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• Social work


  A profession concerned with helping individuals, families, groups and communities to enhance their individual and collective well-being
• Government social workers


  • Involved in research, technology development, policy analysis and development, planning, standards development, capacity building, program management including crisis intervention and disaster relief operation and management, social marketing and special projects (e.g. Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program)
• Private sector social workers


  • Offer services such as advocacy, counselling, mediation, policy and program development, organizational development, corporate social responsibility and employee's assistance program
• Civil society social workers


  • Involved in managing cases of child-caring and child-placing social welfare, and cases of children in conflict with the law
• School social workers


  • Aid the students in the adjustment in school as well as guide them in their scholastic performance and deal with students with problems like bullying, low self-esteem, aggressive behavior, discrimination and family conflicts that affect their school performance
• Community social workers


  • Employed in different community service centers run by social councils, churches and people's organizations
• Types of clients in social work

  • Voluntary (walk-in)
  • Involuntary (reach-out)
  • Referred by others
• Voluntary clients


  Opted to voluntarily seek assistance of the worker or the services of the agency due to a problem or a difficulty which they think they cannot do anything by themselves
• Voluntary clients


  • Solo parent seeking material assistance, a displaced person asking for core shelter assistance, a physically challenged person needing medical attention
• Involuntary clients


  May not even consider asking for help because they think that they are doing fine and will survive somehow or they are unaware of the agencies that can provide with them some assistance
• Involuntary clients


  • Street children, working children, some children/youth in indigenous communities and some out-of-school youth
• Referred clients


  • Drug dependent, abandoned child, unwed pregnant, an elderly without any family
• Acceptance


  The worker's recognition of the individual's worth as human being imbued with inherent worth and dignity
• Nonjudgmental attitude


  Without labeling, no stereotyping and non-condemnatory act that refrains from assigning blame, guilt or failure to the client
• Individualization


  Characterizes that every individual is unique and possesses certain traits or attributes specific only to her/himself
• Purposeful expression of feelings


  Worker's allowing and facilitating the client's purposeful expression of feelings, the free sharing with a sympathetic worker of their thoughts and feelings even the negative ones
• Controlled emotional involvement


  The worker's way of responding to the client's purposeful expression of feelings, involving sensitivity, understanding, and responding while keeping their own emotions under control and empathizing but not over-identifying with the client
• Confidentiality


  Preservation of secret information concerning the client which is disclosed in the professional relationship
• Self-determination

  The belief in the inherent worth and dignity of a person, that they are endowed with reason and free will and are capable of making their own choices, and the right and need of the person to make their own choices and decisions as they are being helped
• Growth group


  Aims for the personal growth of the participants in group at all levels in their emotional, interpersonal, intellectual and spiritual phase of their life, to make people better, develop group trust and in-depth relationship, encourage constructive changes in both attitudes and feelings as well as behavior and relationships, and awaken the innate drive in every individual in the group to develop their potentials
• Treatment group

  Helps solve the individual's problems in social adjustment, uncover deep-seated conflicts, hostilities and depression, modify/sublimate antisocial/aberrant behaviors/attitudes
• Social group


  Provides opportunities for social relationships to the lonely, friendless and those who have problems in relating with other persons, aims to form a friendly and congenial atmosphere, provide program activities for greater interaction, and organize the group for club activities with social orientation to become agent of change in their community
• Interest group


  Primarily answer the unmet interests/needs of the group members through appropriate program of activities and services to the agency as well as the community, provision for appropriate outlets that would meet the varied unmet interests of the members through creative and innovative activities, programs, and services
• Play/Recreation group


  Provide pleasurable activities through games, dances, songs/music, dramatics and other leisure time activities as medium for meeting the individual's leisure and recreational needs that would also redound to their development
• The five basic steps of social work process

  1. Assessment

  2. Planning

  3. Intervention or plan implementation

  4. Evaluation

  5. Termination
• Assessment


  Process and a product of understanding on which action is based. It involved the collection of necessary information, analysis and interpretation to reach an understanding of the client, the problem and the social context in which it exist.
• Planning


  Link between assessment and intervention and its process translates the content of assessment into a goal statement that describes the desired results and it concerned with identifying the means to reach the goals. It involves two major tasks: formulating goals that directly relate with the client's problem and defining solution towards achieving a planned charge as end goal.
• Intervention


  Concerned with the action that would solve the client's problem. It involves rendering of all the specific and interrelated services that are deemed appropriate to address or respond the client's problem. It includes series of activities that the client and worker will undertake following an agreement forged between them based on the problem that they need to be addressed and the plan of action they will pursue.
• Evaluation


  Collection of data about outcomes of the program of action relative to goals and objectives set in advance of the implementation of that program. It is continuous process of gathering information which can be utilized in an ongoing reassessment of objectives, intervention plans and even the problem definition.
• Aspects of evaluation


  • Effectiveness - refers to the question on whether or not the services or intervention plans are accomplishing their intended goals
  • Efficiency - cost of services and intervention plans (money and time)