The Discipline of
Social Work
What comes to
your mind
when you hear
the phrase
“Social Work” ?
SOCIAL WORK
- Social work is an academic
and professional discipline
that seeks to facilitate the
welfare of communities,
individuals, and societies. It
facilitate social change,
development, cohesion, and
empowerment.
Goals of a Social Worker
1. To prepare practitioners who engage in evidence-based beginning level generalist
practice with the systems of all sizes and diverse populations.
2. To prepare practitioners who understand and value human diversity.
3. To prepared practitioners who is understand and appreciate the role and value of
systematic data collection and analysis in system of all sizes for the purpose of
promoting the goals of the profession of social worker.
4. To encourage the development of a strong professional identity and a
commitment to the values and ethics of the social work profession in future
practitioners.
5. To prepare students to understand the dynamics and consequences of social and
economic injustice and the important of alleviating injustice and oppression.
SCOPE OF SOCIAL WORK
1. Child 2. Medical 3. Clinical 4. Social Work
Development Social Work Social Work Administratio
n and
Management
- Right to education The medical social The clinical social - Budget Management
- Right against workers provide workers provides a - Monitoring and
evaluation of public
exploitation assistance to the full range of mental and social policy
- Right to patients and their health services - Co-ordinate activities
rehabilitation family who are including to achieve the
- Right to speech coping with many assessment, agencies goal
and expression problems. diagnosis and - Staff co-ordination
treatment.
SCOPE OF SOCIAL WORK
5. International Social Work 6. Social work in an acute 7. Social Worker as a Other scopes of social work
psychiatric hospital community organizer are:
- Counsel and aid refugees - Complete intake - Assist the community in - Addiction treatment
to ensure a smooth - Psycho-social defining a school - Child abuse, adoption,
transition into a new assessment problem and welfare
environment - Provide patient and - Provide direction and - Criminal justice
- Facilitate international family education and guidance to the - Crisis intervention
adoption support community in order to - Development disabilities
- Provides disaster relief - Provide individual mobilize and identified - Disaster relief
time of crisis treatment family and cause by case work, - Domestic relief
- Counsel families to find group therapy group work and - Domestic violence
better solution to their - Provide discharge and community organization - HIV/AIDS
problems. Remove after planning - Assist in establishing - Military social work
children from abusive new programs to meet - Political development
situation and place it to the needs of individuals, - Rural development
care homes groups and families - Industrial development
- Women welfare
PRINCIPLES OF SOCIAL WORK
Principles Relative to Respect Principles Relative to social
for human rights justice
1. Upholding and promoting human 1.Challenging discrimination
dignity and well-being 2.Recognizing diversity
2. Respecting the right to self- 3.Distributing resources
determination
3. Promoting the right to
4.Challenging unjust policies
participation and practices
4. Creating each person as a whole 5.Working in solidarity
5. Identifying and developing
strengths
PRINCIPLES OF SOCIAL WORK
Principles of relative to
professional integrity
1.Upholding the values and
reputation of the profession
2.Being trustworthy
3.Maintaining professional
boundaries
4.Making considered professional
judgments
5.Being professionally
accountable
CORE VALUE OF SOCIAL WORK
1. Compassion – this can be considered as an 3. Social Justice– it is a basic of their
important value for all humankind but in understanding of the need to ensure
social work, it occupies a special impetus to
that everyone get serviced and that
the functioning of the profession. It is the
basis for someone to go out and become a everyone get a share of what the
voice to the voiceless and a friend to the community possesses in material and
people who need it most. non – material.
2. Service– it directs social workers to 4. Dignity and worth of the person – it is a
go beyond purely performing a value that provides the determination and
drive for social workers to seek the
service for a pay and allow them to
marginalized in all forms without much
be generous with their time. regard as to whether such problem in self-
inflicted or socially imposed.
CORE VALUE OF SOCIAL WORK
5. Importance of human 6. Integrity – it is necessary 7. Competence – it is a
relationships – it makes in all human endeavors. In very important value for
social works, nothing can be
it possible for social social work professional
accomplished without
workers to do their job integrity. A social worker practice. Through
as most human will have difficulties to be special training, a social
situations they seek to accepted by the people to worker becomes
address required receive services and by separated from all
collaborating with so those he/she needs to common sense, culture,
collaborate with to facilitate
many other and religious-based
problem solving and
professionals and empowerment of an care.
individuals with a stake individual or a group.
in the issue.
ROLES OF SOCIAL WORK
AS A BROKER AS AN ADVOCATE
- The social worker is involved in - In this role, social workers fight
the process of making referral to for the rights of others and
the family or person to needed work to obtain needed
resources. Social work
professionals do not simply
resources by convicting others
provide information. They also of the legitimate needs and
follow up to be sure the needed rights of members of the
resources are attained. This society
requires knowing resources,
eligibility requirements, fees, and
the location of services
ROLES OF SOCIAL WORK
AS A CASE MANAGER AS AN EDUCATOR
- They are involved in locating - Social
workers are often involved in
services and assisting their clients to teaching people about resources and
access those services. Case how to develop particular such as
management is especially important budgeting, the caring discipline of
for complex situations and for those children, effective communication,
who are homeless or elderly, have the meaning of a medical diagnosis,
chronic physical or mental health and the prevention of violence.
issues, are disabled, victims of
domestic or other violent crimes, or
are vulnerable children.
ROLES OF SOCIAL WORK
AS A AS AN EDUCATOR AS A MANAGER
FACILITATOR - Socials workers are - Because of their expertise
involved in may levels in a whole variety of
- In this role, social applications, are well
workers are involved of community
suited to work as a
in gathering groups organization and managers and supervisors
of people together for action including in almost any setting. They
a variety of purposes economic are better able to influence
development, union policy change and/or
including community
organization, and development, and to
development, self advocate, on a larger scale,
advocacy, political research and policy
for all underprivileged
organization, and specialist people
policy change
CORE FUNCTIONS OF SOCIAL WORK
ENGAGEMENT
“The social worker must first engage the
client in early meeting to promote a
collaborative relationship”
ASSESSMENT
“Data must be gathered that will guide
and direct a plan of action help the client”
CORE FUNCTIONS OF SOCIAL WORK
PLANNING
“Negotiate and formula an action plan”
IMPLEMENTATION
“ Promote resource acquisition and
enhance role performance”
CORE FUNCTIONS OF SOCIAL WORK
MONITOR / EVALUATION
“On-going documentation through short-
term goal attainment of extent to which
client is following through”
SUPPORTIVE COUNSELING
“Affirming challenging, encourage,
information, and exploring options”
CORE FUNCTIONS OF SOCIAL WORK
GRADUATED DISENGAGEMENT
“Seeking to replace the social worker with
a naturally accruing resource”
GOVERNMENT SETTING
According to National Association of Social
Workers in 2021, the range of government
setting in which social workers practice
include
1. Agencies serving children and families,
such as foster care agencies
2. Health-care setting, including community-
based clinics and hospital, schools
3. Federal, state or local correction facilities
4. Setting that serve adults, such as nursing
homes and
5. Agencies serving military veterans and
active duty military personnel.
The DSWD provides assistance to other national government
agencies (NGA’s), local government unit (LGU’s), people
organization (PO’s) and members of civil society in the
implementation of program, projects, and services that will
alleviate property and empower disadvantage individuals,
families, and communicate to improve their quality of life. It
implements statutory and specialized social welfare programs and
projects.
PRIVATE SECTORS SETTING
In the private sector, particularly
corporate setting, occupational social
work is practiced. The type of social
work typically has five structures
within which it generates
interventions.
1. Employee assistance programs
2. Labor union social services
3. Human resource management
offices
4. Community relation offices, and
5. Organization development
initiatives
CIVIL SOCIETY SETTING
1. Social workers in civil society tent to
work advocates of human rights and
social justice
2. Civil society work fosters delivery of
motivational needs
3. Personal development
4. Street children and other children
who are in danger
5. Women or environmental issues
6. Migration and migrants
7. Groups like gays and lesbians, cancer
patients, elderly and workers
SCHOOL SETTING
A school social worker is a
liaison between the school
and students’ families, a
sustainer of effective
communication among
parents, teachers, and
students essentially bridging
the children’s personal lives
and education to ensure that
students needs are being met.
COMMUNITY SETTING
Community setting social work
interventions include a wide array
of approaches with different
theories and emphasis that social
workers have to comfortably
employ on two or three levels
1.Individuals
2.Families
3.Groups
4.communication
AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION IN SOCIAL WORK
FAMILY AND CHILD WELFARE HEALHT
- Physical or mental illness - Impact of illness
- Unemployment - Death
- Divorce - Maternal
- Adoption - Child care
- Foster child care - Care for dying patients
- Disabilities - Victims of certain diseases like HIV or cancer
- Physically and emotionally abused children
MENTAL HEATH
- Mental
- Emotional stress
CORRECTIONS
- Prevention of crime
- Rehabilitation of criminals
- People on probation or parole
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