Role of school social workers in GayLesbian development

Role of school social workers in Gay/Lesbian development

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Role of school social workers in gay/lesbian development

The school social workers play a very key role in the development of these groups of children and students. Gay and lesbian students are the ones who are mostly looked down upon and are most of the time discriminated against by the straight students and therefore they are susceptible to a lot of emotional torture and harm. Therefore this is whereby the school social workers come in to help these students be able to overcome what happens to them and to help them develop and grow into who truly are without complications and without receiving the voices of the world about what they can do or what they are capable of doing.

In the book, the social work experience we see how the social workers have had a great role and still have a great role to play when it comes to the good development of students in their schools especially those with gay and lesbian inclinations. Therefore this paper discusses these inclinations and the role of social workers within the school setting to help these students be able o overcome the social challenges which come along with their state of being gay and lesbians.

In the story about two gay brothers, we see how this group of people is always limited in finding their true self and how they make many mistakes and they go through a lot of emotional peril as they try to find who they are. The story of Tim helps to open our eyes to the need of this specific group of people and how they go through a lot of challenges as they try to find who they are and what they live for. Tim had a lot of challenges trying to identify what it was which he was suffering from. Even though at the end of it all he realizes and knows his true self there is still a challenge of lack of information and silence about the issues of gays and lesbianism as his brother suffers the same challenges he had faced when he tried to identify who he was (Suppes & Wells, 2011).

The priest who helped Tim realize and identify with the right group can be said to have partly done the work of a social worker as it is the work of the social worker within the school setting that they are supposed to guide and help the students realize who they are. This makes the students have a sense of belonging and therefore not feel alone as Tim and his brother complained that they were ever alone and no person understood those (Suppes & Wells, 2011). The other person for credit in the issue of Tim was the social worker who even though an external one from school helped Tim to be identified as a needy student who needed care due to the challenges which were taking place at the school and the environment which was becoming hostile for him as the students and the teachers alike made sure that he felt so bad about his situation of being a gay. Even though he said he is not fully sure whether he was gay the teacher in the class was still harsh and said that he thought it was true that he was gay. This emotional set-back is what the social workers are supposed to deal with and stop (Suppes & Wells, 2011).

In conclusion therefore one of the best ways for social workers to realize this is through making sure that they talk to the students about self-acceptance and how this virtue is so important as if they accept themselves then the world accepts them. Through this, the gay and lesbian formation in schools will be better and easier to deal with and help them be better every day.

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Suppes, M. A., & Wells, C. C. (2011). The social work experience: An introduction to social work and social welfare. Pearson Education, Inc…