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• Practice Settings


  The venue where social workers go to practice their profession
• Practice Settings for Social Workers (Gibelman, 1995)


  • Field practice - looking after the physical welfare or mental health of a client
  • Setting for practice - the venue where social workers go to practice their profession
  • Type of agency - defined based on the nature of the social welfare institution that a social worker is affiliated with, such as nonprofit organizations or government agencies
  • Function performed - direct service to client or a service that involves merely supervising the link between the client and an organization that provides the service
  • Client-oriented institution - understood based on the client population being served, such as homeless people, children with disabilities, or chronically or mentally ill people
  • Method - dependent on what kind of client or audience (social group work, casework, or community work) a social worker must help
  • Goal for practice - prevention, problem resolution, and symptom alleviation
  • Form of service - tasks or services that social workers are trained to apply in practice, such as martial therapy, case management, and discharge planning
  • Indicator of a problem - the type of problem at hand so that the social work could identify the specific strategy to be employed to address such issue
• Social workers deal with social issues that cut across the broad spectrum of problems that affect individuals, groups, and communities, including civil and legal rights, economics status and poverty, employment, rural and urban issues, and problems unique to special populations (Gibelman, 1995)
• Problem-solving approach in social work


  1. Identify the problem(s) of the client

  2. Generate possible alternative solutions

  3. Evaluate the alternative solutions

  4. Select the solution(s) and set goals, making sure the client is a set as well to help him or herself

  5. Implement the solution(s)

  6. Follow up to evaluate how the solution(s) worked
• Micro level


  Where the social worker deals with an individual on one-to-one basis
• Mezzo level


  Where the social worker deals with families and other small groups
• Macro level


  Where a social worker deals with organization and communities, or where a social worker seeks changes in laws and social policies
• Case Work


  The particular case that a social worker is attending to, where the social worker meets the individual (client) to sort any personal or social problems that the latter is contending with, and assists the client in getting through the social and economic pressures
• Case Management


  Caseworkers and case management undertake almost the same nature of tasks, where case managers help disenfranchised clients in accessing the needed resources provided by organizations, and plan, seek, and monitor services from agencies and staff on behalf of the client
• Group Work


  Not necessarily meant to be therapeutic, group work is an opportunity for recreation, for cultivating human virtues, for improving relationships among cultural and racial groups
• Group Therapy


  Fosters healthy social, behavioral, and emotional adjustment among clients, where the clients participate to address their emotional, interactional, or behavioral difficulties through one-to-one counseling with a counselor
• Client


  Someone who makes an explicit agreement with a social worker about the purpose of their work together
• Goals of the Client


  • Obtain help with problems
  • Preserve self-respect
  • Limit invasions of privacy
  • Satisfy needs for dependence and nurturance
  • Seek assurance that nothing is wrong
• Goals of the Social Worker

  • Establish and maintain an area of expertise
  • Use expertise
  • Make Money
  • Demonstrate competence
  • Serve others
• Moral model


  A person is responsible for both his or her problems and its solution
• Medical or Disease model


  The client is assumed to be responsible for neither the problem not its solution
• Compensatory model


  The client is viewed as being responsible for the solution but not the problem
• Enlightenment model


  A person is responsible for the problem but not its solution
• Types of Social Work with Groups


  • Social Conversation Groups - people with similar experiences sharing for introspection and assistance
  • Recreation Groups - for enjoyment and exercise
  • Recreation-Skill Groups - task-oriented groups led by an adviser, coach, or instructor to develop skills
  • Education Groups - instructional groups to develop knowledge and skills
  • Task Groups - instructional groups assigned with specific tasks or objectives
  • Problem-Solving and Decision-making Groups - given scenarios to process and come up with solutions
  • Self-help Group - volunteer members within the same socioeconomic backgrounds solving common problems
  • Socialization Groups - to make attitudes and behaviors more socially acceptable
  • Therapy Groups - provide counsel for those with emotional or personal problems
  • Sensitive Groups - to improve interpersonal awareness through group experiences
• Social Work with Organizations


  People work together to accomplish tasks and achieve goals that cannot be achieved by an individual
• Social Work with the Community


  The process of stimulating and assisting the local community to evaluate, plan, and coordinate its efforts to provide for the community's health, welfare, and recreation needs