SOCIAL WORK FROM SOCIAL CARE TO SOCIAL

● Associated with government welfare WORK

and social programs ● Social work has evolved from being a
● Aimed at achieving social justice, domestic common sense care to
fairness, and attainment of social professional service
equilibrium ● SOCIAL CARE - require no
● Aim to protect vulnerable people qualifications or license to do it
from abuse, neglect, or self-harm ○ Centers around practical,
● Help enhance their well-being and hands-on support.
quality of life ● SOCIAL WORK - qualified,
● Operate within legal frameworks for registered profession with a
protecting and supporting protected title
vulnerable people ○ Generally more detached in
○ Help individuals fit better dealing with its clients
into their environments ○ Involves more specialized,
(MICRO PRACTICE) problem-solving roles
○ Changing the environment so
that it works better for
individuals (MACRO CONTEXT & THE BASIC CONCEPTS
PRACTICE) OF SOCIAL WORK
● Interprofessional working - social ● Link social work to 2 movements
workers work closely with other which serve as the basic concept of
professionals the discipline
1. Charity Organization
DEFINITION: Societies - eliminate
● “Promotes social change, poverty from society
problem solving in human 2. Settlement Movement -
relationships and the helping individuals better fit
empowerment and liberation into their environment (by
of people to enhance advocating for better
well-being. Utilizing theories neighborhood services,
of human behavior and social public health programs, and
systems, social work employment conditions)
intervenes at the points where
people interact with their GOALS & SCOPE OF SOCIAL WORK
environments” (International ● DuBois & Miley (2008) highlight the
Federation of Social Work, 2013) following TENETS OF SOCIAL
● Profession that fulfills the social WORK:
welfare mandate to promote 1. Empower people,
well-being and the quality of life. individually and collectively,
to utilize their own
problem-solving and coping
capabilities more effectively
2. Support a proactive position
with regard to social and
 economic policy development PRINCIPLES OF SOCIAL WORK
to prevent problems for RESPECT FOR HUMAN RIGHTS
individuals and society from 1. Upholding and promoting human
occurring dignity and well-being
3. Uphold the integrity of the 2. Respecting the right to
profession in all aspects of self-determination
social work practice 3. Promoting the right to participation
4. Establish linkages between 4. Creating each person as a whole
people and societal resources 5. Identifying and developing strengths
to further social functioning RELATIVE TO SOCIAL JUSTICE
and enhance the quality of 1. Challenging discrimination
life 2. Recognizing diversity
5. Develop cooperative 3. Distributing resources
networks within the 4. Challenging unjust policies and
institutional system practices
6. Facilitate the responsiveness 5. Working in solidarity
of the institutional resources RELATIVE TO PROFESSIONAL
system to meet health and INTEGRITY
human services needs 1. Upholding the values and reputation
7. Promote social justice and of the profession
equality of all people with 2. Being trustworthy
regard to fill participation of 3. Maintaining professional boundaries
people in society 4. Making considered professional
8. Contribute to the judgements
development of knowledge 5. Being professionally accountable
for social work profession
through research and CORE VALUES OF SOCIAL WORK
evaluation A. Compassion - basis for someone to
9. Encourage exchange of go out and become a voice to the
information in those voiceless and a friend to the people
institutional systems in who need it the most.
which both problems and B. Service - their work borders on
resource opportunities are charity and professional service.
produced Without a special interest in pure
10. Enhance communication service, much of the social work
through an appreciation of could not be properly accomplished.
diversity and through C. Social Justice - basis for
ethically sensitive, non-sexist understanding of the need to ensure
social work practice that everyone gets serviced and that
11. Employ educational everyone gets a share of what the
strategies for the prevention community possess in material and
and resolution of problems non-material issues
12. Embrace a world view of D. Dignity and Worth of A Person
human issues and solutions - provides the determination and
to problems drive for social workers to seek the
 marginalized in all forms without 11. Research-scholars: in aid of
much regard as to whether such knowledge development and
problem is self-inflicted or socially capacity building
imposed. At the heart of social work
is the belief that all humans have The roles of social workers are
dignity and worth regardless of their grouped into three:
acts and status in life. 1. Case management
E. Importance of Human 2. Direct practice
Relationships - most human 3. Advocacy and policy building
situations they seek to address
require collaborating with so many FUNCTIONS OF SOCIAL WORK:
other professionals and individuals 1. Consultancy - refers to
with a stake in the issue. A professional activities through which
relationship is the context of social social workers and their clients plan,
marginalization and inclusion. initiate, and pursue actions toward
F. Integrity - Nothing can be desired change
accomplished without integrity. 2. Resource management - act of
G. Competence - Separates social coordinating, systemizing, and
caregiving from social work integrating resources and services
professional practices. needed to support social functioning,
meeting needs and resolving
ROLES OF SOCIAL WORK problems.
1. Enabler: families and individuals, 3. Education - provision of
help people find solutions knowledge and critical information
2. Broker or advocates: case necessary for empowerment practice
management
3. Teachers: information processing AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION OF
4. Facilitator: formal groups and SOCIAL WORK
organizations, in aid of 1. Family and child welfare
organizational development ● Physical or mental illness
5. Convenor or mediator: creating ● Unemployment
networks ● Divorce
6. Trainer: professional development ● Aid of improving client’s
7. Planner: community & society, family life
facilitating research and planning ● Adoption
8. Activist: social action, conduct ● Daycare
outreach in aid of community ● Foster care
education ● Care for children with
9. Colleague and monitor: aid or disabilities
professional enculturation and 2. Health
socialization ● Provide physicians with
10. Catalysts: community service information about the social
and economic background of
patients
 ● Help patients and their - Teachers
families deal with the impact
of illness and death The following guidelines for professional
● Provide counseling in conduct reflect the spirit of a code of ethics.
maternal and child care It consists of the ethical specifics in the
3. Mental health professional conduct of social workers
● Training in psychotherapy culled from the Code of Professional
● Treatment of mental or Conduct and Ethics for Social
emotional disorders using Workers devised by the Social
psychological methods Workers Registration Board at
4. Corrections CORU (2011) and the Ethics in Social
● Prevention of crime Work Statement of Principles by the
● Rehabilitation of criminals International Federation of Social
● Provide counsel to people Workers (2004).
who are on probation or
parole 1. Social workers are expected to uphold
5. Schools human rights in their practice.
● Services to students in 2. Social workers should respect the rights
special schools for and dignity of people
individuals with emotional 3. Social workers should respect the
disturbances or physical relationships of people who use their
disabilities services
● Vocational counseling 4. Social workers should promote social
● School adjustment justice
counseling 5. Social workers should comply with the
● Behavioral management and laws and regulations governing their
personal problems practice
6. Social workers should carry out their
Significance of diversity and cultural duties professionally and ethically.
competence in social work: 7. Social workers should demonstrate
I. Understand the importance of ethical awareness
diversity and cultural competence in 8. Social workers should demonstrate
social work practice. professional accountability
II. Familiarize yourself with strategies 9. Social workers should act in the best
for working effectively with diverse interest of people who use their services
populations. 10. Social workers should communicate with
III. Review concepts such as cultural people who use their services, careers and
humility and the impact of social professionals
identities on client experiences. 11. Social workers should seek informed
consent from people who use their services
CAREER OPPORTUNITIES: 12. Social workers should keep accurate
- Administrators records
- Supervisors 13. Social workers should deal appropriately
- Planners with health and safety risks
- Researchers
14. Social workers should willingly -
People existing with similar
collaborate, delegate and manage or common identity
appropriately - LGBTQIA+, women, the
15. Social workers should undertake abused, neglected children,
research ethically military service, people in
16. Social workers should maintain high conflict with the law,
standards of personal conduct unemployed, people
17. Social workers should act with integrity struggling with addiction,
18. Social workers should provide accurate - Members of an organization
information about their conduct and or place of employment
competence - Pupils in a schools setup
19. Social workers should treat information C. COMMUNITY
about people who use their services as - Community may exist as a
confidential except in situations that call for marginalized sector
greater ethical requirements such as the - Gear towards emancipation
preservation of life and empowerment
20. Social workers should act within the - Imposing general norms that
limits of their professional knowledge, skills seek to marginalize
and experience. minorities
21. Social workers should keep their - Community transformation
professional knowledge and skills up to date - Environmental change
so that they can provide appropriate
services SETTINGS OF SOCIAL WORK
I. GOVERNMENT SETTING
NEEDS OF VARIOUS TYPES OF ● Social policy formulation and
CLIENTELE analysis
● wanting to be empowered ● Advocacy
● Socially included by way of insuring ● Implementation to enhance
that one receives what is legally due the well-being of societal
him or her members
● Receive the necessary care they ● Providing social services
deserve through appropriate
● Rights respected government department and
● Justice agencies
● Social welfare ● Foster care agencies,
health-care settings,
A. INDIVIDUAL community-based clinics,
- Fit in a larger environment schools, correctional
- someone who was deprived facilities, nursing homes,
of space by the larger military veteran agencies
environment
- Calling for change
- Or calling for an ability to
cope with it II. PRIVATE SECTOR
B. GROUP OR ORGANIZATION ● Corporate setting
 ● Employee assistance ● MACRO PRACTICE:
programs changing the larger
● Labor union social services environment in ways that
● Human resource benefit individuals, families,
III. CIVIL SOCIETY SETTING and groups
● Advocacies for human rights
and social justice CONDUCTING NEEDS ASSESSMENT
● Civil society sees itself as a ● Done through INTERVIEWS,
champion of the people with OBSERVATION, AND
regard to ensuring SURVEYS
accountability in government ○ Result becomes the basis for
services PLANNING &
● Children, women, IDENTIFYING THE
LGBTQIA+, migrants, cancer KINDS OF SOCIAL
patients, elderly WORK NEEDED, THE
IV. SCHOOL SETTING PROCESSES, METHODS,
● Facilitate school entry in to TOOLS
the community ○ Ends in the planning
● Understanding the phase > implementation
community > post-implementation
● Liaison between the school phase
and students’ families
● Crisscross with the functions MONITORING AND EVALUATING
of the guidance counselor ● Implementation is accompanied by
● Formulation and detailed documentation
implementation of behavioral (monitoring)
intervention programs ● A comprehensive examination of the
● Sexual education programs impacts and influence if the service
● Health education programs is done to determine the
● Crisis intervention EFFICACY AND EFFECTIVITY
● Disaster prevention and OF THE PROGRAM and make
management INFORMED DECISIONS of
V. COMMUNITY SETTING what to do next about the
● Represents all kinds of social program
work services ○ EVALUATION
● Racism, sexism, ableism,
homophobia, anti-semitism,
islamophobia
● MICRO PRACTICE: target
services to help individuals,
families, and small groups to
function better in the larger
environment