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Week 007 - Module The Discipline of Social Work

Social work aims to promote social change, problem solving, and empowerment. It utilizes theories of human behavior and social systems to intervene where people interact with their environments. The core principles of social work are human rights and social justice. Its goals are to empower individuals and communities through problem solving, support preventative social policies, and establish connections between people and resources to enhance well-being. The core values that guide social workers are compassion, social justice, dignity, importance of relationships, integrity, and competence.

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Week 007 - Module The Discipline of Social Work

Social work aims to promote social change, problem solving, and empowerment. It utilizes theories of human behavior and social systems to intervene where people interact with their environments. The core principles of social work are human rights and social justice. Its goals are to empower individuals and communities through problem solving, support preventative social policies, and establish connections between people and resources to enhance well-being. The core values that guide social workers are compassion, social justice, dignity, importance of relationships, integrity, and competence.

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[HUMSS_DIASS / Disciplines and Ideas in the Applied Social Sciences]

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[The Discipline of Social Work]

The Discipline of Social Work

At the end of the topic the students should be able to:


1. Explain the social work;
2. Describe the context and the basic concepts of social work;
3. Explain the goals and scope of social work;
4. Explain the principles of social work; and
5. Discuss the core values of social work

Definitions of Social Work


The Policy, Ethics and Human Rights Committee of the British Association of
Social Workers (2012) provide the definition of social work as “the social
work profession promotes social change, problem solving in human
relationship and the empowerment and liberation of people to enhance
wellbeing. Utilizing theories of human behavior and social systems, social
work intervenes at the points where people interact with their
environments. Principles of human rights and social justice are fundamental
to social work”

Goals and Scope of Social Work

DuBois and Miley (2008) highlight the following goals and scope of social
work calling them tenets. :

1. Empower people, individually and collectively, to utilize their own


problem solving and coping capabilities more effectively.
2. Support a proactive position with regard to social and economic
policy development to prevent problems for individuals and
society form occurring.
3. Uphold the integrity of the profession in all aspects of social work
practice.
4. Establish linkages between people and societal resources to
further social functioning and enhance the quality of life.
5. Develop cooperative networks within the institutional resources
system.
6. Facilitate the responsiveness of the institutional resource systems
to meet health and human service needs.

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7. Promote social justice and equality of all people with regard to full
participation in society.
8. Contribute to the development of knowledge to social work
profession through research and evaluation.
9. Encourage exchange of information in those institutional systems
in which both problems and resources opportunities are
produced.
10. Enhanced communication trough an appreciation of diversity and
through ethnically sensitive, nonsexist social work practice.
11. Employ educational strategies for the prevention and resolution of
problems.
12. Embraced a world view of human issues and solutions to
problems.

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
other professionals in the social work profession.

Principles Related to Respect for Human Rights


1. Upholding and promoting human dignity and well-being
2. Respecting the right to self-determination
3. Promoting the right to participation
4. Creating each person as a whole
5. Identifying and developing strengths

Principles Relative to Social Justice


1. Challenging discrimination
2. Recognizing diversity
3. Distributing resources
4. Challenging unjust policies and practices
5. Working in solidarity

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 professional accountable
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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 peoples.

These are the core values of social work according to (Du Bois & Miley 2008;
Segal, Gerdes, & Steiner 2005)
1. Compassion
2. Service
3. Social Justice
4. Dignity and worth of the person
5. Importance of human relationships
6. Integrity
7. Competence

Glossary
Core Values of Social Work – this is the aims of social workers in which stand
for the guiding principles in establishing harmonious relationship
Discipline of Social Work – this is the area in which the focus is all about
government welfare and social programs.
Social Work – this is a profession promotes social change.

References
Dela Cruz, A. et al. (2017), Disciplines and ideas in Social Sciences (Padayon)
Series) Rex Book Store, Inc.
Mendoza, D.J. et al., (2016), Discipline and Ideas in Applied Social Sciences,
Phoenix Publishing House.
Sampa, E.M. (2017) Discipline and Ideas in Applied Social Science, Rex
Bookstore, Inc. First Edtion.
Tatel, C.P. (2017) Discipline and Ideas in Applied Social Sciences, Rex Book
Store, Inc. First Edition.

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