Diazz Quiz

• Social work

  Domestic common-sense cart to profesional social work
• Social work


  • Closely associated with government
  • Promotes service
  • Promotes social change
  • Focuses on problem solving in human relationships
  • ment and liberation of people to enhance well-being
• Aims of social work

  • To help individuals fit better into their environment
  • To change the environment so that it works better for them
• Context of social work


  • People in vulnerability
  • People in oppression
  • People living in poverty
• Goals of social work

  • Empower people, individually and collectively
  • Uphold the integrity of the profession
  • Establish linkages between people and social resources
  • Develop cooperative networks
  • Promote social justice and equality
• Charity organization society


  A strategy pioneered in the mid-19th century
• Founders of social work

  • Helen Bosanquet
  • Octavia Hill
• Social work

  The helping profession
• Importance of social work

  • Enhance human well-being
  • Help meet basic and complex needs
  • Focus on those who are vulnerable, oppressed and living in poverty
• Principles of social work

  • Upholding and promoting human dignity and well-being
  • Respecting the right to self-determination
  • Promoting the right to participation
  • Creating each person as a whole
  • Identifying and developing strengths
• Principles of social work relative to social justice

  • Challenging discriminations
  • Recognizing diversity
  • Distributing resources
  • Challenging unjust policies and practices
  • Working in solidarity
• Core values of social work

  • Compassion
  • Service
  • Social justice
  • Dignity and worth of a person
  • Importance of human relationships
  • Integrity
  • Competence
• Social workers


  • Diverse group of skilled professionals
  • Assist individuals or communities
  • Goal is to help
  • Allied with government
  • help abused/neglected/self-harming people, enhance their well-being and quality of life
• Roles of social workers

  • Promote social welfare
  • Help people with the individual challenges they are facing
  • Advocate for social and economic justice for members of diverse communities
  • Embody the social work code of ethics
• Types of social work

  • Micro-work (small group or individual)
  • Mezzo-work (groups)
  • Macro-work (community)
• Types of social workers

  • Children and family social workers
  • Community social workers
  • Criminal justice social workers
  • Disability social workers
  • Medical social workers