Defining the Roles,
Functions and
Competencies of Social
Work
Roles, Functions and Competencies of Social Work
According to Segal, Gerdes & Steiner
(2005) “the dual aims of helping individuals
fit better into their environments, typically
known as micro practice, and changing the
environment so that it works better for
individuals, referred to as macro practice.
Roles of
Social Work
Roles of Social Work
● These provide direction for professional
activities and are best situated in the context of
client system (DuBois & Miley 2008). The
roles are generally interwoven with functions
but DuBois and Miley (2008) have provided
elements that can be distinctively viewed as
role rather than functions. For individuals and
families, their role is that of an enabler
helping people find solutions.
Functions of
Social Work
These speak of main activities professionally performed by
social workers. DuBois and Miley (2008).
SOCIAL WORKERS ;
1. Counsel with individuals, facilitate groups,
work with families, refine agency procedures,
initiate new programs, lobby for legislative
changes, organize community action, educate
the public, conduct needs assessments, and
evaluate practice and programs at various
system levels and targets of change or social
transformation;
Functions of Social Work
2. Enhance social functioning of
individuals, families, groups,
organizations, and communities;
3. Link clients systems with
needed resources;
Functions of Social Work
4. Improve the operations of the
social service delivery network;
5. Promote social justice through
development of social policy.
Competencies
of Social Work
Competencies of Social Work
These cover over all necessary
skills and personally qualities needed
by the profession to perform their
various roles and skills.
Foundationally, social work requires
the following abilities and skills.
Competencies of Social Work
1. think critically;
2. build and sustain relationship ;
3. execute empowering processes;
4. use practical methods;
5. analyze policies;
6. communicate effectively;
Competencies of Social Work
7. strong cultural and intercultural
competence;
8. good computer literacy;
9. conduct research;
10. do social planning;
11. perform crisis interventions; and
12. sound time management
Segal, Gerdes, and Steiner (2005) suggest a
cost of functional competencies that social
workers should be capable of,
● handle case management with
various clients and population
groups;
● perform direct practice depending
on the needs of the client and the
environment in which the social
worker operate;
● conduct mediations among parties
specially where one party is
socially disadvantaged;
● make referrals to appropriate
agencies and service sectors
needed by the client;
● perform program planning and
administration in numerous
settings;
● in mental health setting, function
as case managers, advocates,
administrators, therapists, and to
use research as basis for problem-
solving and choice of intervention
in empirically based practice;
● in school system, analyze the
transactions between students,
teacher, parents, and the school
system;
● in the judicial system, make the
system more fair and beneficial to
both convicted criminals and their
victims; and
● pursue social change on behalf of
vulnerable and oppressed
individuals, eliminating economic
inequality and poverty.
STRETCH
YOUR BRAIN
1. If you want your siblings to be formally
educated, you enrol them in _______________.
2. There are a number of
_________________________ in the Philippines
that are established to respond to the
prevailing issue of substance abuse and
addiction.
3. A ______________ is not only established to
shelter armed troops, it also serves as a
training field for incoming members of the
armed forces.
4.In the Philippines, a huge number of
____________________ are sprouting like
mushrooms to help advance the interests of
a number of sectors that are found to be
incapable of protecting their rights.
Areas of
specialization
Professional social work requires full professional
training with college degree and in a number of cases,
requires a person to have a master’s or doctor’s degree in
social work. Social work specializations cover five major
fields (Hartman, 2015):
1. Family and child welfare
2. Health
3. Mental health
4. Corrections
5. Schools
Family and Child Welfare
Family welfare concerned with the
establishment and strengthening the
family in meeting its needs.
Child welfare concerned with the well-
being of the children and youth.
Health
Works in hospital settings to help
an individual cross the struggles
that a serious medical condition
can cause the individual and
family.
Mental Health
Provides therapy and assess the
capability building that focuses
on these individuals who
struggles in mental health
problems.
Corrections
Rehabilitation and capability
building are focuses on these with
individuals who struggles
substance abuse or mental health
problems.
School
School social worker employs
ways for intervention, assessment,
counselling, and capability
structure of students with
collaboration of school personnel
and parents to the social
development programs.
Career
Opportunities
of Social Work
Social work careers span a wide variety or
job opportunities in both public and
private practice.
Social workers can directly work with
people they serve and it is common for
them to volunteer their services.
According to Hartman (2015) these are the career
opportunities :
1. Administrators
- help run organizations
that provide social
services.
2. Supervisors
- assigning cases, reviewing case
activities, determining training
and developmental needs,
training employees,
providing technical direction,
reviewing worker performances,
and initiating corrective action.
3. Planners
- assess clients, create and
implement a plan, secure
and refer needed resources,
evaluate and monitor
improvement, and serve as
a client advocate.
4. Researcher
- To work and study effectively,
practitioners and students
require a good grasp of
relevant literature and research,
and the ability to consider
how this research relates to
their practice.
5. Teacher -They connect a student's school and home life, and
they assist in
the social and personal
development of students.
School social workers see
students individually and in
groups.
6. Child welfare administration
6. Child welfare administration
7. Elderly care services
8. Financial assistance
9. Medical care for the elderly.
10. Work in clinics and community treatment
11. Work in public housing projects
12. Find dwellings for families made homeless by
urban cities.
12. Find dwellings for families made homeless by
urban cities.
13. Work as social planning practitioners.
According to DuBois and Miley (2008) these are the
areas of opportunities:
1. Home health
2. Aging services
3. Mental health
4. Criminal justice
5. Rehabilitation
6. School linked services
7. Forensic social work
8. Corporate-based employee assistance
9. International practice and political social work
10. Neighborhood based
11. Multidisciplinary service centers
12. Public assistance
13. Employment services
14. Literacy programs
15. Family-centered services
16. Juvenile court services
17. Health care
RIGHTS,
RESPONSIBILITIES
AND
ACCOUNTABILITIES
OF SOCIAL WORK
RIGHTS, RESPONSIBILITIES AND
ACCOUNTABILITIES OF SOCIAL WORK
Cited by Dela Cruz (2016), the National Association of
Social Workers (NASW) has enlisted encompassing ethical
standards, mostly on their responsibilities as association.
It is the right to achieve professional mandates or what is
asked for the social worker to do in order for the social worker to
help the clients, general public and the society and live by its value.
A social worker must respect the clients.
WORD ASSOCIATION
https://teambuilding.com/
blog/vocabulary-games
HOW TO PLAY:
1. Representative of each group will
pick a word related to the topic and
will think of a word that will be
associated to the term that he/she
pick.
2. The group member of the
representative will answer or guess
the right word in span of 1 minute.
WORD ASSOCIATION
Learning Activity: GUESS WHAT?
Directions.
1. Analyze the descriptions provided in each
number.
2. Identify the values and responsibilities of a social
worker relative to the given descriptions.
3. Write your answer in the blank provided before
each number.
SERVICE
● Social workers are
encouraged to volunteer
some portion of their
professional skills with no
expectation of significant
financial return.
SOCIAL JUSTICE
● Social workers strive to ensure
access to needed information,
services, and resources; equality of
opportunity; and meaningful
participation in decision making
for all people.
INTEGRITY
● Social workers act honestly and
responsibly and promote ethical
practices on the part of the
organizations with which they are
affiliated.
COMPETENCE
● Social workers continually
strive to increase their
professional knowledge and
skills and to apply them in
practice.
HUMAN RELATIONSHIP
● Social workers seek to strengthen
relationships among people in a
purposeful effort to promote, restore,
maintain, and enhance the well-being
of individuals, families, social
groups, organizations, and
communities.
DIGNITY
● Social workers are cognizant of their
dual responsibility to clients’ interests
and the broader society’s interests in
a socially responsible manner
consistent with the values, ethical
principles, and ethical standards of
the profession.
CONFIDENTIALITY
● Social workers should not
solicit private information
from clients unless it is
essential to providing
services or conducting
social work evaluation or
research.
COMMITMENT
● Social workers’ primary
responsibility is to promote
the well-being of clients. In
general, clients’ interests
are primary focus.
CONSENT
● Social workers should provide
clients with an opportunity to ask
questions.
SELF-DETERMINATION
● Social workers respect and
promote the right of clients and
assist clients in their efforts to
identify and clarify their goals.
04
CONCLUSIONES
CONCLUSIONES
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