WEEK 5

• RIGHT TO SELF-FULFILLMENT

  Each person has the right to self-fulfillment which is derived from his/her inherent capacity and thrust toward the goal.
• RESPONSIBILITY TO COMMON GOOD Each person has the responsibility as a member of the society to seek ways of fulfillment that contribute to common good. 
• RESPONSIBILITY OF THE SOCIETY The society has the responsibility to facilitate self- fulfillment of the individual and the right to enrichment through the contribution of its individual members. 
• RIGHT TO SATISFY BASIC NEEDS Each person requires for the harmonious development of his powers socially provided and socially safeguarded opportunities for satisfying his/her basic needs in the physical, psychological, economic, cultural, aesthetic, and spiritual realms. 
• SOCIAL ORGANIZATIONS REQUIRED TO FACILITATE INDIVIDUAL'S EFFORT AT SELF- REALIZATION

  The notion that individual and society are interdependent provides a perspective that the society has the responsibility to provide appropriate social resources, it is the right of the individual to promote change in social resources that do not serve his/her need-meeting efforts. 
• SELF-REALIZATION AND CONTRIBUTION TO SOCIETY To permit both self-realization and contribution to society by the individual, social organization must make available socially-provided devices for need- satisfaction as wide in range, variety, and quality as the general welfare allows. 
• ACCEPTANCE This involves respecting the clients as they are under any circumstances and understands the meaning and causes of the client's behavior. The social worker manifests warmth, interest, and concern about the client and her/his situation. This also means recognizing the individual or people's strengths and potentials, weaknesses, and limitations.
• CLIENT'S PARTICIPATION IN PROBLEM-SOLVING A client is made to understand that s/he is expected to participate in the entire process. This begins in gathering of information then in defining the nature of the problem. The client also participates in planning ways in resolving such problem, identify resources to solve this, and eventually act on this through the help of different available resources. 
• SELF-DETERMINATION The idea behind this principle is that the clients (individual, groups, or communities) who are in need have the right to determine their needs and how they should be met
• INDIVIDUALIZATION This involves recognizing and understanding the client's own unique characteristics and using different principles and methods for each client. This means no two clients are exactly alike (in terms of strengths, their experiences, their problems, etc.) and social work interventions differ for each client considering their unique qualities and situations 
• CONFIDENTIALITY This means that the client should be accorded with appropriate protection, within the limits of the law, from any harm that might result from the information s/he divulges to the worker. The client should be assured that what s/he tells will be kept in confidence. Moreover, confidentiality entails privacy. For instance, a social worker finds an available vacant room to keep conversations from being heard by others. 
• WORKER SELF-AWARENESS This means that the social worker is conscious about her/his role in making use of her/his professional relationship with the client in a way that will enhance the client's development rather than her/his own. The social worker consciously examines her/his feelings, judgments, biases, and responses whether these are professionally motivated. 
• CLIENT-WORKER RELATIONSHIP The purpose of client-worker relationship is to help the client in some area of her/his social functioning in which, at the present, s/he is experiencing some difficulty, and where the worker is in the position to offer help. 
• Social Work as a Primary Discipline -  In terms of child welfare, social work offers adoption and services to unmarried parents, foster care, residential care, support in own home, and protective services. 
• Social Work as an Equal Partner -  In terms of aging, social work offers support for people in their own homes and support for people in long-term care facilities.
• Social Work as a Secondary Discipline -  Social workers are also present in the correctional facilities. They provide counseling and serve as link to the outside world, comprising of the family, potential employers, and the community service network that will provide support upon release.
• THE GOAL ON CHANGING - Changing refers to the active participation of the social workers in social reforms.
• THE GOAL ON CHANGING -  It recognizes that the political, economic, and social structures add in the worsening of social conditions. This reality puts the poor and the needy in a more challenging situation which consequently becomes a critical concern of social institutions and the social work profession.
• THE GOAL ON CURING -  Curing refers to the aspect of treating people with problems in social functioning. This covers a range of aiding techniques for individuals, families, and groups.
• THE GOAL ON CURING - The popular counseling approaches comprising of transactional analysis, family therapy, behavior modification, and reality therapy.  
• THE GOAL ON CURING -  The above techniques are the individual-focused approaches which may not automatically provide an effective method of helping clients toward social functioning. It is necessary to facilitate the participation of the clients in the helping process and create an appropriate environment for them. 
• Social work is a hands-on profession that strives to help people and families deal with their different problems. 
• Social work is a practice-based profession that promotes social change, development cohesion and the empowerment of people and communities.
• Social work practice involves the understanding of human development, behavior and the social, economic and cultural institutions and interactions. 
• THE GOAL ON CARING - Caring refers to the heart of social work and it focuses on the well-being or the welfare and comfort of the individual and community.
• THE GOAL ON CARING - t he caring portion is significantly necessary in the effective execution of social work's role in the society. The need for the caring function increases and it is realized that in the field of social Work, the curative function is inadequate in our goal to improve the situation of people in need.