Social Work

• Social work

  Closely associated with government welfare and social programs.
• Social work aims to achieve social justice, fairness, social equilibrium. It promotes social change, problem solving in human relationships and empowerment, and liberation of people for well-being.
• Social work intervenes at points where people interact with their environments.
• Social workers

  Aim to protect vulnerable people and enhance quality of life. Promote positive individual and social change. They also;

  provide personal care, support individuals with daily living, support people to engage with their communities, involve more direct contact with people.
• Social work aims to EMPOWER people, individually and collectively, to outline their own problem-solving and coping capabilities more effectively.
• Social work aims to SUPPORT a proactive position with regard to social and economic policy development to prevent problems for individuals and society from occurring.
• Social work aims to UPHOLD integrity of the profession in all aspects of social work practice.
• Social work aims to ESTABLISH linkages between people and societal resources
• Social work aims to DEVELOP cooperative networks within the institutional resources system
• Social work aims to FACILITATE the responsiveness of institutional resources systems to meet health and human service needs
• Social work aims to CONTRIBUTE to the development of knowledge for the social work profession through research and evaluation
• Core values of social work


  compassion, service, justice, dignity, worth of person, importance of human relationships, competence, integrity
• Values of social work

  self-fulfillment, self-realization, harmonious development
• competencies

  Service - help people in need, address problems

  Social justice - challenge social injustice

  Dignity and worth - must respect

  Importance of human relationships - must recognize

  Integrity - trustworthy manner

  Competence - practice within their area and enhance
• Social work aims to ESTABLISH linkages between people and societal resources to further social functioning and enhance the quality of life.