Principles and Core Values of Social Work.pptx

Principles and Core Values of Social Sciences

1. Principles and Core Values of Social Work

2. Principles a fundamental truth or proposition that serves as the foundation for a system of belief or behavior or for a chain of reasoning.

3. Social Justice means the promotion of the welfare of all the people, the adoption by the Government of measures calculated to insure economic stability of all the competent elements of society, through the maintenance of a proper economic and social equilibrium in the interrelations of the members of the community, constitutionally, through the adoption of measures legally justifiable, or extra-constitutionally, through the exercise of powers underlying the existence of all governments on the time-honored principle of salus populi est suprema lex.

4. Social Justice must be founded on the recognition of the necessity of interdependence among divers and diverse units of a society and of the protection that should be equally and evenly extended to all groups as a combined force in our social and economic life, consistent with the fundamental and paramount objective of the state of promoting the health, comfort, and quiet of all persons, and of bringing about "the greatest good to the greatest number."

5. Social Justice ( Calalang vs Wiiliams , G.R. No. 47800. December 2, 1940)

6. Unanimity the quality or state of being unanimous

7. CORE VALUES OF SOCIAL WORK

8. 1. Right to Self-Fulfillment - Each person has the right to self-fulfillment which is derived from his/her inherent capacity and thrust toward the goal

9. Responsibility to Common Good Each person has the responsibility as a member of the society to seek ways of fulfillment that contribute to common good;

10. Responsibility of the Society The society has the responsibility to facilitate selffulfillment of the individual and the right to enrichment through the contribution of its individual members

11. Right to Satisfy Basic Needs Each person requires for the harmonious development of his powers socially provided and socially safeguarded opportunities for satisfying his/her basic needs in the physical, psychological, economic, cultural, aesthetic, and spiritual realms

12. Social Organizations required to facilitate individual’s effort at self realization The notion that individual and society has the responsibility to provide appropriate social resources, it is the right of the individual to promote change in social resources that do not serve his/her need-meeting efforts

13. Self-realization and contribution to society- To permit both self-realization and contribution to society by the individual, social organization must make available socially-provided devices for need-satisfaction as wide in range, variety, and quality as the general welfare allows.