Diass 11

• Social Work Method

  It will help social workers understand ways of helping people
• 2 types of Social Work Method

  • Direct Helping Method
  • Auxiliary Method
• Direct Helping Methods has the:

  • Social Case work
  • Social Group Work
  • Community Organization
• Social Case Work: Deals with individual problems, Often, an individual in unable to deal with problems on his own because of reasons beyond his control
• Social Group Work: Is a social work method is which a professionally qualified person helps individuals through group experience to help them move towards improved relationships and social functioning
• Community Organization: Is a process by which a systematic attempt is made to improve relationships in a community
• Auxiliary has the :

  • Social Welfare Administration
  • Social Work Research
  • Social Action
• Social Welfare Administration: is a method through which social work services are organize administered
• Social Work research: is a systematic investigation for finding out new facts, testing old hypothesis, verifying existing theories, and discovering the causal relationships of the problems in which the social worker is interested
• Social Action: Aims at bringing about desirable changes to ensure social progress
• Social Work Process: process is a sequence of actions or tasks that assist social worker to prepare, for carry out, evaluate and be accountable for and reflect on their actions while providing for the clients needs or helping them resolve their problems
• The social process has:

  • Assesment
  • Diagnosis
  • Treatment Plan
  • Evaluation
• Assesment: With Social work problem-solving nature, it naturally begins with assesment or problems and current situtation
• Psycholocosial assessment : is being used by social workers to summarize relevant information about a client into concise statements that allow other professionals to understand the client's and other clients problems
• Diagnosis: Is conducted with diagnostic statement or brief overview of what considered as the most relevant provblem experience by the client and its potential causation. It offen suggest a label defining what the client problem is
• Treatment Plan: Describe the goals of treatment during specific period of time and comes from the agreement made between the worker and client.
• Evaluation: While treatment may be the reason the patient recovers , it is not always certain. this is when evaluaton is very important
• History: How long did the problems last before the client came for help? The longer a social or emotional condition lasted before the client came the social work for help, the less likely it is that the client recovered by chance.
• Baseline: When meeting the client for the first time baseline reading for their problems is being done. finding out how much they asleep, how much they weigh, their level of exercise, how much work or school they miss, and how often and how much they drink or taken drugs.
• Outside Verification: can be asked to see if the client is doing well. this help gives social workers evaluation a way of factoring out the tendency of clients to tell the former that things are better or worse than they really are and makes evaluation more valid and reliable
• Psycological test: a client can be given a psychological test to test for any numbers of problems, including depression and anxiety
• Statistic Test : Simple test can tell whether it was social work that led to change or some other chance occurance
• Ask the client: The social worker can ask the client directly whether it was the social work or something else that caused their improvements
• Ask other professionals: other professionals may be asked to evaluate the client before, during, and after treatment ends and let them decide whether the client has improved and if it was due to the help
• ask people in the clients life: Important people in the clients life can be asked to provide feedback about the reasons they improved
• life changes: that may have profound effect on peoples emotional health
• School Social Work Services: are an integral part of the school community. As much, they may serve as the link between the home, school, and community. They are trained mental health professionals that provide direct as well as indirect services to student, families, school personnel, and even districts.
• Services to student: participate in special education and evaluation teams, including preparing social or developmental history for a child with a disability and delivering counseling as a related service identified in individualized education plans
• Services to school personnel and division: participate in division and school based team to address school-related concerns such as mental and behavioral health and attendance, including assisting with functional behavior assessments for students
• Services to district: assist developing and implementing educational programs for children for exceptional children
• child welfare social work services: social worker are wholly concerned with the health and well-being of children from any and cultural and/or socioeconomic backrouds
• Mental Health Social Work Services: social worker provide mental health services in both clinical and nonclinical setting, through many choose to seek out accreditation that allows them to take on active roles in diagnosing and treating mental illnes
• Medical Social Work Services: Social workers typically found in clinical settings, such as hospitals and rehabilitation centers, where they prepare patients for life outside of medical institutions