DISCIPLINE AND IDEAS IN THE APPLIED

SOCIAL SCIENCES

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Quarter 2 – Module 9
 Disciplines of Social Work
(HUMSS_DIASS12-Ie-16 - 18)

What I Need To Know

This module demonstrate a high level of understanding of the basic concepts of social work through
a group presentation of a situation in which practitioners of social work collaborate to assist individuals,
groups, or communities involved in difficult situations (e.g., post disaster, court hearing about separation of
celebrity couple, cyberbullying).

In this lesson, you are expected to:

1. define social work;
2. explain the context and the basic concepts of the social work;
3. describe the goals and scope of social work;
4. discuss the principles of social work; and
5. explain the core values of social work.
What I Know
Pretest
Activity 1: Think and Share:

This activity encourages social sharing to express social understanding on beliefs and point of viiew
concerns on participation in primary and secondary group of socialization. What comes to your mind when
you hear the phrase “social work”?

What’s In
Review

In previous chapter you learned the clientele and audiences in counseling, settings, processes,
methods, and tools in counseling.

What’s New
Warm-up Activity

ACTIVITY 1: Think and Share:

This activity to share to express social concerns on social work or issues on what they think
and feel. With that, the student will describe what they have engage in and determine what makes
it social work. An opportunity to explore wide emagination to share thoughts on verifying your
insights by reading ahead about the concepts, goals, and scope of social work..

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What is it
Discussion
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Discipline of Social Work
Discipline of social work is
closely associated with government
welfare and social programs aimed
at achieving social justice, fairness
and attainment of social
equilibrium. “The social work
porfession promotes social change, problem solving in human relationships and the
empowerment and liberation of people to enhance well-being. Utilizing theories of human
behavior and social systems, social works intervenes at the points where people
interactwith their environments. Principles of human rights and social justice are
fundamnetal to social work. “(International Federation of Social Workers 2013).

Aims to protect vulnerable people from abuse, neglect, or self harm and to help
enhance their well being and quailty of life. Operates within legal frameworks for
protecting ans suppoting vulnerable people. Work closely with other professional, often
known as inter-professional working.

From Social Care to Social work

Social work has evolved from being a domestic common sense care to professional
service. A wide variety of people in the community, from friends to parents, relatives,
volunteers to all people of goodwill participate in providing social care. This includes
providing personal care, supporting individuals with daily living, and supportingpeoplt to
engage with their communities and involve more direct contact with people

Definition of Social work

The policy, ethics, and human rights committee of the British association of social
workers (2012) provides the definition of social work: “The social world profession
promotes social change, problem solving in human relationship and the empowerment
and liberation of people to enhance well-being. Utilizing theories of human behavior and
social systems, social work intervenes at points were people interact with their
environments. Principles of human right and social justice and fundamental to social
work.”
It is understood here the social work is a profession that fulfills the social work
mandate to promote well-being and quality of life. As such, it encompasses activities
directed in improving human and social conditions and alleviating human distress and
social problems through enhancing people’s competence and functioning, ability to
access social support and resources, creating human responsive social services, and
expansion of the structures of the society that provide opportunities for all citizens
(DuBois & Miley 2008)

Context and the basic concepts of social works

To appreciate the context and the basic concept of social work, one has to look
into its professional history (Segal, Gerdes, & Steiner 2005). The aim of social work is to
help individuals fit better into their environment and change concept, Segal, Gerdes, &
Steiner (2005) Locate the history of social work in the history of social welfare in
America. They particularly link social work history to the charity organization societies
founder 1877 with the aim of discovering the causes of poverty among individuals,
eliminate the causes, and eliminate poverty from society. Poverty was then seen as a
character defect of an individual. This perspective is half true, as evidence of social
science showed that there are multiple external forces and structures that account for
poverty and individuals.
The next movement that emerged as if to complement the first wave of social work
was called settlement movement which began 1877 (Segal, Gerdes, & Steiner 2005). The
settlement movement operated on the assumption that an individual’s well-being was
directly linked to his or her external surroundings therefore, that to help and individual
changing the environment where that the individual lives. Such include advocating for
better neighborhood services, public health programs, and employment conditions. This
two movement efforts of solving poverty of individuals by helping the individuals fit
better in their environment and changing that environment serve as today’s basic
concept of social work and its all various forms and services.
The context of social work is a place that requires professionals to direct their
service on needs of empowerment of people who experience some forms of vulnerability,
oppression, and living in poverty.

Goals and scope of social works

DeBois and Miley(2008) highlight the following goals and sculp of social works and
calling them tenets.

 Empower people, individually and collectively, to utilize their own problem-solving

and coping capabilities more effectively.
 Support a proactive position with regard to social and economic policy
development to prevent problems for individuals and society from occurring
period.
 Uphold the integrity of the profession in all aspects of social work practice.
 Establish linkages between people and societal resources to further social
functioning and enhance the quality of life.
 Develop cooperative networks within the institutional resources systems.
 Facilitate the responsiveness of the institutional resource systems to meet help
and human service needs.
 Promote social justice and equality of all people with regard of full participation
and society.
 Contribute to the development of knowledge for social work preofession through
research and evaluation.
 Encourage exchange of information in those institutional systems in which both
problems and resources opportunities are produced.
 Enhance communication through an appreciation of diversity and through
ethnically sensitive, non-sexist social work practice.
 Employ educational strategies for the prevention and resolution of problems.
 Embrace a world view of human issues and solutions.

The goal and scope of social work has laid down here is a noble and broad-to help
and individual being included in society and to transform the very society that creates
structures the marginalize individuals from full participation in the enjoyment of
social services and resources of community. Change sought is one that makes and
individual and the community a better place for everyone.

Principles of social work

The policy, ethics, and human rights committee of the British association of social
workers (2012) has the following principles that apply in general to all the
professionals in the social work profession

1. Upholding and promoting human rights and well-being

2. Respecting the right to self-determination

3. Promoting the right to participation

4. Creating each perso as a whole

5. Identifying and developing strengths

Principles Relative to Respect for Human Rights

Principles Relative to Respect for Justice
 1. Challenging discrimination - Social works have a responsibility to challenge
discrimination on the basis of characteristics such as ability, age, culture, gender or
sex, marital status, socio-economic status, political opinions, racial or other
physical characteristics, sexual orientation, or spiritual beliefs.

2. Recognizing diversity . Social workers should recognize and respect the diversity
of the societies in which they practice, taking into account individual, family, group,
and community differences.

3. Distributing resources. Social works should ensure that resources at the disposal
are distributed fairly ,accordingly to need.

4. Challenging unjust policies and practices. Social workers have a duty to bring
attention to their employers, policy makers, politicians, and the general public the
situations where resources are inadequate or where distribution of resources,
polocies, and practices are oppressive, unfair, harmful or illegal

5. Working in solidarity. Social workers, individually, collectively, and with others

have a duty to challenge social conditions that contribute to social exclusion,
stigmatization or subjugation, and work toward and inclusive socity .

Principles Relative to Personal Integrity

Upholding the values and reputation of the

profession

Being trustworthy

Maintaining professional bounderies

Making considered professional judgement

Being professional accountability

Core Values 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 the well-being and quality of life of all people. However, special
attention or priority is given to those who supper some forms of exclusions from receiving social services.
Therefore , the core values in the pursuit of social work include compassion, service, social justice, dignity
and worth of the person, importance of human relationship, integrity, and competence (Du Bois & Miley,
2008; Segal, Gerdes & Steiner,2005).

1. Compassion can be considered as an important values 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
2. Service as a value, direct social workers to go beyond performing a service for a pay and
allow them to be generous with their time. Their work borders on charity and
professional service. Without a special interest in pure service, much of the
social work could not be properly accomplished.
3. Social justice as a value for social workers, is a basis of their understanding of the need to
ensure that everyone get serviced and that everone get a share of what the
community possesses in material and non-material assests.
4. Dignity and Is a value that provides the determination and drive for social workers to seek
worth of the the marginalized in all forms without much regard as to whethere such problem
person is self-inflicted or socially imposed.At the heart of social work is the belief that
all human have dignity and worth regardless their acts and status in life.
5. Importance of as a value, makes it possible for soc workers do their job as most human
human situation they seek to address require collaborating with so many others
relationships professionals and individuals with a stake the issue. It is about relationships.
After all, it is in the context of relationship is the context of social
marginalization and inclusion.

6. Integrity 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 facilitate problem solving and empowerment of an individual
or a group.

7. Competence is a very important value for social work because it separates social care giving
from social work professional practice. Through special training, a social worker
becomes separated from all common sense, culture and religious-based care.

What’s more
Enrichment Activity
Think-Pair-Share
What new learning did you develop about the discipline of social work? Take your
time to come up with new insights to share. Write your answer below.
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What I Have Leraned

Generalization

ELABORATE
Go online and search for “social work in the Philippines”. Read the available
literature. Choose one specific practice of professional social justice, and professional
integrity are lived out. Share your findings through writing.

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What I can do?

Application

TEST YOUR KNOWLEDGE

1. Wtire the definition of social work as a profession.

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 2. In three sentences, explain the context with which the profession.
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3. Briefly describe the goals and scope of social work.

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What I can do?

Post-test

Fill out the chart below with at least three principles of social work relative to
different aspects.

Principles of Social Work

Respect for Human Social Justice Professional Integrity

Rights
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2. 2.
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3. 3.
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Additional Activity
Post-test
Know
Discuss each of the following core values in terms of how they influenced professional
social worker
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3. Social Justice_________________________________________________________
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4. Dignity and worth of a person____________________________________________

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5. Importance of human relationships_______________________________________

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6. Integrity_____________________________________________________________
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7. Competency__________________________________________________________
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8. Self-determination _____________________________________________________
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9. Diversity ______________________________________________________________
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10. Social care__________________________________________________________

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