1 Discipline that the Social Workers must havepptx

This is about the discipline of the social workers

1. Good afternoon!

2. Activity: PROFESSIO-KNOW! Instructions: Look at the pictures and answer the questions.

3. Activity: PROFESSIO-KNOW! Instructions: Look at the pictures and answer the questions.

4. Activity: PROFESSIO-KNOW! Instructions: Look at the pictures and answer the questions.

5. 1.What can you say about the picture? 2.What profession focused on showing care and helping other people?

6. OBJECTIVES At the end of the lesson, the students are expected to: a.Identify the goals and scope of social work; b.Demonstrate understanding goals and scope of social work ; c.Appreciate the importance of goal and scope of social work.

7. Goals and Scope of Social Work

8. DEFINITION OF SOCIAL WORK  The National association of Social Workers (NASW) in the US defined social work as the professional activity of helping individuals, groups or communities enhance or restore their capacity for social functioning and creating societal conditions favorable to the goal.

9. DEFINITION OF SOCIAL WORK  * United Nations of Economic,Social and CulturalOrganization (UNESCO) considers social work as a field within human services of the government . It considers social work as an important service to the society focusing n individuals and families in need of help.

10. GOALS OF SOCIAL WORK * The principal mission of social work profession is to develop human beings and assists other institutions in attaining the basic human needs of the people and in empowering the lost, the least, and the last. * Catalyzing the mission of social work profession are the goals of social work namely: caring, curing and changing.

11. GOALS OF SOCIAL WORK 1. The Goal on Caring • The need for the caring function increases and it is realized that in the field of social work the curative function is inadequate in our goal to improve the situation of people in need.

12. GOALS OF SOCIAL WORK 2. The Goal on Curing Curing refers to the aspect of t reating people with problems in social functioning. * This covers a range of aiding techniques for individuals, families, and groups. * Techniques composed of: popular counseling approaches comprising of transactional analysis, family therapy, behavior modification, reality therapy, and gestalt therapy ; and

13. 1. Transactional analysis is a psychoanalytic theory and method of therapy wherein social interactions (or "transactions") are analyzed to determine the ego state of the communicator (whether parent-like, childlike, or adult-like) as a basis for understanding behavior.[1] In transactional analysis, the communicator is taught to alter the ego state as a way to solve emotional problems.

14. 2. Family therapy is a form of talk therapy that focuses on the improvement of relationships among family members. It can also help treat specific mental health or behavioral conditions, such as substance use disorder or oppositional defiant disorder.

15. 3. Behavior modification is a therapeutic approach based on the principles of behaviorism. It focuses on changing maladaptive behaviors through reinforcement and punishment techniques.

16. 4. Reality therapy is a client-centered form of cognitive-behavioral therapy that focuses on improving present relationships and circumstances, with less concern and discussion of past events.

17. 5. Gestalt therapy is an approach to psychotherapy that helps clients focus on the present to understand what is actually happening in their lives at this moment, and how it makes them feel in the moment, rather than what they may assume to be happening based on past experience.

18. * Unpopular approaches such as Rolfing therapy, psychomotor therapy, and psychodrama.

19. 1. Rolfing therapy is a safe and effective therapy for individuals of all ages, including children. It involves manipulating superficial tissue to enhance movement education and improve mobility. Children with conditions like cerebral palsy can experience increased body awareness and ease of movement.

20. 2. PMT (psychomotor therapy) focuses on body signals such as tension, breathing, body sensations and posture. Through body and movement-oriented methods, you reflect on (the origin of) feelings, thoughts and behaviour and how they affect your life.

21. 3. Psychodrama is an action method, often used as a psychotherapy, in which clients use spontaneous dramatization, role playing, and dramatic self-presentation to investigate and gain insight into their lives.

22. GOALS OF SOCIAL WORK 2. The Goal on Curing * The techniques are the individual-focused approaches which may not automatically provide an effective method of helping clients towards social functioning. * It is necessary to f acilitate the participation of the clients in the helping process and create an appropriate environment for them.

23. GOALS OF SOCIAL WORK 3. The Goal on Changing * Changing refers to the active participation of the social workers in social reforms. * This goals comes from a perspective that there is a persistence of poverty, environmental destruction, and social disintegration. * It recognizes that the political, economic, and social structures add in the worsening of social conditions.

24. GOALS OF SOCIAL WORK * This reality puts the poor and the needy in a more challenging situation which consequently becomes a critical concern of social institutions and the social work profession. * It is therefore vital for the social workers to be aware and be actively vigilant in identifying structures that exacerbate the situation and deepen social destruction.

25. GOALS OF SOCIAL WORK * Social reforms are necessary to improve the social services and the quality of life of those in need. * This is one of the significant goals because it contributes in the struggle to pursue a lasting social change.

26. SCOPE OF SOCIAL WORK

27. * The scope of social work includes child development, medical social work, clinical social work, administrative and management, social work, international social work, social work in acute psychiatric hospital, and social work as community organizer.

28. SCOPE OF SOCIAL WORK Morales and Sheafor (1983) identified and described the fields included in the area of social work, which are as follows: 1. Social Work as a Primary Discipline 2. Social Work as an Equal Partner 3. Social Work as Secondary Discipline

29. 1.Social Work as a Primary Discipline • In terms of child welfare, social works offer adoption and services to u nmarried parents, foster care, residential care support in own home, and protective services.

30. The adoption and services to unmarried parents is about facilitating the difficult decision of unmarried parents whether to keep the baby or place the child for adoption. In this process, social workers apply both individual and group counseling to assist women in their sensitive decision making process.

31. ● The foster care is about removing the children from their homes and placing them temporarily in a foster care. The process includes working with parents, the child and the courts to acquire a decision to remove a child from his/her own home due to detrimental situations and bringing her/him to a foster home placement. It also involves counseling with the child and parents.

32. ● The residential care is a group care home or a residential treatment center for a child. These centers are for children exhibiting anti-social behaviors or behaviors that require intensive treatment. Social workers are involved in sustaining a helpful connection between the child and the family and in preparing plans for the return of the child to his/her home.

33. ● The support in own home involves providing support services in order to keep children in their own homes. Support services may be in the form of counseling, family consultations, and connecting clients with appropriate institutions such as day care centers and home maker services.

34. ● The protective services are about protecting the child from c hild abuse, maltreatment, and exploitation by one or both parents. The social worker seeks to protect child without infringing on the rights of the parents.

35. Upon receipt of referral, there is an assessment on the situation of the child: 1.Is the child in danger? 2.Do the parents have the capacity to resolve the problem? 3.What are the risks involve? 4. The process may involve individual or family counseling, provision of support services, and education.

36. In terms of family services, social work offers f amily counseling, family life education, and family planning.

37. a. Family counseling is about employing the three approaches which comprise of family case work , which involves helping individual members of the family modify their behavior to make them more effective contributors in the family; family group work, which is about the process by which the family examines its relationships and resolves their problem with the help of the social worker; and lastly, family therapy , which focuses on transforming the structure of the family to make it more supportive to its members.

38. b. Family life education is an intervention to strengthen the family through educational activities that seek to prevent family breakdown. Its goal is to understand and anticipate the normal patterns and stresses of the family and community living toward improvement of interpersonal relationships and prevention or reduction of situational crises.

39. Social Work as a Primary Discipline c. Family planning refers to assisting the families plan the number, spacing and timing of the births of children to fit with their needs. The social workers help the family to make decisions about their pattern of reproduction toward • In terms of income maintenance, social work offers public assistance,social insurances, and other income maintenance programs.

40. * Public assistance refers to the provision of financial aid to the poor. Social workers support the development of adequate income maintenance programs and efforts to provide needed services. Services include cash grants, general assistance such as hospital and medical care, and supplemental security income.

41. * Social insurances are social provisions that re funded by employers and employees through contributions to a specific program. The other income maintenance programs include cash in kind benefits, emergency support funds, and other resources which can be used by the poor for food and shelter.

42. 2. Social Work as an Equal Partner • In terms of aging , social works offers support for people in their own homes and support for people in long-term care facilities. The support for people in their own homes programs consists of helping older people remain in their own homes by linking them with community programs that bring h ealth care, meals, and home care services in to their home. * The support for people in long-term care facilities program refers to nursing homes or other group living facilities.

43. • In terms of community services, social work offers community organization,community planning, andcommunity development

44. * Community organization activities involve the gathering and analysis of data of population distribution, securing funds, matching that information with data of population distribution, securing funds to maintain and enhance the quality of services, coordinating the efforts to existing agencies, and educating the general public about these services.

45. * Community planning refers to the involvement of social workers with the physical, economic, and health lanners in the long-range planning of communities. * Community development is about the participation of social workers in providing aid to the people in the communities as the aim to enhance their conditions.

46. * In terms of youth and group services, social work offers recreational and educational facilities such as YMCA and scouting and settlement houses. Other activities such as crafts, sports, camping, friendship groups, drama, music, informal counseling, and other groups of participation are also provided for.

47. * In terms of mental health and retardation, social work refers to (a) initially, the institutionalizing of the victims through individual treatment hospitals; (b) due to the influence of the family and community in the improvement of the patient, the movement to deinstitutionalize by bringing them to foster homes and residential care came into fruition.

48. 3. Social work as Secondary Discipline * Social workers are also present in the correctional facilities. They provide counseling and serve as link to the outside world, comprising of the family, potential employers, and the community service network that will provide support upon release.

49. * In terms of industry , social workers act as a support to both the managers and the employees of the companies . They make themselves available to the employees with social problems for individual, family, and group counseling. They also provide information to the managers as basis for management

50. * In terms of medical and healthcare , social workers attend to the social and psychological factors that are contributing to the medical conditions of the patients.They also link patients with community resources, provide necessary counseling, and link with self-help groups.

51. * In terms of schools, Lela Costin has identified seven (7) primary tasks of social workers in schools: 1. Facilitate the supervision of direct educational and social services and provide direct social case work or group work services to selected students; 2. Acts as a pupil advocate, focusing on urgent need of the selected group of students; 3. Consult with school administrators major problems toward which a nlanned service annnach will he aimed

52. 4.Consult with teachers about techniques for creating a climate in which children are freed and motivated to learn by interpreting social and cultural influences in the lives of students, facilitating use of peers to help troubled child or assisting in managing relationships in the classroom; 5. Organize parent and community groups to channel concerns about students and the school to improve school and community relations;

53. 6. Develop and maintain liaison between the school and critical fields of social work such as child welfare, corrections, Omental health, and legal services for the poor; 7. Provide leadership in the coordination of interdisciplinary skills among student services personnel.

54. GROUP ACTIVITY Divide the class into two. - Each group must have 2 representatives to act and the other group members will guess.

55. 1.Refers to the aspect of treating people with problems in social functioning.

56. 2. About removing the child from their homes and placing them temporarily .

57. 3. Is a group care home or a residential treatment center for a child.

58. 4.Protecting the child from the child abuse, maltreatment and exploitation by one or both parents.

59. 5.Refers to assisting the families plan the number, spacing and timing of the births children to fit with their needs.

60. Answers: 1.Curing 2. Foster Care 3. Residential Care 4.Protective Service 5. Family Planning