Social work focuses on helping individuals overcome personal and social problems through understanding human development and social interactions. Social workers work in schools, family services, government agencies, hospitals, health/community organizations, and correctional institutions. The goals of social work are advocating for social change, strengthening personal/social functioning, linking people to social systems, and empowering individuals and communities. Fields of social work include adoption services, foster care, residential care, family services, income maintenance, corrections, healthcare, schools, and long-term care facilities. The major fields are family/child welfare, health, mental health, corrections, and schools.
Social work focuses on helping individuals overcome personal and social problems through understanding human development and social interactions. Social workers work in schools, family services, government agencies, hospitals, health/community organizations, and correctional institutions. The goals of social work are advocating for social change, strengthening personal/social functioning, linking people to social systems, and empowering individuals and communities. Fields of social work include adoption services, foster care, residential care, family services, income maintenance, corrections, healthcare, schools, and long-term care facilities. The major fields are family/child welfare, health, mental health, corrections, and schools.
Social work focuses on helping individuals overcome personal and social problems through understanding human development and social interactions. Social workers work in schools, family services, government agencies, hospitals, health/community organizations, and correctional institutions. The goals of social work are advocating for social change, strengthening personal/social functioning, linking people to social systems, and empowering individuals and communities. Fields of social work include adoption services, foster care, residential care, family services, income maintenance, corrections, healthcare, schools, and long-term care facilities. The major fields are family/child welfare, health, mental health, corrections, and schools.
Social work focuses on helping individuals overcome personal and social problems through understanding human development and social interactions. Social workers work in schools, family services, government agencies, hospitals, health/community organizations, and correctional institutions. The goals of social work are advocating for social change, strengthening personal/social functioning, linking people to social systems, and empowering individuals and communities. Fields of social work include adoption services, foster care, residential care, family services, income maintenance, corrections, healthcare, schools, and long-term care facilities. The major fields are family/child welfare, health, mental health, corrections, and schools.
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SOCIAL WORK
- It focuses on aiding and helping individual in overcoming personal, individual, and
social problems. - Is a practice-based profession that promotes social change, development, cohesion and the empowerment of people and communities. - Social work involves the understanding of human development, behavior and social, economic and cultural institutions and interactions.
EFA
- Education For All
WHERE DO SOCIAL WORKERS WORK?
- Schools – offers counseling and support to parents.
- Family Service Agencies – They promote and protect family rights and they provide guidance and resources to different families. - Government Agencies – Child welfare and public assistance. - Hospital and Mental Health Facilities – Provide therapy and different treatments. - Health and Community – Provide treatment and free medicines. - Correctional Institutions – Provide counseling and assistance to inmates. - Child Protection Agencies – Focuses on child protections as well as foster home or adaption.
GOALS OF SOCIAL WORK – According to Morales and Sheafor (1983)
1. Social workers are advocate for social change. (Social Injustices – law, social stratification) 2. Strengthening personal and social functioning. (Personal skills and abilities) 3. Linking people with systems (Social Systems) 4. Empowering individuals and communities. (Concept of self-determination)
SCOPE OF SOCIAL WORK – According to Lishman, et. al., 2004
1. Child Development 2. Medical Social Work 3. Administrative and Management 4. Local Social Work 5. International Social Work 6. Social Work in acute Psychiatric Hospital 7. Social Work as community organizer FIELDS INCLUDED IN SOCIAL WORK – According to Morales and Sheafor (1983)
Difficult decision to keep the baby or place it for adaption. Applies both individual and group counseling to assist women in making decisions. Co-habiting – unmarried but have family. B. Foster Care Removing children from homes and placing them to foster homes temporarily. Works with the parent, child, and court to administer court decisions to remove a child due to detrimental situations. Foster Parents – adopt or care temporarily. C. Residential Care Group care home or residential treatment curer. 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 consultation, client with institutions such as day care centers and home maker services. Marginal Sectors – NPA, living in mountains, families who have a lot of children. 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 – Educate the parents from using contraceptive to prevent more babies. G. Income Maintenance Public assistance – financial aid to the poor. It includes general assistance such as hospital and medical care and supplemental security income. Other forms – cash in kind benefits, emergency support funds, and other resources. 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. Serve as basis for development. C. Medical and Health Care Attend to the social and psychological factors contributing to the medical condition of the patients. D. Schools Organize parent and community groups to channel concerns. Develop and maintain liason between the school and social work. Provide leadership in coordination of student services in guidance, clinic staff, psychologists and attendance.
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 home care services. B. Support for people in the long term care facilities Refers to nursing homes or other group living facilities.
5 MAJOR FIELDS OF SOCIAL WORK
A. Family and Child Welfare – help children that experience abuses. Help family rights. B. Health – Helps assistance and treatments to patience. Provide legal advice. C. Mental – Provide therapy and counseling. Depression, anxiety, schizophrenia. D. Correction – Provides counseling and legal advice to inmates and rehabilitation. E. School – To provide support and guidance. Counseling to students who experience learning difficulty.
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