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• Social Work


  A response to a concern or needs; a creative blending of knowledge, value, and skills; a problem solving process; an intervention into human transactions; and a developing profession
• Focuses on helping a person to cope or adjust to his difficulties in the performance of his social roles
• Social Work


  Engages people and communities to address life challenges and traumatic events, to create change, and build resiliency
• Goals of Social Work

  • Humanitarian and Social Justice
  • Social Control
  • Economic Development
• Humanitarian and Social Justice


  Strengthens the belief that it is right and just for man to help man
• Social Control


  Aims to achieve balance between safety and security in the society and who threaten this security because they felt deprived of sources and access to have satisfying lives
• Economic Development


  Prioritizes programs that are designed to increase the production of goods and services
• 3 Main Functions of Social Work

  • Restorative/Rehabilitative Function
  • Preventive Function
  • Development Function
• Restorative/Rehabilitative Function


  Aims to make normal or healthy a person's social functioning by determining the factors which have caused the breakdown in his daily life functioning
• Preventive Function


  Early detection may prevent and totally eliminate the problem
• Development Function


  Makes use of education and information to equip the clients in developing his potentials and capabilities
• Core Values of Social Work

  • Each person has the right to self-fulfillment
  • Each person has the obligation, as member of society, to seek ways of self-fulfillment that will generally contribute to the common good
  • Society has the obligation to facilitate the self-fulfillment of the individual and his right to enrichment through the contribution of its individual members
  • Each person requires for the harmonious development of his powers, socially safe-guarded opportunities for satisfying basic needs
  • As society becomes more complex and interdependent, increasingly specialized social organizations are required to facilitate the individual's effort for self-realization
• Social Work Practice Principles

  • Acceptance - understand and embrace the situation of your client. No judgment
  • Self-determination - the client's choice should be considered
  • Affirming individuality - respecting individual preferences and qualities
  • Confidentiality - respecting their privacy
  • Workers' self-awareness - know oneself to understand others
  • Collective responsibility - everyone must participate
• Roles, Functions and Competence of Social Workers

  • Communicator
  • Counselor
  • Psychotherapist
  • Advocate
  • Broker
  • Case Manager
  • Educator
  • Organizer
  • Facilitator
• Communicator


  May include assessment of new clients or summaries of progress
• Counselor


  Counseling is undertaken to help people cope with stress, handle a crisis, or deal with a changing life circumstances
• Psychotherapist


  Specially trained and certified professionals help resolved symptoms of mental disorder, psychosocial stress, other difficulties coping
• Advocate


  A person who fights for the rights of others
• Broker


  They make use referrals to link a family or person to a needed resource
• Case Manager


  The goal is to increase access to care and ensure that good quality care is provided
• Educator


  They provide information to people about the availability of resources
• Organizer


  The social worker's role could be used to effect policy changes within the social agency
• Facilitator


  Engages in communication with the client for planning and decision making in the attainment of his goals
• Areas of Specialization of Social Work

  • Child, Family and School Social Workers
  • Community Social Worker
  • Hospice and Palliative Social Worker
  • Medical and Health Social Workers
  • Mental Health and Substance Abuse Social Workers
  • Military and Veterans Social Worker
  • Psychiatric Social Worker
  • Cultural Communities
  • Industry and Labor
  • Education and Training
• Child, Family and School Social Workers

  Child welfare concerned with the wellbeing of children and youth, Family welfare concerned with establishment and strengthening the family in meeting it's need, School social worker employs ways for intervention, assessment, counseling and capability structure of students with collaboration of school personnel and parents to the social development program
• Community Social Worker


  Immersing to the community to assessed programs for community development for the betterment of social setting
• Hospice and Palliative Social Worker


  Often help or care for those who are terminally ill
• Medical and Health Social Workers

  Works in hospital setting to help an individual cross the struggles that a serious medical condition cause the individual and family
• Mental Health and Substance Abuse Social Workers

  Rehabilitation and capability building are focuses on these with individuals who struggles substance abuse or mental problems
• Military and Veterans Social Worker


  Focuses on the role adjustment and post-traumatic stress of returning home soldiers
• Psychiatric Social Worker


  Work provides therapy and assess the psychiatric health of the patient
• Cultural Communities


  Works closely with individuals or groups in the marginalized sector to minimize or eliminate discrimination
• Industry and Labor


  Services on these field is for the welfare of employees and family
• Education and Training


  Services on these field is for the welfare of employees and focuses on the students
• Purposes of Social Work

  • Enhance social functioning of individuals, groups, families, organizations, and communities
  • Link client systems with needed resources
  • Improve the operation of social service delivery network
  • Promote social justice through development of social policy
• Social Work provide resources, opportunities and solutions for disadvantaged for their social welfare
• It restores social function or their abilities to live normally in the society
• Its values and principles are centered on being humane
• Social Work tries to resolve problems of people to promote his development and well-being
• African Diaspora refers to the movement of African peoples across international borders as a result of forced migration during the transatlantic slave trade.