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Social Work - A Practice Based Profession

Social work is a practice-based profession that promotes social change, social justice, and empowerment. The purpose of social work is to promote human and community well-being by helping individuals, families, groups, organizations, and communities. Social workers restore or enhance people's ability to function optimally in society and create supportive social conditions. They use methods like casework, group work, community organization, administration, research, and social action. Social workers display characteristics like warmth, honesty, empathy, and concern as they fulfill roles like enabler, educator, advocate, and coordinator across fields like health, youth services, and community development.

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Social Work - A Practice Based Profession

Social work is a practice-based profession that promotes social change, social justice, and empowerment. The purpose of social work is to promote human and community well-being by helping individuals, families, groups, organizations, and communities. Social workers restore or enhance people's ability to function optimally in society and create supportive social conditions. They use methods like casework, group work, community organization, administration, research, and social action. Social workers display characteristics like warmth, honesty, empathy, and concern as they fulfill roles like enabler, educator, advocate, and coordinator across fields like health, youth services, and community development.

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Social Work

A Practice-based Profession
Social Work as a profession

 “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. Principles
of social justice, human rights, collective responsibility
and respect for diversities are central to social work.”
IFSW, 2014.
Purpose

The purpose of the social work profession is to “promote human


and community wellbeing” (EPAS, 2008, p. 1).
Social work is a helping and practice based profession where a
professional social worker helps:
 Individuals
 Families
 Groups
 Organizations
 Communities
Another purpose of professional social work is to restore or
enhance the capacity of the people in need for optimal social
functioning and to create social conditions that support this goal.
Objectives

 To enhance people’s capacities to resolve problems.


 Linking clients with needed resources
 Improve the service delivery network
 Promote social justice through the development of social
policy
Methods of Social Work Practice

 Social Casework
 Social Group Work
 Community Organisation
 Social Welfare Administration
 Social Work Research
 Social Action
Characteristics of
Professional Social worker

 Warmth
 Honesty
 Genuineness
 Empathy
 Openness
 Courage
 Hopefulness
 Humility
 Concern
 Sensitivity.
Roles and Functions

Social work professionals work in many settings with


diverse people who have-
 Problems
 Issues
 Needs

They do the following activities:


 Intervene between the state and the citizen
 Maximize the capacity of people
 Contribute to policies and practice
A social worker is expected to have the knowledge and
skills that will enable him/her to take appropriate action
and play a variety of roles few of them are as listed below:
 Enabler-helps a client become capable of coping with
situations
 Educator- gives information to clients and other systems
 Advocate -taking a course of action on behalf of client
 Coordinator-brings together various parts to form a
unified whole.
 Mediator -involves resolving arguments or conflicts at
micro, mezzo, or macro systems
 Analyst/Evaluator-Social workers with a broad
knowledge base of how various systems function can
analyze or evaluate how well programs and systems work.
 Broker /Advocate- Acts as intermediary between
individuals and resources
 Planner - Coordinates program and policy development
 Activist - Stimulates and energizes social change
 Trainer- Instructs or educates through staff development
(skills development)
 Colleague- Acts as mentor and guide for support and
professional acculturation
 Outreach Worker- Conveys public information about
social issues and social services
 Research/ Scholar- Engages in discovery for knowledge
development
Core Values in Social Work

 Service
 Social Justice
 Dignity & Worth of the Person
 Importance of Human Relationships
 Integrity
 Competence
Basic Concepts

 Social Welfare- It is an organized system of social services


and institutions, designed to aid individuals and groups, to
attain satisfying standards of life and health.
 Social Justice- It refers to the creation of social institutions
that support the welfare of individuals and groups.
 Social Development- It is a comprehensive concept which
implies major structural changes- political, economic,
cultural which are deliberate action to transform the society.
 Social Capital- It is the network of relationships among the
people who live and work in a particular society, enabling
that the society to function effectively.
Basic Concepts

Social Policy- It is a comprehensive set of policies


designed to improve the quality of life in the society.,
nature of relationship etc.
Advocacy- It involves "the act of directly representing
a course of action on behalf of one or more individuals,
groups, or communities, with the goal of securing or
retaining social justice (Mickelson, 1995, p.95)
Empowerment- It is the “process of increasing
personal, interpersonal, or political power so that
individual can take action to improve their situations”
(Gutierrez, 1994)
Fields of social work practice

 Family welfare  Information & referral


 Youth welfare  Child welfare
 Health and rehabilitation  Women welfare
 Occupational social work  Aging services
 Housing  Mental health
 Community development  School social work
 Income maintenance
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