SOCIAL WORK

• Social work


  A discipline that promotes community building, development, social change, and empowerment among people
• Social work


  • Strategies and techniques, usually used within and across communities, to promote inclusion, well-being, peace, and belongingness within groups
• Social workers


  Individuals who work independently or as part of an organization, employing the same goals and values to improve social functioning and community life
• Social work


  (According to the International Federation of Social Workers) A practice-based profession and an academic discipline that promotes social change and development, social cohesion, and the empowerment and liberation of people
• Social work practice


  Involves the understanding of human development, behavior, family life, and social, economic, and cultural institutions, as well as the interactions of all these components
• Social workers


  Professionals engaged in social work
• Requirements to become a licensed social worker in the Philippines

  • Take up a degree in Social Work and pass the licensure exam conducted by the Professional Regulation Commission
  • May choose to work under any local government unit or a non-government institution, or establish their own organizations
• Social work


  • Facilitates change
  • Helps social institutions
  • Establishes professional linkage between people and the social environment
  • Improves social functioning through resource generation and allocation
• Social service


  A type of publicly-funded or private service that caters to disadvantaged or vulnerable groups by means of short-term and long-term programs on various social agendas, including education, healthcare, legal aid, and housing
• Goal of social service


  To extend help to the target population so that social challenges may be tempered or lessened
• Social service in the Philippines

  • Subsidy on public hospitalization for indigent families
• Social action


  The ability of people, ideally led by social workers, to redistribute power and resources in order to empower the community
• Examples of social action

  • Mobilizations
  • Clean-up drives
  • Community meetings and decision-making
  • Advocacy work
• Social movement


  Formed and regulated by an organized body and a leadership hierarchy, with the usual goal of tackling environmental sustainability and preservation to decrease carbon footprints and promote sustainable living
• Resource Broker


  Role about the direct provision of material aid and other resources that will be helpful in reducing situational deficiencies. Resources are mobilized and created or directly provided to the client being assisted.
• Social Broker


  Role involves a process of negotiating the "service jungle" for clients. The social worker links the clients to the needed services and ensures quick delivery of these services.
• Mediator


  Role includes acting as an intermediary or conciliator between persons or in groups and the social worker engages her/his efforts to resolve disputes between the client and other parties.
• Advocate


  Role involves taking a partisan interest in the client and her/his cause and aims to influence another party in the interest of the client through arguing, bargaining, negotiating, and manipulating the environment, on behalf of the client.
• Counselor/Therapist


  Role intends to restore, maintain, or enhance the clients capacity to adapt to her/his current reality.
• Rehabilitative Function


  • Refers to restorative, curative and remedial actions. Social workers are responsible for assisting individuals and groups to determine and settle or reduce the problem that came out of the imbalance between the individuals and the environment. Put back the person to a balanced state of social functioning.
• Preventive Function


  • Detects impending imbalance between the individuals or groups with the environment. This function encompasses early detection, control, and eradication of situations which may have a damaging effect on the social functioning.
• Developmental Function


  • Ascertains and strengthens the full potential in individuals, groups, and communities. This function seeks to help the individual make full use of her/his potentials and capacities and to enhance the effectiveness of available social or community resources.
• A person seeing a counselor, a psychologist, a psychiatrist, or any mental health practitioner has a mental illness
• Counseling means giving advice
• Counseling is part of the discipline board
• A counselor is a problem-solver
• Such is the stigma associated with visiting a mental health clinic or institution
• A person should be able to freely consult any mental health practitioner and share his or her concerns so that he or she can deal with them effectively
• Frequent feelings of anxiety with excessive worrying may worsen and develop into panic attacks unless intervention is provided by a qualified mental health practitioner
• Professional counselors are trained to avoid giving advice
• When a counselor gives advice, the client is kept from gaining a better position to understand, analyze, and solve his or her own problem
• The primary goal of the counselor is to assist the client to identify the factors that contribute to his or her problem and address them accordingly
• In the course of counseling, the client is moved toward gaining the willingness and strength to resolve his or her predicament
• Students who have violated the school's code of discipline are referred to the counselor
• The counselor's role is not to reprimand and discipline
• Counselor's assistance to the student

  1. Facilitate an understanding of the factors that caused him or her to disobey school rules and regulations

  2. Reorient the student on school policies

  3. Recommend seminars or workshops aimed to impart the characterization of the school's values

  4. Provide psychological support should the student's action merit dismissal
• Counselors do not dispense easy solutions to problems
• Counseling works best through collaboration with the client
• A counselor is a facilitator who guides you toward possible solutions to resolve your dilemma
• Only when the counselor knows and understands the entire situation could he or she best help the client