty hours a week but that is not limited to just those hours they also work on weekends. Social workers work generally from offices and residential facilities. In 2000 social workers held over 450 thousand jobs in that year. They also work in hospitals, nursing homes, health centers and clinics. This graph shows the employment numbers of the different types of social workers. In 2000 child, family and school social workers took up about 281,000 of the jobs in this field. The medical and health social workers held 104,000 jobs in 2000. The mental health and substance abuse social workers held the least amount of jobs the numbers were 83,000 jobs in 2000.
