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SOCIAL

WORK
W I T H M I S S A C O S TA
OBJECTIVES:
Identify the Goals of Social Work

Explain the Scope of


Social Work
Express personal view about Social Work
profession in the Philippine Setting
SOCIAL
WORK
Morales and Sheafor
(1983) identified four
areas of consideration:
1. In each helping
situation, the social worker
is concerned with enabling
or facilitating change.
Interventions to improve
the quality of life may
appropriately occur as part
2. The social worker is in
the business of helping
people or social
institutions, such as family,
change to enhance social
functioning. It is not to
focus on the whole person
3. Applying the social systems
theory, social work can be
viewed as a profession that
helps people interact more
effectively with their social
environment. The focus is
placed on the “interface or the
meeting place or the
transaction of person and the
(William Gordon, as cited by Morales and
4. In helping to achieve
their goals of improved
social functioning, the
social worker must have
handles in fortifying and
securing the necessary
resources to attain the
Goals of
SOCIA
L
The main goal of social
work is to improve a
society’s overall well-
being, especially for the
most vulnerable
populations.
Morales and Sheafor
(1983) specified three
(3) distinguishing goals
of social work namely:
caring, curing, and
changing.
1. The Goal on Caring
- refers to the heart of
social work; it focuses on
the well-being or the
welfare and comfort of
the individual and
2. The Goal on Curing
- refers to the
aspect of treating
people with
problems in
3. The Goal on Changing
- refers to the
active
participation of
the social workers
Scope
S Oof
CIA
L
According to
Morales and
Sheafor (1983)
Fields included in
Social Work:
1. Social
Work as
Primary
Discipline
a. Adoption and services to
unmarried parents

- Difficult decision to keep


the baby or place it for
adoption
- Applies both individual
and group counseling to
b. Foster Care

- Removing children from


homes and placing them to
foster homes temporarily
- Works with the parents,
child and court to administer
court decisions to remove a
child due to detrimental
c. Residential Care

- Group care home or a


residential treatment center
- These are for children
exhibiting anti-social
behaviors that require
intensive treatment
d. Support in own home

- Support services to keep


children in their own homes
- Counseling, family
consultations, clients with
appropriate institutions such
as day care centers and
home maker services.
e. Protective Services

- Protecting the child from


abuse, maltreatment,
exploitation by parents
- Seeks to protect the child
without infringing the
rights of parents
f. Family Services

- Family counseling involves


family case work, family group
work and family therapy
- Family life education
strengthens family relationships
through educational activities to
prevent family breakdown -
- Family planning involves
planning the number,
spacing
and timing of child
births to fit
with their needs
- Make decisions about the
patterns of reproduction
g. Income maintenance

- Public assistance, financial


aid to the poor.
- It includes cash grants,
food stamps, general
assistance such as hospital
and medical care, and
supplemental security
- Social Insurance, social
provisions that funded by
employers and employees
through contributions to a
specific program.
- Other forms, cash in kind
benefits, emergency support
funds, and other resources that
can be used by the poor for
2. Social
Work as an
Equal
Partner
a. Support for people in
their own homes program

- Helping older people


remain in their homes and
linking them with
community programs such
as health care, meals and
b. Support for people
in the long term care
facilities

- Refers to nursing
homes or other group
living facilities
c. Community Services

- Community Organization
activities, gathering and
analysis of data, matching
delivery of services to the
population distribution,
securing funds, coordination
with existing agencies and
educating the general public
- Community planning,
involvement of social
workers with the
physical, economic and
health planners in the
long-range planning of
communities
3. Social
Work as a
Secondary
Discipline
a. Correctional
Facilities, provide
counseling and link
them to the outside
world, provide
support upon release
b. Industry,
support to both
managers and
employees.
Serves as basis
for employment
c. Medical and Health
care, attend to the
social and
psychological factors
contributing to the
medical condition of
d. Schools, facilitate
the provision of direct
educational and social
services and provide
direct social case work
and group work to
selected students
- Act as pupil advocate
focusing on the urgent
needs of the selected
students
- Consult with school
administrators’ major
problems toward a
planned service
- Consult with teachers
about techniques for
creating a free and
motivating climate for
children by interpreting
social and cultural
influences
- Organize parent and
community groups to channel
concerns
- Develop and maintain liaison
between the school and social
work
- Provide leadership in
coordination of student
services in guidance, clinic
Activit

y
Activity
Connecting with Social Work
#2:
Welfare Agencies
Provided the list of Government Agencies
and Non-Government Organization which
has Programs in alleviating people’s
sufferings. What Goals of Social Work
were employed? Give details about the
known programs and circumstances
where each organization and agency are
1. World Health Organization
2. Sagip Kapamilya
3.GMA Kapuso Foundation
4. UNICEF
5. BayaniJuan
6. Bantay Bata 163
7. Department of Social
Welfare
Activity Express
Yourself.
#3:
There are people who are
suffering from Mental Health.
Apply your creativity thru
writing (doodles, art using
photo editors, etc.) a piece of
advice by way of short saying
which is personally crafted.
Thank
You

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