Rehabilitation and Socially Disadvantaged Groups

Rehabilitation

• The goal of rehabilitation is to return a patient to a normal, healthy condition after an illness, injury, surgery, or other circumstances.
• Rehabilitation involves restoring someone to health or normal life through training and therapy.

Types of Rehabilitation

• Rehabilitation centers for drug dependents, socially disadvantaged women, released prisoners, former patients of psychiatric institutions, older persons, persons with disabilities, and alcohol dependents.
• Examples of rehabilitation centers in Pampanga:
  • Central Luzon Drug Rehabilitation Center
  • Bridges of Hope Drug and Alcohol Rehabilitation

Community Welfare

• Community welfare is a field of social work that encompasses various programs and services aimed at promoting the well-being of entire communities.
• Social workers in community welfare work with individuals, families, and small groups to provide opportunities for people to work together towards common goals.
• Community welfare practices are found in community development agencies, public housing projects, relocations, and resettlement areas, and work with cultural communities.

Community Development

• Community development is the process by which the efforts of the people themselves are united with those of government to improve the economic, social, and cultural conditions of the community.
• The aim of community development is to integrate the community into the life of the nation and enable it to contribute fully to national progress.
• Two essential elements of community development:
  • Participation of the people themselves in efforts to improve their level of living with as much reliance as possible on their own initiative.
  • It is viewed as a privilege granted to a prisoner for good behavior and is considered useful in rehabilitation outside the prison.

Parole and Probation

• Parole is a process of rehabilitation outside the prison, where a prisoner is released conditionally and is supervised by a parole officer.
• Parole officers work both inside and outside prisons, assessing prisoners' lives, determining job prospects, preparing reports for parole boards, and helping parolees obtain training and jobs.
• Probation is a period of time before a person is sent to prison or jail, where they are given an opportunity to show that they want to rehabilitate themselves.
• Probation officers work with defendants on probation, supervising their activities and ensuring they meet the conditions set by the court.

Qualifications for Parole and Probation Officers

• Aspiring parole and probation officers can obtain an accredited bachelor's degree in social work, criminal justice, psychology, sociology, or other relevant fields.

Corrections

• Corrections is a process of treatment by the court for persons convicted of offenses against the law, during which the individual on probation lives in the community and regulates their own life under conditions imposed by the court.
• Modern society's response to those who violate the criminal law is not to eliminate the offender, but to assign them a degraded supervised status for a specific period of time.
• The administration of penalty in such a way that the offender is corrected, that is, their current behavior is kept within acceptable limits at the same time their general life is improved.