DIASS: Q4L4

• Social Work

  • A profession concerned with helping individuals, families, groups, and communities to enhance their individual and collective well-being.
• WORKING WITH INDIVIDUAL CLIENT

  • Social worker needs to have basic knowledge in human behavior
  • Must have known of the different stress and human beings' response to it in order to understand and eventually help others.
  • Individual clients referred to as micro practice.
• CASEWORK CONSIDERATIONS

  • The social worker needs to understand that the person's behavior is a manifestation of his/her own mode of adaptation to the current condition that has caused stress:

  1. To gain satisfaction
  2. To avoid or dissolve frustration
  3. To maintain balance in movement

  • The assessments of ego strengths are defenses. 
  • They are essential in the helping process.
  • Has to understand that a person is a three-part being: physical, psychological and social. (Each affects the other)
  • Social work is more client-centered rather than problem-focused.
• MODES OF ADAPTATION

  1. Fight
  2. Flight
  3. Pairing
• Fight

  •  physical or verbal projection of angry feelings on others when encountering difficult circumstances, frustration or even disappointment.
• Flight

  • when the person moves away from the problem at times resulting in drugs, alcohol to forget the stressful situation.
• Pairing

  • it entails into a relationship with another person who is perceived to be stronger, stable or who has the capacity to provide help.
• Typology of Clients

  1. Voluntary/Walk-in
  2. Involuntary
  3. Referred clients
• Voluntary Clients 

  • are those persons who opted to voluntarily
• Involuntary Clients 

  • are those certain types of individuals in need who may not even consider asking for help because they think that they are doing fine and will survive somehow.
• Referred Clients

  •  they are being assisted by other persons who are concerned about the client's situation.
• FACTORS THAT MAY INTERFERE OR INFLUENCE THE PROCESS OF HELPING RELATIONSHIP

  1. Transference

  2. Countertransference 

  3. Reality
• Transference

  •  client's reactions and displacement on the worker of the particular feelings and attitudes s/he may have experienced

   
• Countertransference 

  • the worker's relationship reactions that she may project on the client and usually it is the worker who transfer previously experienced feelings on the client
• Reality 

  • realistic and objective perception of existing condition or situation
• Social group


  A form of social organization whose members identifies and interacts with one another on a personal basis and also has a shared sense of the group as a social entity
• Social groups work as a process and method rooted on the sociological concept that a person is a social being who has an inclination and needs to associate with other human beings
• Purposes of social group work


  • Enhance the social adjustment of the individual and develop the social consciousness
  • Provide opportunities for planned group experiences that are needed by all people
  • Provide experiences that are relaxing and that give individuals a chance to create, to share and express themselves
  • Help individuals in groups to take responsibility for their own behavior; relate with others and how to become participating members of the society
• Community social workers


  Help communities function
• Community social work practices


  • Work directly with individuals, conducting needs assessments and making referrals to resources in the community
  • Assess needs on a larger scale
  • Plan and administer programs
  • Community organization
• Geographic community


  Refers to the people in a specific geographic area like village, barangay, sitio, district, municipality, city, province, region, nation, or the world
• Functional community


  Composed of the people who hold common values, share some common functions or express some common interest such as education, health, livelihood, labor, welfare or recreation
• SCOPE OF SOCIAL WORK

  Social work as Primary Discipline

  Child welfare

  1. Adoption and services to unmarried parents
  2. Foster care
  3. Residential care
  4. Support In own home 
  5. Protective services
• Adoption and services to unmarried parents

  • Assist and facilitate women to decide (whether to keep the baby or adoption)
• Foster care

  • Removing children from home and placing them in foster homes temporarily.
• Residential care

  • Residential treatment center for a child who exhibits antisocial behaviors.
• Support In own home 

  • Provides services in order to keep children in their own homes
  • Giving supports such as daycare centers, homemaker services.
• Protective services

  • Protecting the child from abuse, maltreatment, and exploitation by the parents.
• SCOPE OF SOCIAL WORK

  Social Work as Primary Discipline

  Family Services

  1. Family counseling
  2. Family life education
  3. Family planning
• Family counseling

  • Involves helping individual members of the family modify their behavior to make them more effective contributors in the family.
• Family life education

  • Strengthens family relationships through educational activities to prevent family breakdown.
• Family planning

  • Social workers help the family to make decisions about their pattern of reproduction toward enhancing the family's quality of life.
• SCOPE OF SOCIAL WORK

  Social work as Primary Discipline

  Income maintenance

  1. Public Assistance
  2. Social Insurance
  3. Other forms of program
• Public Assistance

  • Refers to the provision of financial aid to the poor.
  • Social workers support the inadequate income of the poor and provide needed services.
• Social Insurance

  • Social provisions that are funded by employers and employees through contributions to specific programs.

     
• Other forms of program

  • Cash in kind benefits, emergency support funds, and other resources that can be used by the poor for food and shelter
• SCOPE OF SOCIAL WORKER

   Social Work as an Equal Partner

  Aging

  1. Support in their own homes program
  2. Support for people in Long- term care facilities
  3. Community Services
  4. Correctional facilities
  5. Industries
  6. Medical and Health care
  7. School
• Support in their own homes program

  • Help older people remain in their own homes and the social worker brings health care services into their homes.
• Support for people in Long- term care facilities

  • Refers to nursing homes or other group living facilities.
• Community Services

  • Social work offers organization, community planning, and community development.