The author of this personal critical incident paper is a 26-year-old African American female she was born in a two-parent middle-class home she is the eldest of two girls. She graduated in the top 15 percent of her high school class. She was able to secure a great score on her ACT and her college tuition was paid for. She attending McNeese State University where she obtained bachelor 's degree in psychology. She enjoys working with families and children and assisting them with the community resource. She is currently employed as a foster care social worker at Department of Children and Family Services. Her job roles consist of working with parents that temporarily lost their children and they are placed in state custody. She identifies herself as being a big, beautiful, healthy, African American woman.
Her parents are both 1 of 5 siblings and both had a very modest childhood. Her parents would be considered a part of the working lower-middle-class. “The number of African Americans considered middle class varies widely depending on what indicators are used. For example, about 30% of African-American households earn between $35,000 and $74,999, and about 17% of African Americans over age 25 have a 4-year college degree (Wheary 2006). Most studies utilize variants of