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• Locus of Control


  A person's perception of control or responsibility for their own life and actions
• Secondary Methods


  • Social Research
  • Social Action
  • Social Welfare Administration
• Social Research


  The systematic method of discovering new facts, their sequence; inter relationships, casual explanations and social laws which govern them
• Social Action


  Organized and legally permitted activities designed to mobilize public opinion, legislation and public administration in favor of objectives believed to be socially desirable
• Social Welfare Administration


  Skills and techniques to achieve effective services, e.g. the diagnostic, prevention and curative or rehabilitation, for the readjustment of destitute person and all handicapped persons
• Micro System


  Primary Focus of intervention; Individuals; Domestic Unit and Small Groups
• Micro Practice


  • Helping individuals to find appropriate housing, health care and social services, family therapy & individual counseling, medical care of an individual or family, and the treatment of people suffering from a mental health conditions or substance abuse problem
• Mezzo System


  Medium size groups (neighbors, schools, churches)
• Macro System


  Organization; Communities; Policy
• Macro Practice


  • Lobbying to change a health care law, organizing a state wide activist group or advocating for large-scale social policy change
• Child Welfare


  Concerned with the well-being of children & youth, focus on the strengthening of relationship between parents and child, the role of the family, and the responsibility of the community in the child's development
• Child Welfare Services


  • Direct service (assistance of children in their own homes, child placement through residential care in an institution, foster care or adoption)
  • Indirect Service (financing, provision of supplies and equipment and certain facilities, coordination to facilitate linkages and avoid duplication among agencies)
• Child Placement Types


  • Adoption
  • Legal guardianship
  • Foster Care
  • Residential/institutional care
• Family Welfare


  Concerned with the improvement, strengthening and support of the family in meeting its own needs, helping the family to perform its functions as the basic social unit
• Family welfare services refer to a program or composite of interventive techniques, activities, measures focused on the prevention or resolution of problems of role functioning and relationships that threaten the stability of the family as a social unit</b>
• Locus of Control – refers to a person’s perception of control or responsibility for his own life and actions.
• Direct Practice: constitutes one-on-one contact with people at the micro level and is usually identified as working with people directly at the individual, group, or family level. Rather than specifying a particular theory, direct practice is seen as an eclectic proc
• Indirect Practice: Also known as macro practice. It involves activities by professionals that focus on the structure through which services are provided such as planning, policy analysis, program development administration and program evaluation (Commonway and Gestry 1988, Meyer 1987, Specht 1988).

   
•     Primary Method: are that systematic and planned way of performing an activity, which is fundamental to Social Work. These are just like roots of social work, which give birth to other branches. 
• Social Case Work: It is one of the basic methods of professional social work which is concerned to help and assist individuals, in finding solutions to their problems.
• ▪ Social Group Work. Social group work is that method of social work, which helps individuals in the improvement of their social functioning and the achievement of desirable social goals. 
• •       Secondary Method: these are secondary because it facilitates the primary methods. There are also the derivatives of primary methods. 
• P. K Young-

  “Social research is the systematic method of discovering new facts, their sequence; inter relationships, casual explanations and social laws which govern them.” According to Webster:
• ▪ Social Action: The term social action refers to organized and legally permitted activities designed to mobilize public opinion, legislation and public administration in favor of objectives believed to be socially desirable. 
• Social Welfare Administration. Every profession needs some skills and techniques to achieve certain goals.
• ▪ Social Research: Social research is the scientific investigation of human behavior and social phenomena. This can include both quantitative (statistical) and qualitative (descriptive) approaches.
• ▪ Social Theory: A theory is a set of ideas about how something works. Social theories explain why things happen the way they do. They describe patterns of behavior and try to predict what will happen next. Theories are based on observations and data collected from real-life situations.
• • Micro Primary Focus of intervention; Individuals; Domestic Unit and Small Groups.
• Mezzo - medium size groups (neighbors, schools, churches)
• • Macro – Organization; Communities; Policy. The practice of macro social work is the effort to help clients by intervening in large systems.
• 1.      Child Welfare  

  •       Concerned with the well-being of children & youth 
• •       Focus on the strengthening of relationship between parents and child, the role of the family, and the responsibility of the community in the child’s development. 

  It works with children who need protection against conditions that exploit t
• •       It works with children who need protection against conditions that exploit their rights as human beings or prevent them from their right to survival and development.  
• 2 Major Types of Child Welfare Services  

  • Direct service

  • Indirect Service
• • Direct service – rendered to in the form of  

  1.     Assistance of children in their own homes 

  2.     Child placement through residential care in an institution, foster care or adoption. 
• Indirect Service: in the form of

  1.     financing on a national or international event; or the provision of supplies and equipment and certain facilities. 

  2.     coordination to facilitate linkages and avoid duplication among agencies with similar or related services Child Placement 
• 1.     Legal guardianship- substitute parental care through the appointment of legal guardian for the child, including his property, until the child reaches the age of majority 
• 1.     Foster Care- substitute temporary parental care provided to a child by a licensed foster family under the supervision of a social worker. The ultimate goal is reuniting the child with the biological family or prepare the child for adoption or in the case of older children, to prepare them for independent living. 
• 1.     Residential/institutional care – this provides temporary 24-hour residential group care for children. It is under the guidance of trained staff, but it is used as a last recourse, resorted to in the absence of foster families. 

  1.      Family Welfare 
• 1.      Family Welfare 

  •       It is concerned with the improvement, strengthening and support of the family in meeting its own needs.