TH E D I S C I P L I N E

O F S O C I A L W O R K
R E D BY: MS. IV Y POLIDARIO
PREPA
 WHAT COMES TO
YOUR MIND WHEN
YOU HEAR THE
PHRASE “SOCIAL
WORK”?
SOCIAL WORK
LOCAL DEFINITION:
SOCIAL WORK IS AN ACADEMIC AND PROFESSIONAL
DISCIPLINE THAT SEEKS TO FACILITATE THE
WELFARE OF COMMUNITIES, INDIVIDUALS, AND
SOCIETIES. IT FACILITATES SOCIAL CHANGE,
DEVELOPMENT, COHESION, AND EMPOWERMENT.
SOCIAL WORK
GLOBAL DEFINITION:
SOCIAL WORK IS A PRACTICE-BASED PROFESSION
AND AN ACADEMIC DISCIPLINE THAT PROMOTES
SOCIAL CHANGE AND DEVELOPMENT, SOCIAL
COHESION, AND THE EMPOWERMENT AND
LIBERATION OF PEOPLE.
GOALS OF SOCIAL WORK
There are five (5) goals of social work. They are presented sequentially, as follows:
1. To prepare practitioners who engage in evidence-based beginning level generalist practice with systems of all
sizes and diverse populations.
2. To prepare practitioners who understand and value human diversity.
3. To prepare practitioners who understand and appreciate the role and value of systematic data collection and
analysis in systems of all sizes for the purpose of promoting the goals of the profession of social work.
4. To encourage the development of a strong professional identity and a commitment to the values and ethics of
the social work profession in future practitioners.
5. To prepare students to understand the dynamics and consequences of social and economic injustice and the
importance of alleviating injustice and oppression.
 SCOPE OF SOCIAL WORK
1. Child development 2. Medical Social 3. Clinical Social 4. Social Work
Work Work Administration and
Management
 Right to education The medical social The clinical social  Budget Management
 Right against workers provide worker provides a full 
Monitoring and
assistance to the range of mental health
exploitation evaluation of public
patients and their family services including
 Right to and social policy
who are coping with assessment, diagnosis
rehabilitation many problems. and treatment.  Co-ordinate
 Right to speech and activities to achieve
the agencies goal
expression
 Staff co-ordination
 SCOPE OF SOCIAL WORK
5. International Social Work 6. Social Work in an Acute 7. Social Worker as a Other scopes of social work
Psychiatric Hospital Community Organizer are:
 Counsel and aid refugees to  Complete intake  Assist the community in  Addiction Treatment
ensure a smooth transition defining a school problem  Child abuse, adoption and
 Psycho-social
into a new environment. welfare
assessment  Provide direction and
 Criminal justice
 Facilitate international guidance to the
 Provide patient and  Crisis intervention
adoption community in order to  Development disabilities
family education and
mobilize and identified  Disaster relief
 Provide disaster relief in support
cause by case work, group 
time of crisis Domestic Relief
 Provide individual work and community  Domestic violence
 Counsel families to find treatment family and organization  HIV/AIDS
better solution to their group therapy  Assist in establishing new  Military Social Work
problems. Remove children  Political development
 Provide discharge and programs to meet the
from abusive situation and  Rural development
after planning. needs of individuals,
place it to care homes  Industrial development
groups and families.
 Women welfare
 PRINCIPLES OF SOCIAL WORK
The Policy Ethics, and Human Rights Committee of the British Association of Social Workers
(2012) has principles that apply in general to other professionals in the social work profession.

Principles Relative to Respect for Human Principles Relative to Social Justice

Rights 1. Challenging discrimination.
1. Upholding and promoting human dignity 2. Recognizing diversity.
and well-being.
2. Respecting the right to self-determination. 3. Distributing resources.

3. Promoting the right to participation. 4. Challenging unjust policies and practices.

4. Creating each person as a whole. 5. Working in solidarity.

5. Identifying and developing strengths.

 PRINCIPLES OF SOCIAL WORK
The Policy Ethics, and Human Rights Committee of the British Association of Social Workers
(2012) has principles that apply in general to other professionals in the social work profession.

Principles Relative to Professional Integrity

1. Upholding the values and reputation of the profession.
2. Being trustworthy.
3. Maintaining professional boundaries.
4. Making considered professional judgments.
5. Being professionally accountable.
 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.

1. Compassion. This can be considered as an important 3. Social Justice. It is a basis of their understanding of the
value for all humankind but in social work, it occupies a need to ensure that everyone get serviced and that
special impetus to the functioning of the profession. It is everyone get a share of what the community possesses in
the basis for someone to go out and become a voice to the material and non-material assets.
voiceless and a friend to the people who need it most.
4. Dignity and worth of the person. It is a value that
2. Service. It directs social workers to go beyond purely provides the determination and drive for social workers to
performing a service for a pay and allow them to be seek the marginalized in all forms without much regard as
generous with their time. to whether such problem in self-inflicted or socially
imposed.
CORE VALUE OF SOCIAL
WORK
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.

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.

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.
 ROLES OF SOCIAL WORK
AS A BROKER AS AN ADVOCATE
The social worker is involved in the
process of making referrals to the In this role, social workers fight
family or person to needed resources. for the rights of others and work
Social work professionals do not to obtain needed resources by
simply provide information. They also
convincing others of the
follow up to be sure the needed
resources are attained. This requires legitimate needs and rights of
knowing resources, eligibility members of the society.
requirements, fees, and the location of
the services.
 ROLES OF SOCIAL WORK
AS A CASE MANAGER AS AN EDUCATOR

They are involved in locating services Social workers are often involved in
and assisting their clients to access teaching people about resources and
those services. Case management is how to develop particular skills such as
especially important for complex budgeting, the caring discipline of
situations and for those who are children, effective communication, the
homeless or elderly, have chronic meaning of a medical diagnosis, and
physical or mental health issues, are the prevention of violence.
disabled, victims of domestic or other
violent crimes, or are vulnerable
children.
 ROLES OF SOCIAL WORK
AS A FACILITATOR AS AN EDUCATOR

In this role, social workers are

Social workers are involved in many
involved in gathering groups of people
levels of community organization and
together for a variety of purposes
action including economic
including community development,
development, union organization, and
self advocacy, political organization,
research and policy specialists.
and policy change.
ROLES OF SOCIAL WORK
AS A MANAGER

Because of their expertise in a whole

variety of applications, are well suited
to work as managers and supervisors in
almost any setting.
They are better able to influence policy
change and/or development, and to
advocate, on a larger scale, for all
underprivileged people.
CORE FUNCTIONS OF SOCIAL
WORK
ENGAGEMENT
“The social worker must first engage the
client in early meeting to promote a
collaborative relationship.”

ASSESSMENT
“Data must be gathered that will guide and
direct a plan of action help the client.”
CORE FUNCTIONS OF SOCIAL
WORK
PLANNING
“Negotiate and formulate an action plan.”

IMPLEMENTATION
“Promote resource acquisition and enhance
role performance.”
CORE FUNCTIONS OF SOCIAL
WORK
MONITOR/EVALUATION
“On-going documentation through short-
term goal attainment of extent to which
client is following through.”

SUPPORTIVE COUNSELING
“Affirming, challenging, encouraging,
informaing, and exploring options.”
CORE FUNCTIONS OF SOCIAL
WORK

GRADUATED DISENGAGEMENT
“Seeking to replace the social worker with
a naturally occurring resource.”
CLIENTS OF SOCIAL WORK
REFERENCES
Book: Sampa, Elias M.,
Discipline and Ideas in the Applied Social Sciences (First Edition). REX Book Store
Inc., 2017.
Ariola, Mariano M., LL.B.;Ed.D.; L.P.T
Discipline and Ideas in the Applied Social Sciences. UNLIMITED BOOKS LIBRARY
SERVICES & PUBLISHING INC., 2017.

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