SW101: Knowledge & Philosophical Foundation of the SW

• categories of social welfare

  • Social security
  • Personal services
  • Public assistance or welfare
• Goals of social welfare

  • Humanitarian and social justice goals
  • social control goals
  • economic development goals
• Recognition that the needy, deprived, or disadvantaged groups may strike out against what they consider to be an alienating or offending society; services to dissidents, juvenile, or adult offenders.

  Social control goals
• Programs, services, and other activities are provided to concretely answer the needs and problems of the members of the society.

  Social services
• An individual's interactions with their environment and the ability to fulfill their role; living up to expectations; interaction between the individual and is situation or environment.

  social functioning
• patterns of behavior which are assumes in a specific situation in his her relationship with others; activities/task expected from an individual

  social roles
• elements of roles

  • prescribed (ideal) role
  • perceived role
  • performed role
  • role performance modification
• factors affecting social functioning

  Internal Forces

  • Genetics
  • State of health and nutrition
  • Feeling /emotions

  External Forces

  • culture
  • values
  • norms
• variables affecting social functioning

  • physical
  • social
  • cultural
  • psychological
  • ego psychology
• stages of social functioning

  • well-being
  • stress
  • problem
  • crisis
  • disability
• social functioning triangle

  • satisfaction with roles in life
  • positive relationship
  • feeling of self-worth
• attributes of the social work profession

  • systematic body of theory
  • professional authority
  • community sanction
  • regulative code of ethics
  • professional culture
• types of knowledge that social work uses

  • tested knowledge - established thru scientific study
  • hypothetical knowledge - unproved theories
  • assumptive knowledge - practice wisdom; more experience in practice, more assumptions
• functions of social work

  • restorative/curative/remedial/rehabilitative
  • preventive
  • developmental
• components of social work profession

  • value - sources of attitudes
  • skills - facts and information
  • knowledge - art of the profession
• body of principles where the professional's attitudes are based

  philosophical foundation
• different views on man

  • natural vs transcendental view - natural: man is part of nature and can be studied scientifically; transcendental: science can never fully explain man
  • man as social, asocial, or anti-social - social: making personal goals subservient to groups goals; asocial: form groups for mutual protection/safety; anti-social: self-seeking, egoistic, personal gain
  • democratic view - rational being capable of reason and choice
• concepts implied in the values

  • human potential and capacities - ability to fulfill herself because of inherent capabilities
  • social responsibility - obligation of each one to contribute to the common good/society
  • equal opportunity - social justice: fairness, equality in access of services
  • social provision - social resources to satisfy human needs
• Filipino cultural values (dominant values)

  • social acceptance
  • utang na loob
  • paggalang
• social work principles (mendoza)

  • acceptance
  • client participation
  • client self-determination
  • individualization
  • confidentiality
  • worker's self-awareness
  • client-worker relationship

  add:

  • non-judgemental attitude
  • purposeful expression of feelings and controlled emotional involvement
• serves as base in terms of which a professional rationalizes his operations in concrete situations

  theory
• refers to the provision of social assistance and services which will lead to the optimum development and fulfilment of the client's potential

  developmental function
• all social units are conceived as systems with subsystems (internal organizations) that relate to other systems in the environment.

  system theory
• a whole consisting of interdependent and interacting parts; a set of units with relationships among them

  concept of system/systems theory
• engaged in interchanges with the environment and continues to grow and change

  open system
• not in interaction with other systems; has entropy

  closed system
• Closed circle around selected variables where there is less interchange of energy or communication across the circle around than there is within the circle

  boundaries
• Conflict that can be destructive or constructive

  Tension
• Types of Social Systems

  • change agent system
  • client system
  • target system
  • action system
  • professional system
  • problem identification system
• Agency / Organization that employs the Social Worker who will make

  plans toward change

  Change Agent System
• Asks for the Social Workers services, expected to benefit from the services and have entered into an explicit contract with the worker.

  Client System
• People that need to change or be influenced by the change agents to

  accomplish goals.

  Target System
• Systems interacted with by the worker in a cooperative way to bring about change helpful to the client

  Action System
• Values and sanctions of professional

  practice

  Professional System
• System that acts to bring a potential client to the worker’s

  attention

  Problem Identification System
• Human can be best understood only in the context of the systems where they live

  ECOLOGICAL SYSTEMS THEORY (Urie Bronfenbrenner)
• Believes that the child and youth development is influenced by many different “contexts,” “settings,” or “ecologies” (such as family, peers, schools, communities, sociocultural belief systems, policy regimes, and the economy)

  BIOECOLOGICAL SYSTEMS THEORY
• Impacts a child directly; The people with whom the child interacts (parents, peers, and teachers)

  Microsystem
• Interactions between those subsystems surrounding the individual which have indirectly effects to the child

  Mesosystem
• Larger institutions such as the mass media or the healthcare system, which have an impact on families and peers and schools who operate under policies and regulations found in these institutions

  Exosystem