My internship I did in the "Socialinės paramos centras" in Vilnius. This service was established by the Lithuanian government so all support it gets from the government. It means that support depends on the economical state of Lithuania.
I chose this service because I wanted to do something more difficult and to get more experience than I got during my first internship in "Matulaičio socialinės paromos centras". I thought that working with families will give me more knowledge and will be more challenging than work with children.
Before going to my internship I conceived a plan of aims that I was planning to achieve. So my aims were: first, to learn how to use theoretic knowledge during internship; second, to get more experience working with clients; third, to improve abilities of communication.
During my internship in a “Socialinės paramos centras” I had few activities.
First of all with a social worker I had to go to visit families. It was good opportunity to see how poor people live. Second activity was to try to make individual plans how to help for families.
At first sight my internship was not challenging but on the other hand it was really arduous work. All the time I was visiting asocial families. Most of places where families lived were in a really bad condition: the furniture were very old or broken, the smell there was awful, sometimes for me it was even quite hard to stay in their apartments longer than few minutes. Other disadvantage of my training was that I almost could not help for those families, I just could watch how social worker works. On the other hand, it gave me quite a lot of experience. Unfortunately, I discovered that social worker's job is really dangerous because most of the time social workers go alone to visit families.
They do not know how people will react to them and how they will behave.
Fortunately, there are not just disadvantages of my internship. So advantages off course would be experience and knowledge that I got from social worker. It was very nice and useful that social worker was explaining to me everything what she was doing, also she helped me by giving me her own opinion and sharing with me her own experience.
Other quite important advantage is that I realized how happy I am, I started more appreciate what I have. I realized that I have everything what is most significant: family, friends, place where to live, enough money, also all opportunities to study. Also while going to asocial families I saw that there are a lot of people who need social worker's help. I realized how our profession is important.
To sum up, I think internship is really useful, it gives us a lot of experience which we can not get during lectures at university. The internship is the opportunity to study not just from books but also from a real life.
I chose this service because I wanted to do something more difficult and to get more experience than I got during my first internship in "Matulaičio socialinės paromos centras". I thought that working with families will give me more knowledge and will be more challenging than work with children.
Before going to my internship I conceived a plan of aims that I was planning to achieve. So my aims were: first, to learn how to use theoretic knowledge during internship; second, to get more experience working with clients; third, to improve abilities of communication.
During my internship in a “Socialinės paramos centras” I had few activities.
First of all with a social worker I had to go to visit families. It was good opportunity to see how poor people live. Second activity was to try to make individual plans how to help for families.
At first sight my internship was not challenging but on the other hand it was really arduous work. All the time I was visiting asocial families. Most of places where families lived were in a really bad condition: the furniture were very old or broken, the smell there was awful, sometimes for me it was even quite hard to stay in their apartments longer than few minutes. Other disadvantage of my training was that I almost could not help for those families, I just could watch how social worker works. On the other hand, it gave me quite a lot of experience. Unfortunately, I discovered that social worker's job is really dangerous because most of the time social workers go alone to visit families.
They do not know how people will react to them and how they will behave.
Fortunately, there are not just disadvantages of my internship. So advantages off course would be experience and knowledge that I got from social worker. It was very nice and useful that social worker was explaining to me everything what she was doing, also she helped me by giving me her own opinion and sharing with me her own experience.
Other quite important advantage is that I realized how happy I am, I started more appreciate what I have. I realized that I have everything what is most significant: family, friends, place where to live, enough money, also all opportunities to study. Also while going to asocial families I saw that there are a lot of people who need social worker's help. I realized how our profession is important.
To sum up, I think internship is really useful, it gives us a lot of experience which we can not get during lectures at university. The internship is the opportunity to study not just from books but also from a real life.
