Lesson 7: The Discipline of Social Work (PDF)

Lesson 7: The Discipline of Social Work  S.Y. 2024-2025 LEARNING OBJECTIVES: 1. define social work 2. explain the context and the basic concepts of social work; 3. describes the goals and scope of social work; 4. discuss the principles of s...

Lesson 7: The Discipline of Social Work  S.Y. 2024-2025 LEARNING OBJECTIVES: 1. define social work 2. explain the context and the basic concepts of social work; 3. describes the goals and scope of social work; 4. discuss the principles of social work; and  S.Y. 2024-2025 BASIC NEEDS REHABILITA Social Work SECURITY TE CARING EDUCATION  S.Y. 2024-2025 Discipline of Social Work Closely associated with government welfare and social program aimed at achieving social justice, fairness, and attainment of social equilibrium. Social Work is a response to a concern or need, a creative blending of knowledge, value, and skills, a problem solving process, an intervention into human transactions  S.Y. 2024-2025 Social Work The professional activity of helping individuals, groups, or communities, enhance and restore their capacity for social functioning and creating societal conditions favorable to this goal. Social Functioning- The match between the needs and abilities of individuals and the opportunities and demands of the environment. Relates to living to the expectations made by the self, the immediate social community, and the society at large of an individual. Social work provide basic and complex needs of people in the community. Social work requires empathy and the willingness to help other people.  S.Y. 2024-2025 The Goals of Social Work Profession Promotes social Protect vulnerable Social workers change, problem- people from help with legal solving in human abuse, neglect, or frameworks for relationships self-harm and to protecting and empowerment, help enhance their supporting and liberation of well-being and vulnerable people. people. quality of life. 1 2 3  S.Y. 2024-2025 International Federation of Social Workers (2013) The Social worker profession promotes social change, problem-solving in human relationships, and the empowerment, and liberation of people to enhance well-being. Utilizing theories of human behavior and social systems, social work intervenes at the points where people interact with their environments. Remember: Social work is a profession that fulfills the social welfare mandate to promote well-being and quality of life. It encompasses activities directed at improving human and social conditions and alleviating human distress and social problems.  S.Y. 2024-2025 SOCIAL SOCIAL CARE WORK Social care doesn’t require a license. It can be pure volunteerism. Social work on the other hand is a qualified, registered profession with a protected title.  S.Y. 2024-2025 The History of The aim of Social Work Social Work is to help individualism fit better into the environment and change the environment so that it works better for them. After World War II, the need for immediate and palliative measures was so great during the early postwar years that only material assistance could be provided. The Influx of American and other international experts on social work efforts probably promoted the introduction of the professional concept. This fact, together with the realization among the Filipino people that relief can be systematic means to alleviate suffering with more lasting effects, spurred professional development. The United Nation and the US was the pioneer in teaching Social Work as  S.Y. 2024-2025 The Context of Social Work Is a place that requires professionals to direct their service on the needs and empowerment of people who experience some forms of vulnerability, oppression and poverty. a world world view of human issues S.Y. 2024-2025 Goals and Scope of Social Work Support Proactive Empower People Uphold the integrity Position Develop cooperative Establish linkages to people networks Facilitate Promote Social responsiveness Justice Contribute to the development of knowledge for social work Encourage exchange of Enhance information communication Employ educational Embrace a and solutions to strategies problems  S.Y. 2024-2025 The Principles of Social Work The Policy, Ethics, and Human Rights Committee of the British Association of Social Work (2012) 1. Principles relative to Respect for Human Rights 2. Principles relative to Professional 3. Principles Integrity relative to Social Justice  S.Y. 2024-2025 The Principles of Social Work The Policy, Ethics, and Human Rights Committee of the British Association of Social Work (2012) 1. Principles relative to Respect for Human Rights Upholding and promoting human dignity and well-being Respect the right to self-determination. Promote the right to participation. Creating each person as a whole. Identifying and developing strengths.  S.Y. 2024-2025 The Principles of Social Work The Policy, Ethics, and Human Rights Committee of the British Association of Social Work (2012) 2. Principles relative to Professional Integrity Upholding the values and reputation of the profession. Being trustworthy. Maintaining professional Boundaries. Making considered professional judgements. Being professionally accountable.  S.Y. 2024-2025 The Principles of Social Work The Policy, Ethics, and Human Rights Committee of the British Association of Social Work (2012) 3. Principles relative to Social Justice Challenging discrimination. Recognizing diversity. Distributing resources. Challenging unjust policies and practices. Working in solidarity.  S.Y. 2024-2025 1. Core Values of Social Work COMPASSIO 2 N. SERVICE 3. SOCIAL 4. DIGNITY AND WORTH OF JUSTICE 5. THE IMPORTANCE PERSON OF HUMAN 6. RELATIONSHIPS 7. INTEGRITY COMPETENC E  S.Y. 2024-2025 1. Core Values of Social Work COMPASSIO can be considered as an important value for all humankind but N in social work, it occupies a special impetus to the functioning of the profession. It is the basis for someone to go out and become a voice to the voiceless and a friend to the people who need it most. 2. SERVICE as a value, directs social workers to go beyond purely performing a service for a pay and allow them to be generous with their time. Their work borders on charity and professional service. Without a special interest in pure service, much of the social work could not be properly accomplished.  S.Y. 2024-2025 Core Values of Social Work 3. SOCIAL JUSTICE as a value for social workers, is a basis of their understanding of the need to ensure that everyone get serviced and that everyone get a share of what the community possesses in 4. DIGNITY AND WORTH OF material and non-material assets. THE PERSON is a value that provides the determination and drive for social workers to seek the marginalized in all forms without much regard as to whether such problem is self-inflicted or socially imposed. At the heart of social work is the belief that all humans have dignity and worth regardless of their acts and status in life.  S.Y. 2024-2025 Core Values of Social Work 5. IMPORTANCE OF HUMAN RELATIONSHIPS as a value, makes it possible for social workers to do their job as most human situations they seek to address require collaborating with so many others professionals and individuals with a stake in the issue. It is about relationships. After all, it 6. is in the context of relationships where people find themselves broken and marginalized. A relationship is the context of social INTEGRIT marginalization and inclusion. is necessary in all human endeavors. In social work, nothing Y can be accomplished without integrity. A social worker will have diffi culties to be accepted by the people to services and by those he/she needs to collaborate with to facilitate problem solving and empowerment of an individual or a group.  S.Y. 2024-2025 7. Core Values of Social Work COMPETEN is a very important value for social work because it CE social caregiving from social work professional separate practice, Through special training a social worker become separated from all common sense, culture, and religious-based care.  S.Y. 2024-2025 Function of Social Work 1.Restoration of impaired social function a. Curative/ Rehabilitative b. Remedial 2.Developmental Society 3. Prevention of Social Dysfunction  S.Y. 2024-2025 Thank you !!!!! S.Y. 2024-2025