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• Function of social work


  Helping individuals, families, and groups of people to cope with problems they're facing to improve their patients' lives. One aspect of this is teaching skills and developing mechanisms for patients to rely on to better their lives and experiences.
• Basic functions of social work


  • Restoration
  • Provision of resources
  • Prevention
• Restoration of impaired social functioning

  May be subdivided into curative and rehabilitative aspects
• Self-awareness


  The conscious knowledge of one's own character, feelings, motives, and desires
• Self-awareness


  Involves being aware of different aspects of the self including traits, behaviors, and feelings. Essentially, it is a psychological state in which oneself becomes the focus of attention. Self-awareness is one of the first components of the self-concept to emerge.
• Empathy


  The ability to understand and share the feelings of another
• Empathy


  • Cognitive, Emotional and Compassionate
• Persuasion


  The social worker must be able to persuade the individual to avail the necessary social services that will help the latter cope with the problem at hand
• Compliance-gaining


  Is achieved when a person is made to respond and act on stimulus, which he or she might not have done otherwise
• Compliance-gaining


  A term used in the social sciences that encompasses the intentional act of altering another's behavior. Research in this area originated in the field of social psychology, but communication scholars have also provided ample research in compliance gaining.
• Compliance-gaining


  A term used in the social sciences, specifically in social psychology and communication studies, to identify the act of intentionally trying to alter behavior. The term refers to how people try to get other people to DO things, or comply. Compliance is separate, but not unrelated to persuasion.
• Five bases of power


  • Reward power
  • Coercive power
  • Expert power
  • Legitimate power
  • Referent power
• Reward power


  A person with this kind of power has control over some valued resource
• Coercive power


  A person with this kind of power has the ability to inflict punishments
• Expert power


  This power is based on what a person knows
• Legitimate power


  This power is based on formal rank or position
• Referent power


  People have referent power when the person they are trying to influence wants to be like them
• Qualities of a social worker


  • Empathy
  • Boundary setting
  • Active listening
  • Social perceptiveness
  • Organization
  • Coordination
  • Cooperation
  • Relaxation and decompression
• Empathy


  The ability to identity with or vicariously experience another person's situation
• Boundary setting


  The capacity to set boundaries and expectations and accept the limits of what can a social worker accomplish during a specified period of time
• Active listening


  The ability to listen carefully, ask pertinent questions and retain verbally transmitted information
• Social perceptiveness


  Sensitivity to body language, social cues and implications and cultural patterns of behavior
• Organization


  The ability to manage and prioritize the logistical aspects of the job to maximize the amount of time on the schedule and to provide meaningful services to clients
• Coordination


  The ability to coordinate communication and action among multiple parties to connect clients with services
• Cooperation


  The ability to negotiate, compromise and work well with others to coordinate efforts required in social work
• Relaxation and decompression


  Taking advantage of a social worker's personal time by focusing on and tending to his or her own needs and well being as it is for that of the clients
• Social work as an advocacy work


  • Promotes the rights of those who are most vulnerable and those are unable to voice out their grievances
  • Social workers are known for carrying advocacies, may they be local or international in scope
  • Social worker acquire firsthand knowledge of the difficulties that are faced by their clients
  • Social Worker provide for the social services and the necessary resources that shall maintain the basic needs of the clients
• Educating through social work


  Social workers can educate people by teaching them how to cultivate resources on their own and by imparting ways on how these people could develop their life skills and well-being. A popular method used by social workers educate others through psycho-education where relevant information on how to make appropriate situation-based decisions are provided to clients.
• Fostering socialization through social work


  Defined the concept of developmental socialization as the attempt through providing support information and opportunities to help people enhance their environments by making the most of their roles. Confronted by different obstacles including abuse and oppression that prevent them maximizing their potentials to contribute to society. Help individuals, groups or communities enhance restore their capacity for social functioning and creating societal conditions favorable the goal.