LICEO DE LA SALLE SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL
SECOND SEMESTER | QUARTER 3
SY 2020 – 2021 | DISCIPLINE AND IDEAS IN THE APPLIED SOCIAL
SCIENCE
NAME & SECTION __________________________
TEACHER Ms. Honney Jane Laurenia_____
MODULE 4
DISCIPLINE AND IDEAS IN THE APPLIED SOCIAL SCIENCE
1. Learning Competencies
After reading and answering this module, I can …
1. identify the goals and scope of social work (HUMSS_DIASS 12-Ie-16)
2. explain the principles and core values of social work (HUMSS_DIASS 12-Ie-18)
3. explain the roles and functions of social workers (HUMSS_DIASS 12-If-19)
4. identify career opportunities for social workers (HUMSS_DIASS 12-If-21)
5. value rights, responsibilities, and accountabilities (HUMSS_DIASS 12-If-22)
2. Specific Learning Objectives
After reading and answering this module, I can …
• To define social work and identify its goals and scope
• To explain the principles and core values of social work
• To show understanding of the roles and functions of social workers and identify specific
work areas in which social workers work
3. PERCEPTION CHECK
To jump-start this lesson, read and examine the statements in the "Anticipation Guide". In the
Before Learning Column, encircle "A" if you AGREE and "D" if you DISAGREE with the
statements. Do not search for the correct answer in any references. Your answer should be based
purely on what you know and understand in your previous Biology class. You will complete the
"after learning” column in the succeeding part of this lesson.
BEFORE AFTER
STATEMENTS
LEARNING LEARNING
A D The principal mission of social work profession is to A D
develop human being and assist other institutions in
attaining the basic human needs of the people and in
empowering them
It is vital for a social worker to be aware and be actively
A D vigilant in identifying structures that exacerbates the A D
situation and deepens social destruction
A D In terms of industry, social workers act as a support to A D
both the managers of the companies. They make
themselves available to the employees with social
problems for individual, family and group counseling.
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LICEO DE LA SALLE SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL
SECOND SEMESTER | QUARTER 3
SY 2020 – 2021 | DISCIPLINE AND IDEAS IN THE APPLIED SOCIAL
SCIENCE
NAME & SECTION __________________________
TEACHER Ms. Honney Jane Laurenia_____
Core values is not necessarily important in an
organization because it does not actually help in shaping
A D A D
the behaviors and actions of its members in interacting
with their clients and other people.
Each person requires for the harmonious development of
her/his powers socially provided and safeguarded
A D opportunities for satisfying her/his basic needs in the A D
physical psychological, economic, cultural, aesthetic,
and spiritual realms.
A D The concept of equal opportunities is premised on the A D
ideas of social justice, two elements of which are
fairness and equality.
THE DISCIPLINE OF SOCIAL WORK
4. THE DIFFINITION, GOALS, SCOPE, CORE VALUES, AND PRINCIPLES OF
SOCIAL WORK
DIFFINITION OF SOCIAL WORK
• “Social Work is an APPLIED SOCIAL SCIENCE of helping people achieve an effective level
of psychosocial functioning and effecting societal changes to enhance the well-being of
people” (Cox and Pawar, 2006)
• “Social work as a practical profession designed at helping people address their problems and
matching them with the resources, they need to lead healthy and productive lives.” (Australian
Association of Social Workers)
• “Social work as a field within human services and a part of services of the government. It
considers social work as an important service to the society focusing on the individuals and
families in need.” (United Nations Economic, Social and Cultural Organization, 2000)
• “The purpose of social work should not be to distribute favours, but to restore rights”
GOALS OF SOCIAL WORK
The principal mission of the social work profession is to develop human beings and assist other
institutions in attaining the basic human needs of the people and impowering the lost, the least,a nd
the last. Catalyzing the mission od the social work profession are the goals of social work. Morales
and Sheafor (1983) specificied three (3) distinguishing goals of social work namely: caring, curing,
and changing.
1. The Goal on Caring
Caring refers to the heart of social work and it focusses on the well-being or the welfare
and comfort of the individual and community. The caring portion is significantly
necessary in the effective execution of social work’s role in the society.
2. The Goal on Curing
Curing refers to the aspect of treating people with problems in social functioning. This
covers a range of aiding techniques for individuals, families., and groups.
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MODULE 1 | THE DISCIPLINE OF COUNSELING | SHS HUMSS 11
LICEO DE LA SALLE SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL
SECOND SEMESTER | QUARTER 3
SY 2020 – 2021 | DISCIPLINE AND IDEAS IN THE APPLIED SOCIAL
SCIENCE
NAME & SECTION __________________________
TEACHER Ms. Honney Jane Laurenia_____
3. The Goal on Changing
Changing refers to the active participation of the social workers in social reforms. This
goal comes from a perspective that there is a persistence of poverty, environment
destruction, and social disintegration.
ACTIVITY 1 : LOCATING SOCIAL WELFARE AGENCIES
Instruction:
1. Visit the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) website and look for the
directory of social welfare and development agencies. Choose at least five (5) agencies with active
registration and license. Write your answers below.
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5. SCOPE OF SOCIAL WORK
The wide range of human problems create a widened scope and field of social work (Lishman et al.,
2014). The scope of social work may also be determined and mapped out through its purposes and
roles.
1. Social Work as Primary Discipline
A. Adoption and services to unmarried parents
• Difficult decision to keep the baby or place it for adoption
• Applies both individual and group counseling to assist women in making decisions
B. Foster Care
• Removing children from homes and placing them to foster homes temporarily.
• Works with the parent, child and court to administer court decisions to remove a child due to
detrimental situations
C. Residential Care
• Group care home or a residential treatment center
• These are for children exhibiting anti-social behaviors that require intensive treatment
D. Support in own home
• Support services to keep children in their own homes
• Counseling, family consultations, clients with appropriate institutions such as day care centers
and home maker services.
E. Protective Services
• Protecting the child from abuse, maltreatment, exploitation by parents.
• Seeks to protect the child without infringing the rights of parents
F. Family Services
• Family counseling involves family case work, family group work and family therapy
• Family life education strengthens family relationships through educational activities to prevent
family breakdown
• Family planning involves planning the number, spacing and timing of child births to fit with
their needs.
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LICEO DE LA SALLE SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL
SECOND SEMESTER | QUARTER 3
SY 2020 – 2021 | DISCIPLINE AND IDEAS IN THE APPLIED SOCIAL
SCIENCE
NAME & SECTION __________________________
TEACHER Ms. Honney Jane Laurenia_____
G. Income Maintenance
• Public assistance – financial aid to the poor.
• Social Insurance- Social provision that are founded by employers and employees through
distributions to a specific program.
• Other forms - Cash in kind benefits, emergency support funds, and other resources that can be
used by the poor for food and shelter.
ACTIVITY 2: DETERMINING SOCIAL WORK’S PRIMARY DISCIPLINE
Instruction:
1. From the chosen agencies in the DSWD Directory, identify the different programs where social
work is depicted as a primary discipline. Write your answers on the space below.
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2. Social Work as an Equal Partner
A. Support for people in their own homes program
• Helping older people remain in their homes and linking them with community programs such
as health care, meals and home care services.
B. Support for people in the long-term care facilities
• Refers to nursing homes or other group living facilities.
C. Community Services
• Community organization activities – gathering and analysis of data, matching delivery of
services to the population distribution, securing funds, coordination with existing agencies and
educating the general public about the services.
• Community planning – involvement of social workers with the physical, economic and health
planners in the long-range planning of communities.
• Community Development – participation of social workers in providing aid to the people in the
communities as the aim to enhance their condition.
ACTIVITY 3: PROGRAMS DEMONSTRATED AS EQUAL PARTNERS
Instruction:
1. Using the same agencies that have been chosen in the DSWD Directory, identify the different
programs and services where social work is demonstrated as an equal partner. Write your answers on
the space below.
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LICEO DE LA SALLE SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL
SECOND SEMESTER | QUARTER 3
SY 2020 – 2021 | DISCIPLINE AND IDEAS IN THE APPLIED SOCIAL
SCIENCE
NAME & SECTION __________________________
TEACHER Ms. Honney Jane Laurenia_____
________________________________________________________________________________
________________________________________________________________________________
________________________________________________________________________________
____________________________________________.
3. Social Work as a Secondary Discipline
a. Correctional Facilities – provide counseling and link them to the outside world, provide
support upon release.
b. Industry – Support to both managers and employees. Serves as basis for development
c. Medical and Health care – attend to the social and psychological factors contributing to the
medical condition of the patients.
d. Schools
• Facilitate the provision of direct educational and social services.
• Act as pupil advocate focusing on the urgent needs of the selected students
• Consult with teachers about techniques for creating a free and motivating climate for children
by interpreting social and cultural influences
• Provide leadership in coordination of student services in guidance, clinic staff, psychologists
and attendant
6. CORE VALUES OF SOCIAL WORK
1. Right to Self- Fulfillment
2. Responsibility to Common Good
3. Responsibility of the Society
4. Right to Satisfy Basic Needs
5. Social Organizations required to facilitate individual’s effort at self- realization
6. Self-realization and contribution to society
7. PRINCIPLES OF SOCIAL WORK
1. Acceptance
• Respecting clients under different circumstances
• Understanding the meaning and causes of clients behavior
• Recognizing people’s strength and potentials, weakness and limitation.
2. Client’s participation in Problem Solving
• Client is expected to participate in the process.
• Participates in planning ways in resolving problem
• Act through the available resources
3. Self-determination
• Individual, groups and communities who are in need have the right to determine their needs
and how they should be met.
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LICEO DE LA SALLE SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL
SECOND SEMESTER | QUARTER 3
SY 2020 – 2021 | DISCIPLINE AND IDEAS IN THE APPLIED SOCIAL
SCIENCE
NAME & SECTION __________________________
TEACHER Ms. Honney Jane Laurenia_____
4. Confidentiality
• Client should be accorded with appropriate projection, within the limits of the law, with no
any harm that might result from the information given to the social worker.
5. Worker self-awareness
• Social worker consciously examines her feelings, judgments, biases, responses whether it is
professionally motivated.
6. Client-worker relationship
• The purpose of client-worker relationship is to help the client in some area of her/his social
functioning in which, at the present, s/he is experiencing some difficulty, and where the
worker is in the position to offer help.
PROFESSIONALS AND
PRACTITIONER IN SOCIAL WORK
8. ROLES AND FUNCTIONS OF SOCIAL WORKERS
1. Resource Broker- Direct provision of material; aid and other resources that will be
helpful in reducing situational deficiencies.
2. Social broker- Involves the process of negotiating the “service jungle” for clients. The
social worker links the clients to the needed services and ensures quick delivery of these
services.
3. Mediator- This role includes acting as an intermediary or conciliator between persons or
in groups and the social workers engage her/his effort to resolve disputes between the
client and other parties.
4. Advocate- involves taking a partisan interest in the client and her/his cause and aims to
influence another party in the interest of the client through arguing, bargaining,
negotiating, and manipulating the environment on behalf of the client.
5. Enabler- This role is about activities that the social worker engages in order tp help the
clients cope with the current situation and eventually find strengths and resources within
themselves to solve problems they encountered.
6. Counselor/Therapist- Intends to restore, maintain, or enhance the client’s capacity to
adapt to her/his current reality.
7. Advocate- In this role, social workers fight for the rights of others and work to obtain
needed resources by convincing others of the legitimate needs and rights of members of
society.
8. Educator-Social Workers are often involved in teaching people about resources and how
to develop particular skills such as budgeting, the caring discipline of children, effective
communication, the meaning of a medical diagnosis, and the prevention of violence.
9. THE FUCNTIONS OF SOCIAL WORK
1. Rehabilitative Function- refer to the restoration, curative, and remedial actions. Social
workers are responsible for assessing individuals and groups to determine and settle or reduce
the problem that came out of the imbalance between the individuals and the environment.
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LICEO DE LA SALLE SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL
SECOND SEMESTER | QUARTER 3
SY 2020 – 2021 | DISCIPLINE AND IDEAS IN THE APPLIED SOCIAL
SCIENCE
NAME & SECTION __________________________
TEACHER Ms. Honney Jane Laurenia_____
2. Preventive Function- detects impending imbalance between the individuals or groups with
the environment. This function encompasses early detection, control, and eradication of
situations which may have a damaging effect on the social functioning.
3. Developmental Function- ascertains and strengthens the full potential in individual, groups,
and communities.
10. AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION OF SOCIAL WORKERS
SPECIFIC WORK AREA AREA
Child, Family, and School Social Worker Deals with helping a child who has experienced
trauma or abuse, counseling students at school,
and helping parents find the right resources for
their child who is suffering from a severe mental
illness.
Community Social Worker Helps plan, coordinate, and organize efforts
related to infrastructure, volunteering, and
fundraising within specific communities.
Hospice and Palliative Care Social Worker Help or care for someone who is seriously or
terminally ill.
Medical and Heath Social Worker Works in hospital settings and helps navigate the
emotional, financial, and physical struggles that
a serious medical condition can cause an
individual or family.
Mental Health and Substance Abuse Social Assists individuals who struggle with addiction,
Worker substance abuse, or mental health problems,
Military and Veterans Social Workers Helps both the soldiers and their families with
post-traumatic stress, role adjustments, and any
substance abuse that may occur as a result of
combat.
Moreover, to further broaden your understanding in the functions of the social worker, Mendoza
(2002) identified the specific areas of work that they perform in each field. These are presented in the
table below:
Child Welfare Concerned with the well-being of the children
through the provision of programs and services
for their physical, social, psychological,
spiritual, and cultural development.
Family Welfare Concerned with the improvement and
strengthening of the family in meeting its own
needs.
Health Concerned with continuously defining and
solving problems aimed at facilitating and
strengthening social relationships and mutual
adjustments between individuals and their
environment.
Community Welfare Encompasses a variety of programs and services
which have for their main goal the well-being of
entire communities.
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LICEO DE LA SALLE SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL
SECOND SEMESTER | QUARTER 3
SY 2020 – 2021 | DISCIPLINE AND IDEAS IN THE APPLIED SOCIAL
SCIENCE
NAME & SECTION __________________________
TEACHER Ms. Honney Jane Laurenia_____
Cultural Communities These communities are affected to a certain
degree because of the prejudice and
discrimination they are subjected to.
Industry and Labor Concerned in efforts to establish or improve
social security, health, and general welfare of
employees and their families.
Education and Training Involves in the transfer of social work
knowledge and skills
International Social Work The international professional practice and the
capacity for international action by the social
work profession and its members.
11. CODE RIGHTS, RESPONSIBILITIES, ACCOUNTABILITIES, AND CODE OF
ETHICS
Element Brief Description
(On the ethical responsibility to clients)
Commitment to Clients Uphold the well-being of clients. The client’s
interests are primary
Self-Determination Respect and promote the rights of clients to self-
determination and assist clients in their efforts to
identify and clarify their goals.
Informed Consent Provide services to clients only in the context of
a professional relationship based, when
appropriate, on valid informed consent.
Competence Provide services and represent themselves
within the boundaries of their professional
experience.
Cultural Competence and Social Diversity Understands culture and its function in human
behavior and society, and recognizing the
strengths that exist in all cultures
Conflict of interest Be alert to and avoid conflicts of interest that
interfere with the exercise of professional
discretion and impartial judgement.
Privacy and Confidentiality Respect clients’ right to privacy.
Access to records Social Workers should provide clients with
reasonable access to records concerning the
clients.
Sexual Relationships Do not engage in sexual activities or sexual
contact with your current clients, whether such
contact is consensual or forced
Physical Contact Do not engage in physical contact with clients
when there is a possibility of psychological harm
to the clients as a result of the contact.
Sexual Harassment Do not sexually harass clients
Derogatory Language Do not use derogatory language in their written
or verbal communications to or about clients
Payment to services Ensure that fees are fair, reasonable, and
commensurate with the services performed.
Source: Based on NASWB Ethical Standard
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LICEO DE LA SALLE SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL
SECOND SEMESTER | QUARTER 3
SY 2020 – 2021 | DISCIPLINE AND IDEAS IN THE APPLIED SOCIAL
SCIENCE
NAME & SECTION __________________________
TEACHER Ms. Honney Jane Laurenia_____
REFERENCES
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