2-Principles and Core Values of the social workers

This powerpoint is about the principles and the core values of the social workers.

1. Good afternoon!

2. SOCIAL WORKERS

3. OBJECTIVES At the end of the lesson the learners are expected to: 1.Identify the principles and core values of social work; 2.Demonstrate understanding in principles and core values of social work ; 3.Appreciate the importance of social work in the community.

4. 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.

5. 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.

6. 2. Service It directs social workers to go beyond purely p erforming a service for a pay and allow them to be generous with their time.

7. 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.

8. 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.

9. 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.

10. 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.

11. 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. PRINCIPLES OF SOCIAL WORK • Social work is based on respect for the inherent worth and dignity of all people and it is cultivated by altruistic and democratic principles.

13. • Friedlander (1958) and Biestek (1957) indicate seven (7) principles adhered by social workers including the following:

14. 1. Acceptance - this involves respecting the clients as they are under any circumstances and understands the meaning and causes of the client's behavior . The social worker manifests warmth, interest , and concern about the client and her/his situation. This also means recognizing the individual or people's strengths and potentials.

15. 2. Client's participation in problem-solving - a client made to understand the he/she is expected to participate in the entire process . This begins in the gathering of information then in defining the nature of the problem. The client also participates in planning ways in resolving such problem, identify resources to solve this, and eventually act on this through the help of different available resources.

16. 3. Self-determination - the idea behind this principle is that the clients ( individual, groups, or communities) who are in need have the right to determine their needs and how they should be met.

17. 4. Individualization - this involves recognizing and understanding the client's own unique characteristics and using different principles and methods for each client.

18. 5. Confidentiality - this means that the client should be accorded with appropriate protection , within the limits of law , from any harm that might result from the information s/he divulges to the worker. The client should be assured that what s/he tells will be kept in confidence. Moreover, confidentiality entails privacy . For instance, a social worker finds an available vacant room to keep conversations from being heard by others.

19. 6. Worker self-awareness - this means that the social worker is conscious about his/her role in making use of his/her professional relationship with the client in a way that will enhance the client's development rather than his/her own.

20. 7. Client-worker relationship - the purpose of client-worker relationship is to help the client in some area of his/her social functioning in which, at the present, s/he is experiencing some difficulty, and where the worker is in the position to offer help.

21. GROUP ACTIVITY: COMPOSE A SONG Compose a song with a lyrics that says the importance of social work by reflecting in their principles and core values.

22. Instructions: Read the question thorougly and answer each question briefly. 1. Upon reading the principles and values of social work, do you cant to take social work as a course in the future? Why?

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