DIASS | SOCIAL WORK

• SOCIAL WORK 


  Help individuals cope with anxiety, stress or depression, but it goes further to help the client to gain access to other community resources and support services that may be state run
• Enabler 


  • Individuals and Families
  • Helping people find solutions
• Broker or Advocates 


  • Community
  • Case Management
• Teachers 


  • Community
  • In terms of information processing
• Facilitator 


  • For formal groups and organizations
  • In aid of organizational development
• Convener or Mediator 


  • For organization
  • In aid of creating networks
• Trainer 


  • Community
  • For professional development
• Planner 


  • Community and Society
  • Facilitating research and planning
• Activist 


  • Society - In aid of social action
  • Community - They conduct outreach in aid of community education
• Colleague and a Monitor 


  • Within the social work profession
  • In aid of professional enculturation and socialization
• Catalysts 


  • Community
  • For community service
• Research-Scholars


  • In aid of knowledge development and capacity building
• Roles of Social Work

  • Enabler
  • Broker or Advocates
  • Teachers
  • Facilitator
  • Convener or Mediator
  • Trainer
  • Planner
  • Activist
  • Colleague and a Monitor
  • Catalysts
  • Research-Scholars
• Consultancy 


  This refers to the professional activities through which social workers and their clients plan, initiate, and pursue actions toward desire change
• Resource Management 


  This refers to the act of coordinating, systematizing, and integrating resources and services needed to support social functioning, meeting needs and resolving problems
• Education 


  This refers to the provision of knowledge and critical information necessary for empowerment practice that facilitates informed decision-making, increased abilities, and gain access to opportunities and resources for a client
• Functions of Social Work

  • Consultancy
  • Resource Management
  • Education
• Competencies of Social Work

  • Empathic
  • Compassionate - is necessary in working with people who are socially marginalized or suffer deprivation
  • They require deeply empathic and non-judgmental social worker who intends to empower them
  • Listening skills will also occupy a very special role in the social work toolkit
• Family and Child Welfare 


  A social worker deals with some situations to help a child who experienced trauma or a victim of child abuse and help parents find the right means to help their child who is experiencing from severe and serious mental illness
• Health 


  Their concern is to help patients and their families in clinics, hospitals and other healthcare facilities.
• Mental 


  They deal with disturbed children and adolescents who have a behavioral and learning problems
• Correction 


  Their primary concerned is in the program with the prevention of crime and the rehabilitation of criminals and provide advises and counsel to people who are on probation or parole
• School


  • Vocational Counseling
  • School adjustment counseling
  • Help with behavioral management
  • Personal problems
  • Assist students who have difficulties in learning and motivate them to work on their potentials
• Areas of Specialization of Social Work

  • Family and Child Welfare
  • Health
  • Mental
  • Correction
  • School
• Worker Self-Awareness 


  Social Workers consciously examines her feelings, judgments, biases, responses whether it is professionally motivated
• Principles of Social Work

  • Acceptance
  • Client's Participation in Problem Solving
  • Self-Determination
  • Individualization
  • Confidentiality
  • Worker Self-Awareness
  • Client-Worker Relationship
• 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
• Social Organizations Required to Facilitate Individual's Effort at Self-realization


  The notion that the individual and society are independent provides a perspectives 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-relization and contribution to society by individual, social organization must make available socially-provided devices for need-satisfaction as wide in range, variety, and quality as the general welfare allows
• Core Values of Social Work

  • Right to Self-fulfillment
  • Responsibility to Common Good
  • Responsibility of the Society
  • Right to Satisfy Basic Human Needs
  • Social Organizations required to Facilitate Individual's Effort at Self-realization
  • Self-realization and Contribution to Society
• Concept of Human Potentials and Capacities 


  This is premised on the belief that a person is inherently with potentials and capacities
• Concept of Social Responsibility 


  This is based on the notion that an individual has the obligation to contribute to the common good and society
• Concept of Equal Opportunities 


  This is premised on the ideal of social justice, two elements of which are fairness and equality
• Concept of Social Provision 


  This is based on the premise that there will be always be everywhere with unmet needs or problems beyond their own capacity to solve
• Concepts Implied in Values of Social Work

  • Concept of Human Potentials and Capacities
  • Concept of Social Responsibility
  • Concept of Equal Opportunities
  • Concept of Social Provision
• NASW


  National Asociation of Social Workers