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2. WHAT COMES TO YOUR MIND
WHEN YOU HEAR THE PHRASE
“SOCIAL WORK”?

3. SOCIAL WORK
LOCAL DEFINITION:
SOCIAL WORK IS AN ACADEMIC AND PROFESSIONAL
DISCIPLINE THAT SEEKS TO FACILITATE THE
WELFARE OF COMMUNITIES, INDIVIDUALS, AND
SOCIETIES. IT FACILITATES SOCIAL CHANGE,
DEVELOPMENT, COHESION, AND EMPOWERMENT.

4. SOCIAL WORK
GLOBAL DEFINITION:
SOCIAL WORK IS A PRACTICE-BASED PROFESSION
AND AN ACADEMIC DISCIPLINE THAT PROMOTES
SOCIAL CHANGE AND DEVELOPMENT, SOCIAL
COHESION, AND THE EMPOWERMENT AND
LIBERATION OF PEOPLE.

5. GOALS OF SOCIAL WORK
There are five (5) goals of social work. They are presented sequentially, as follows:
1. To prepare practitioners who engage in evidence-based beginning level generalist practice with systems of all
sizes and diverse populations.
2. To prepare practitioners who understand and value human diversity.
3. To prepare practitioners who understand and appreciate the role and value of systematic data collection and
analysis in systems of all sizes for the purpose of promoting the goals of the profession of social work.
4. To encourage the development of a strong professional identity and a commitment to the values and ethics of
the social work profession in future practitioners.
5. To prepare students to understand the dynamics and consequences of social and economic injustice and the
importance of alleviating injustice and oppression.

6. SCOPE OF SOCIAL WORK
1. Child development 2. Medical Social
Work
3. Clinical Social Work 4. Social Work
Administration and
Management
 Right to education
 Right against
exploitation
 Right to
rehabilitation
 Right to speech and
expression
The medical social
workers provide
assistance to the
patients and their family
who are coping with
many problems.
The clinical social
worker provides a full
range of mental health
services including
assessment, diagnosis
and treatment.
 Budget Management
 Monitoring and
evaluation of public
and social policy
 Co-ordinate
activities to achieve
the agencies goal
 Staff co-ordination

7. SCOPE OF SOCIAL WORK
5. International Social Work 6. Social Work in an Acute
Psychiatric Hospital
7. Social Worker as a
Community Organizer
Other scopes of social work
are:
 Counsel and aid refugees to
ensure a smooth transition
into a new environment.
 Facilitate international
adoption
 Provide disaster relief in
time of crisis
 Counsel families to find
better solution to their
problems. Remove children
from abusive situation and
place it to care homes
 Complete intake
 Psycho-social
assessment
 Provide patient and
family education and
support
 Provide individual
treatment family and
group therapy
 Provide discharge and
after planning.
 Assist the community in
defining a school problem
 Provide direction and
guidance to the community
in order to mobilize and
identified cause by case
work, group work and
community organization
 Assist in establishing new
programs to meet the
needs of individuals,
groups and families.
 Addiction Treatment
 Child abuse, adoption and
welfare
 Criminal justice
 Crisis intervention
 Development disabilities
 Disaster relief
 Domestic Relief
 Domestic violence
 HIV/AIDS
 Military Social Work
 Political development
 Rural development
 Industrial development
 Women welfare

8. PRINCIPLES OF SOCIAL WORK
The Policy Ethics, and Human Rights Committee of the British Association of Social Workers (2012)
has principles that apply in general to other professionals in the social work profession.
Principles Relative to Respect for Human
Rights
1. Upholding and promoting human dignity
and well-being.
2. Respecting the right to self-determination.
3. Promoting the right to participation.
4. Creating each person as a whole.
5. Identifying and developing strengths.
Principles Relative to Social Justice
1. Challenging discrimination.
2. Recognizing diversity.
3. Distributing resources.
4. Challenging unjust policies and practices.
5. Working in solidarity.

9. PRINCIPLES OF SOCIAL WORK
The Policy Ethics, and Human Rights Committee of the British Association of Social Workers (2012)
has principles that apply in general to other professionals in the social work profession.
Principles Relative to Professional Integrity
1. Upholding the values and reputation of the profession.
2. Being trustworthy.
3. Maintaining professional boundaries.
4. Making considered professional judgments.
5. Being professionally accountable.

10. CORE VALUE OF SOCIAL WORK
The core values of social work serve to provide consistency in the fulfillment of the social welfare delivery
and in the general promotion of well-being and quality of life of all people.
2. Service. It directs social workers to go beyond purely
performing a service for a pay and allow them to be
generous with their time.
1. Compassion. This can be considered as an important
value for all humankind but 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.
3. Social Justice. It 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 material
and non-material assets.
4. Dignity and worth of the person. It 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 in self-inflicted or socially
imposed.

11. CORE VALUE OF SOCIAL WORK
5. Importance of human relationships. It makes it
possible for social workers to do their job as most
human situations they seek to address require
collaborating with so many other professionals and
individuals with a stake in the issue.
6. Integrity. It is necessary in all human endeavors. In social work,
nothing can be accomplished without integrity. A social worker will
have difficulties to be accepted by the people to receive services and
by those he/she needs to collaborate with to facilitate problem
solving and empowerment of an individual or a group.
7. Competence. It is a very important value for social
work professional practice. Through special training, a
social worker becomes separated from all common
sense, culture, and religious-based care.

12. ROLES OF SOCIAL WORK
The social worker is involved in the
process of making referrals to the
family or person to needed resources.
Social work professionals do not
simply provide information. They also
follow up to be sure the needed
resources are attained. This requires
knowing resources, eligibility
requirements, fees, and the location of
the services.
AS A BROKER
In this role, social workers fight
for the rights of others and work
to obtain needed resources by
convincing others of the
legitimate needs and rights of
members of the society.
AS AN ADVOCATE

13. ROLES OF SOCIAL WORK
They are involved in locating services
and assisting their clients to access
those services. Case management is
especially important for complex
situations and for those who are
homeless or elderly, have chronic
physical or mental health issues, are
disabled, victims of domestic or other
violent crimes, or are vulnerable
children.
AS A CASE MANAGER
Social workers are often involved in
teaching people about resources and
how to develop particular skills such as
budgeting, the caring discipline of
children, effective communication, the
meaning of a medical diagnosis, and
the prevention of violence.
AS AN EDUCATOR

14. ROLES OF SOCIAL WORK
In this role, social workers are involved
in gathering groups of people together
for a variety of purposes including
community development, self
advocacy, political organization, and
policy change.
AS A FACILITATOR
Social workers are involved in many
levels of community organization and
action including economic
development, union organization, and
research and policy specialists.
AS AN EDUCATOR

15. ROLES OF SOCIAL WORK
Because of their expertise in a whole
variety of applications, are well suited
to work as managers and supervisors in
almost any setting.
They are better able to influence policy
change and/or development, and to
advocate, on a larger scale, for all
underprivileged people.
AS A MANAGER

16. CORE FUNCTIONS OF SOCIAL WORK
ENGAGEMENT
“The social worker must first engage the client in
early meeting to promote a collaborative
relationship.”
ASSESSMENT
“Data must be gathered that will guide and direct
a plan of action help the client.”

17. CORE FUNCTIONS OF SOCIAL WORK
PLANNING
“Negotiate and formulate an action plan.”
IMPLEMENTATION
“Promote resource acquisition and enhance role
performance.”

18. CORE FUNCTIONS OF SOCIAL WORK
MONITOR/EVALUATION
“On-going documentation through short-term
goal attainment of extent to which client is
following through.”
SUPPORTIVE COUNSELING
“Affirming, challenging, encouraging, informaing,
and exploring options.”

19. CORE FUNCTIONS OF SOCIAL WORK
GRADUATED DISENGAGEMENT
“Seeking to replace the social worker with a
naturally occurring resource.”

20. CLIENTS OF SOCIAL WORK

30. REFERENCES
Book: Sampa, Elias M.,
Discipline and Ideas in the Applied Social Sciences (First Edition). REX Book Store Inc., 2017.
Ariola, Mariano M., LL.B.;Ed.D.; L.P.T
Discipline and Ideas in the Applied Social Sciences. UNLIMITED BOOKS LIBRARY
SERVICES & PUBLISHING INC., 2017.
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