The purpose of the second self-awareness journal entry is to continue to reflect upon your
feelings, thoughts, and actions associated with privilege, power, oppression, and diversity.
Begin by reviewing your first journal entry. Consider if and how your answers may have evolved
during the past five weeks. Think critically about what factors have changed, reinforced, or
nuanced your previous thoughts. Then, answer the following questions:
How have privilege, power, oppression, and diversity impacted your feelings, thoughts,
and actions related to diverse communities? What has changed in 5-6 weeks?
Now apply your thoughts to how this journey of self-awareness will impact your
professional role as a social worker. As you uncover your own isms, phobias, biases,
and prejudices, consider how they might influence your work and relationships with
colleagues, clients, and community members. How might you identify and manage your
biases?
Identify a time in which you found yourself in a challenging situation that perhaps
included an intentional or unintentional microaggression.
o What power issues were at play?
o How did the identities of the people involved intersect to create the situation?
o How did you respond? How did your own social identities influence your
response?
o Looking back, was there something you would have done differently to create a
safer environment?
o What does this tell us about the challenges of acting as an ally?
Consider a contemporary social phenomenon (e.g., the Me-Too movement, the Eastern
European refugee crisis, the living wage movement, the Black Lives Matter movement,
Reproductive Justice, MMIW, the DREAM Act campaign, etc.). How does this
phenomenon shed light on privilege, power, oppression, diversity, and
intersectionality?
o What relevance does our class content and dialogue have upon connections with
practice policy and research in the field of social work?
It must be in APA format. Make sure to try to answer all questions listed about 3 pages. I will upload my previous essay to go off of
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