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What Is Social Work?: Nur Haslinda Binti Mohd Nazamri BP14110472 Thursday 7pm - 10pm

Social work is a helping profession that aims to assist individuals, groups, and communities cope with complex socio-economic and psychological problems. Social workers support people and act as advocates, directing them to required services. They often work on multidisciplinary teams with health and education professionals. The objectives of social work are to promote effective human services, enhance problem solving and development capacities, link people to resources and opportunities, develop social policies, and work to change society. Social workers specialize in fields like gerontology, health, mental health, schools, and more. Some challenges social workers face include lack of recognition of the profession in Malaysia and limited resources.

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What Is Social Work?: Nur Haslinda Binti Mohd Nazamri BP14110472 Thursday 7pm - 10pm

Social work is a helping profession that aims to assist individuals, groups, and communities cope with complex socio-economic and psychological problems. Social workers support people and act as advocates, directing them to required services. They often work on multidisciplinary teams with health and education professionals. The objectives of social work are to promote effective human services, enhance problem solving and development capacities, link people to resources and opportunities, develop social policies, and work to change society. Social workers specialize in fields like gerontology, health, mental health, schools, and more. Some challenges social workers face include lack of recognition of the profession in Malaysia and limited resources.

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WHAT IS SOCIAL

WORK?
Nur Haslinda Binti Mohd Nazamri
BP14110472
Thursday 7pm 10pm

Definition
Social work is a helping profession which fundamentally
and radically aims to assist the individuals, groups and
community to cope with their complex socio-economic
psychological problems through enabling themselves so
that they can solve their problem by helping themselves.
Social workers support people, act as advocates and direct
people to the services they may require.
Social workers often work in multi-disciplinary teams
alongside health and education professionals.

1) To promote
effective & human
service system

5) Caring, curing &


changing the
society.

4) To develop &
improve social
policy

Aim &
Objecti
ve of
social
work

2) To enhance
problem solving,
coping &
development
capacities,

3) To link people
with resources,
services &
opportunities,

Basic helping
skills

Empathy
skills

Communicati
on skills

Skill
s

Engagement
skills

Observation
skills

Specialization (field)
Gerontological
Community Soc
Social Worker
ial Workers
s

Social Workers
in Administra
tion, Policy a
nd Research

Child, Family,
and School So
cial Workers

Medical and He
alth Social Wo
rkers

Mental Health
and Substanc
e Abuse Socia
l Workers

Military and V
eterans Social
Work

Psychiatric So
cial Workers

School Social
Workers

Palliative and
Hospice Socia
l Work

Challenge in Social Work


1. Almost Malaysian does not know what is Social Work
Profession.
2. Limited resource.
3. Stress.
4. Challenging client.

References
Abraham Flexer. (2001). Research on Social Work Practice. Is Social Work a
Profession?, 11 (2), 152 165.
Code of Ethics of the National Association of Social Workers. Retrieved from
http://umaine.edu/socialwork/files/2013/02/NASW-Code-of-Ethics.pdf
Frederic G. Reamer, PhD. (2012, Mac). Why Our World Needs Social Work. Social
Work
Today.
Retrieved
from
http://www.socialworktoday.com/news/enews_0312_01.shtml
Malaysian Association of Social Work. Retrieved May 2, 2015 from
http://www.masw.org.my/
Samir Muhazzab Amin & Winny Abdul. (2009). Pengantar Kerja Sosial. Kuala
Lumpur: Utusan Publications & Distributors Sdn. Bhd.

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