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Title: Working History of a Social Worker
Author : Simone Grandjean
Release Date : January 30, 2014
Genre: Biographies & Memoirs,Books,
Pages : * pages
Size : 605 KB

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After working 20 years as a dressmaker, in 1980, aged 49 years, I proudly

received a Degree in Social Studies from the University of Sydney.

Then, in 1985 I obtained a Masters Degree in Social Work from the

University of New South Wales.

My first job as a Social Worker, in 1980 was with the Italian Welfare

Centre (CO.AS.IT.) where I stayed for four and a half years. Then six

months in a Nursing Home in London. Then one year with the Department

of Immigration in Sydney and Parramatta. Then from 1987 I worked for the

Aged Care Assessment Team attached to the Bankstown Hospital. I retired

in March 2007 on my 76th birthday.

I enjoyed my work. I liked many of my clients and most of my

co-workers.

I remember some of the cases I had to deal with; many were unusual,

some were sad, some impossible and a few amusing, but all were interesting

as no two people are alike.

In CO.AS.IT. I had a whole range of problems to deal with. All the

clients were Italian migrants mainly from a Peasant background. They

spoke mostly their native dialects mixed with Italian. The greatest number

came from the south of Italy (PUGLIA, CALABRIA, SICILY, and around

NAPLES) and from the poorer parts of the North (Veneto).

I spoke Italian and soon understood the different dialects although I

never spoke any of them. So I was able to deal with people from the different

provinces.

At The Department of Immigration I was in charge of several bi-lingual

Welfare Officers covering Arabic, Greek, Spanish, Lebanese, Polish, all

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Yugoslav languages, the Filipino dialects, Chinese, Vietnamese and Italian;

my native language is French.

I was also able to use interpreters for those times when a person spoke

something else, such as Portuguese, Armenian or Assyrian, etc . . .

In England and Bankstown 99% of my clients were the elderly, the

greatest percentage were of English or Anglo Australian background, but also

of many other nationalities and ethnic backgrounds.

So, there have been cases relating to family relationship, children, marital

problems, psychiatric problems, immigration, needing information on a large

range of subjects: health, death, work, financial problems, sexual problems,

etc . . . and cultural differences.

But first I was a Social Work Student.