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Clientele and Audiences in Social Work SEMIS DIASS

This document provides an overview of clientele and audiences in social work. It discusses that social workers serve a variety of populations including children, families, older adults, those with disabilities or illnesses. Social workers work in settings like hospitals, schools, government agencies, and private practices to provide services like counseling, connecting clients to resources, and advocating for clients. The document also outlines different types of social work like clinical social work, group work, and community social work.

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Clientele and Audiences in Social Work SEMIS DIASS

This document provides an overview of clientele and audiences in social work. It discusses that social workers serve a variety of populations including children, families, older adults, those with disabilities or illnesses. Social workers work in settings like hospitals, schools, government agencies, and private practices to provide services like counseling, connecting clients to resources, and advocating for clients. The document also outlines different types of social work like clinical social work, group work, and community social work.

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Clientele and Audiences in

Social Work
TOPIC OUTLINE
1. What Does a Social Worker Do?
2. Social Worker Job Description
3. Top 10 Reasons to Pursue a Career in Social Work
4. People They Serve
5. Where They Work
TOPIC OUTLINE
Types of Community
a. Child, family and school social workers work with children and families
b. Medical social workers
c. Mental health and substance abuse social workers
d. Military social workers
e. Community social workers
f. Social work administrators, researchers, planners and policymakers
TOPIC OUTLINE
Types of clients
a. Clinical social work
b. Group work
c. Social work with communities

Principles in community work


What Does a Social Worker Do?

• Many social workers provide clinical and case


management services directly to individuals, couples,
families, and groups.

• Social workers serve clients dealing with a range of


challenges including poverty, physical and mental health
issues, addiction, and family problems.
What Does a Social Worker Do?

• They may provide clinical services, such as therapy or


counseling, and connect people to resources in the
community to help them overcome challenges.

• Most social workers believe that everyone is impacted by


their environment. This person-in-environment perspective
informs many areas of social work.
What Does a Social Worker Do?

• Some social workers do not work directly with individual


clients. Instead, they work in community organizations,
government, and advocacy groups to alleviate poverty
and social injustice on a big-picture level.

• These social work careers include legislative advocacy,


policy analysis, and community organizing to break down
barriers and drive reform.
What Does a Social Worker Do?

• Many social workers’ careers include both individual client-


centered work and big picture work. Whether professionals
choose a career as a school social worker, child social
worker, medical social worker, or another social work path,
their work will likely involve individual services for people in
need of support along with program development and
advocacy to improve the institutions, systems, and policies
impacting their client population.
Social Worker Job Description

• Identify people who need help, such as vulnerable


children and older adults, those struggling with mental
illness or addiction, and families living in poverty.

• Assess clients’ needs, strengths, and goals, and develop a


plan to support individuals and families as they work
toward their goals
Social Worker Job Description

• Counsel people to manage challenges in their lives such as


illness, loss, unemployment, and family problems,
providing connections with community resources
addressing such challenges.

• Assist individuals and families in meeting basic needs by


connecting them to food assistance resources, child care,
and healthcare.
Social Worker Job Description

• Help clients navigate government assistance and benefits


programs such as Medicaid, Social Security Disability Insurance,
and food assistance programs.

• Respond to crisis situations such as mental health crises and


spousal or child abuse reports.

• Advocate for access to resources needed to improve


people’s lives
Top 10 Reasons to Pursue a Career in Social Work

• You like working with people. Social workers are almost


always interested in helping people, either individually or
on a big picture level.

• You or a loved one have been helped by a social worker


in the past, so you became interested in their work.
Top 10 Reasons to Pursue a Career in Social Work

• You or a loved one have experienced a hardship such as


addiction or abuse and you would like to help others
overcome similar challenges

• You have an interest in a field commonly addressed by


social workers such as poverty, mental health, or
community organizing
Top 10 Reasons to Pursue a Career in Social Work

• You would like to work in a certain environment, such as a


hospital or a school, but you are more interested in
providing clinical or case management services than
healthcare or education

• You have a strong interest in working with a certain


population such as children, the mentally ill, or older
adults.
Top 10 Reasons to Pursue a Career in Social Work

• You enjoy volunteer work and making a difference and


are interested in extending your passion into a career in
non-profit management, program development, or direct
social service

• You enjoy working in a fast-paced environment addressing


crisis situations while managing a large number of tasksces.
Top 10 Reasons to Pursue a Career in Social Work

• You are interested in a flexible career in an ever-changing


field allowing you to work in different settings, each with
their own goals and challenges, but with a shared purpose
of serving the common good.

• You want to have a career focused on helping people and


making the world a better place.
People They Serve

• Most social workers spend their days working with


people. The type of work social workers do varies based
on the groups of people they serve.

Children Older adults People with disabilities


Patients with chronic, acute or terminal diagnoses People
coping with grief or loss People with mental illnesses
People struggling with addiction
Where They Work

• Most social workers work in an office setting, though


many spend a large portion of their time visiting clients in
their homes, schools, and in the community.
Where They Work

• Hospitals, medical clinics, and nursing homes


• Community mental health agencies and substance misuse clinics
• State and local governments including child welfare agencies and
departments of health and human services
• Schools and other youth-serving organizations
• Military bases and veterans affairs clinics
• Correctional facilities
• Private practices
Types of Community

• Child, family and school social workers work with children


and families who are struggling with social and
psychological issues at school, in the home or in their
communities.

• Medical social workers assist individuals and families who


are dealing with an illness or health-related issue.
Types of Community

• Mental health and substance abuse social workers work


with individuals, groups, families and couples to provide
treatment for mental illness and substance abuse.

• Military social workers help service members and their


families with the challenges of military life. This may
include treating veterans for post-traumatic stress, helping
a family cope with a loved one’s deployment and coping
with injuries related to the service.
Types of Community

• Community social workers improve conditions and


provide resources for particular communities. A
community social worker will often focus on community
organization and development, planning, administration
and social action to improve conditions within their
communities.
Types of Community

• Social work administrators, researchers, planners and


policymakers belong to another group of social workers.
They often hold administrative roles and do not work
directly with the individuals or groups they are aiming to
help. They may lead a team of social workers, conduct
research, draft policy, raise funds or write grants.
Types of clients

(1) Clinical social work - a method of practice employed by


thousands of social workers in a wide variety of social
services, institutional settings, and private practice.
Types of clients

(2) Group work - a method of working with people in groups


for:

Skill development
Personal growth through insight
Enhancement of social functioning
Achievement of socially desirable goals
Accomplishment of tasks
Types of clients

(3) Social work with communities - goes into the micro level of
the social system. It is the professional application of social
work theory and methods to the treatment and prevention of:

Psychosocial dysfunction
Disability or impairment
Emotional and mental disorders
Principles in community work

• Practices the goal of enhancement and maintenance of


psychosocial functioning of individuals, families, and small
groups
Social work with groups

1.Community organization for social welfare focuses on


the need of people.

Objective: bring about a positive interaction between


social welfare needs in the community and available
resources. A method of reducing or eliminating roadblocks
to social interaction and for accomplishing socially
desirable purposes.
Clientele and Audiences in Social Work

A method used by social workers is called GROUP WORK


SOCIAL WORK WITH INDIVIDUALS the approach
intended for individuals is clinical social work or direct
practice Clinical Social Work
References
• https://www.socialworkguide.org/careers/
• https://socialworklicensemap.com/become-a-social-
worker/social-worker-careers/
• https://prezi.com/jvn5a3mdy_wl/clientelle-and-audiences-
in-social-work/

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