The Discipline of
Social Work
SOCIAL WORK
• Social work is required to be responsive, dynamic
and visionary
• The method of helping and humanitarian
assistance
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SOCIAL WORK
✘ National ✘ UNESCO
Association of
Social Workers • Social work as a field
(NASW) within human services
and considers it as an
• Social work as a important service
professional activity of focusing on individuals
helping individuals, and families in need of
groups or communities to help
enhance or restore their
capacity for social
functioning
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SOCIAL WORK
✘ Australian Association of Social
Workers (AASW) and International
Federation of Social Workers (IFSW)
• Social work promotes social change, problem-
solving in human relationships and the
empowerment and liberation of people to
enhance well-being.
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SOCIAL WORK
✘ B r i t i s h A s s o c i a t i o n o f S o c i a l Wo r k e r s
(2012)
• Social work professional promotes social change, problems solving
in human relationships and the empowerment and liberation of the
people to enhance well-being
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SOCIAL WORK
✘ Barker (1999) ✘ Mendoza (2002)
• Social change as an • Social work as a
applied science of profession which is
helping people achieve
considered about the
an effective level of
psychological adjustment to one’s
functioning and effecting environment (social
societal changes to functioning
enhance well-being of all
people.
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Morales and Sheafor (1983)
Areas of consideration:
1. Enabling or facilitating change
2. Enhancing social functioning
3. Help people interact with their social
environment
4. Securing resources to attain goals
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GOALS
The Goal on…
✘ CARING ✘ CURING ✘ CHANGING
Heart of social work; Treating people with Active participation in
involves the problems in social social reforms;
enhancement of the recognition of
functioning; involves
quality of life, political, economic
counseling approaches
humanizing services and and social situations
constant advancement of such as transactional that would allow
care given to those in analysis, and family, effective improvement
need reality, psychomotor of social services and
and Rolfing therapy quality of life.
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SCOPE
SOCIAL
WORK AS A
P R I M A RY
DISCIPLINE
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C H I L D W E L FA R E
• Adoption and services to unmarried parents –
decision making to keep the baby or place in
adoption
• Foster care - removing children from their homes
and placing in foster care
• Residential care - group care home treatment center
for a child
• Support in own home - providing support services
to keep children in their homes
• Protective Services - protecting children from
abuse, maltreatment and exploitation
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FA M I LY S E R V I C E S
• Family Counseling – involves family case work,
family group work and family therapy
• Family Life Education – understand and anticipate
the normal patterns and stresses of the family
• Family Planning – assistance in planning number,
space and timing of births
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INCOME MAINTENANCE
• Public Assistance - provision of financial aid to the
poor
• Social Insurances - employer-employee
funded contributions
• Others include cash in kind benefits, emergency
support funds
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SOCIAL
WORK AS
AN EQUAL
PA RT N E R
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AGING
• Support for people in their own homes (home-care
services)
• Support for people in long-term care facilities
(nursing homes)
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COMMUNITY SERVICES
• Community Organization – involves data
gathering and analysis, delivery of quality service
and information dissemination
• Community Planning – physical, economic and
health planning
• Community Development – providing aid in
enhancing community conditions.
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✗ YOUTH AND GROUP ✗ MENTAL HEALTH
SERVICES
• Institutionalizing of
• Recreational Facilities
patients through individual
• Educational Facilities hospital treatments
• i.e YMCA • Deinstitutionalize by foster
and residential care
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SOCIAL
WORK AS A
S E C O N D A RY
DISCIPLINE
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S C H O O L S : 7 P R I M A RY TA S K S
Lela Costin (1983)
1. Facilitate provision of direct educational and social services and
direct social casework and group work services
2. Acts as pupil advocate
3. Consult with school administrators about major problems and
planned service approach
4. Consult with teachers about techniques for creating a free and
motivated classroom, assist in managing peers and relationships in
school
5. Organize parent and community groups
6. Develop and maintain liaison between school and social work
7. Provide leadership among student services personnel
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✗ MEDICAL AND ✗ INDUSTRY ✗ CORRECTIONA
HEALTH CARE L FACILITIES
• Support to
• Attends to social managers and • Counseling and
and psychological employees; link to outside
employees with world
factors social problems for
contributing to the individual, family
medical condition and group
of patients counseling; and
assist in
management
decisions that might
have social impacts
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CORE
VALUES
COUNCIL OF SOCIAL WORK DUBOIS AND MILEY N AT I O N A L
EDUCATION (MENDOZA, (2002) A S S O C I AT I O N
2002) OF
SOCIAL
1. Compassion WORKERS
1. Right To Self Fulfillment
2. Responsibility To 2. Service and
Competence 1. Service
Common Good 2. Social Justice
3. Responsibility Of The 3. Social Justice
4. Dignity and Worth 3. Dignity and Worth
Society 4. Human
4. Right To Satisfy Basic of the Person
5. Importance of Relationships
Needs 5. Integrity
5.Social Organizations Human Relationships
6. Integrity 6. Competence
Required To Facilitate
Individual's Effort At Self-
Realization Social Services
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PRINCIPLES
PRINCIPLES OF SOCIAL WORK
Mendoza (2002)
✘ SELF-
✘ ACCEPTANCE ✘ CLIENT’S
DETERMINATION
PARTICIPATION IN
respecting client's and PROBLEM SOLVING
client's have the right to
understanding client's
determine needs and how
behavior and situation a client is expected to
to met such needs
participate in the entirety of
✘ INDIVIDUALIZATION the process
recognizing and
understanding client's ✘ WORKER’S SELF ✘ CLIENT-WORKER
unique characteristics and AWARENESS RELATIONSHIP
using appropriate method consciousness about role in
help clients in problem areas
client's development rather
✘ CONFIDENTIALITY of social functioning
than in own
protection within limits of
law, from harm; entails
privacy
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B r i t i s h A s s o c i a t i o n o f S o c i a l Wo r k e r s
(2012)
✘ RELATIVE TO
PROFESSIONAL
✘ RELATIVE TO HUMAN ✘ RELATIVE TO SOCIAL
INTEGRITY
RIGHTS JUSTICE
Upholding values and
Human dignity and well- Challenging discrimination, reputation of the profession,
being, right to self- recognizing diversity, being trustworthy,
determination and distributing resources, maintaining professional
participation, creating a challenging unjust policies boundaries, marking
person as a whole and and practices and working in professional judgements and
developing strengths solidarity being professional
accountable
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GROUP 1: WeCare (Social Work)
REPORTERS:
Salvadora
Gentalian
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