Disciplines and Ideas in

Aplied Social Sciences

Reporting
Presented by: Group 4

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Nature of Poverty

Presentation B
Several types of Poverty

Overview C
What is Social Work?

D
Scope of Social Work

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 Nature of poverty
Poverty is a state or condition in
which a person or community lacks
the financial resources and essentials
for a minimum standard of living.

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 Cyclical poverty Collective Poverty
Poverty that may be widespread throughout a
population, but the occurrence itself is of limited Happens when a whole society or
duration. In non-industrial societies (past or group within it lacks basic
present), this sort of inability to provide for one’s
basic needs rest mainly upon problems with the
resources.
economic cycle.

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SKILLS 23 JANUARY

Concentretad Collective Case Poverty

Poverty

Parts of an industrialized country suffer Occurs when an individual or family can't

from poverty because most of the get what they need, even though resources
developments took place in selected area are available and others around them are
particularly in urban places. doing well.

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 What is Social Work?
Social work is an academic discipline and
practice-based profession concerned with
meeting the basic needs of individuals, families,
groups, communities, and society as a whole to
enhance their individual and collective well-
being

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 II. Being a Social Worker III. Core Mandates

Social workers are highly trained and

experienced professionals. Only those The core mandates of the social
who have earned social work degrees work profession include
at the bachelor’s, master’s, or doctoral promoting social change,
levels—and completed a minimum development, and cohesion, and the
number of hours in supervised empowerment and liberation of
fieldwork—are professional social people.
workers.

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 IV. Principles V. Knowledge
The overarching principles of
social work are respect for the Social work is both interdisciplinary
inherent worth and dignity of and trans-disciplinary, and draws on
human beings, doing no harm, a wide array of scientific theories
respect for diversity, and and research.
upholding human rights and
social justice.

VI. Practice
Social work’s legitimacy and mandate lie in its intervention at the points where people interact with their environment. The
environment includes the various social systems that people are embedded in and the natural, geographic environment, which has a
profound influence on the lives of people.

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 A. Social Work as Primary Discipline
a. Adoption and services to unmarried parents – facilitating the difficult decision of unmarried

parents whether to keep the baby or place the child for adoption.

b. Foster care – removing the children from their homes and placing them temporarily in foster care.

c. Residential care – a group of care home or a residential treatment center for children exhibiting antisocial behaviors
or behaviors that require intensive treatment

d. Support in your own home – involves providing support services in order to keep children in
their own homes.

e. Protective services – protecting the child from child abuse, maltreatment, and exploitation by one or both parents.

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 B. Family Services C. Income Maintenance
a. Public Assistance – refers to the provision of financial aid to the poor
a. Family Counseling
b. Social Insurances – social provisions that are funded by employers and employees
• Family casework – involves helping individual members of the family modify their behavior to through contributions to a specific program
make them more effective contributors to the family
c. Cash in kind and emergency support funds
• Family Group Work – the process by which the family examine its relationship and resolves their
problem with the help of the social worker
D. Community Service
• Family Therapy – focuses on transforming the structure of the family to make it more supportive
a. Community organization activities – involve the gathering and analysis of data related to the delivery of
of its members.
services, matching that information with the data od population distribution

b. Family life education – an intervention to strengthen the family through educational activities
b. Community planning – refers to the involvement of social workers with the physical, economic, and
that seek to prevent family breakdown
health planners in the long-range planning of communities.

c. Family Planning – refers to assisting the families to plan the number, spacing, and timing of the
c. Community development – the participation of social workers in providing to the people in the
births of children to fit with their needs.
communities as the aim to enhance their conditions

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 Interventive Roles and Functions of Social Workers
a. Resource broker – the role is about the direct provision of material aid and other resources that will be helpful in reducing
situational deficiencies.

b. Social broker – the role involves a process of negotiating the service jungle for clients. The social worker links the client
to the needed services and ensures quick delivery of these services.

c. Mediator – role includes acting as an intermediary or conciliator between persons or in groups and the social worker
engages her/his efforts to resolve disputes between the client and other parties.

d. Advocate – the role involves taking a partisan interest in the client and her/his cause and aims to influence another party in
the interest of the client through arguing, bargaining, negotiating, and manipulating the environment on behalf of the client

e. Enabler – the role is about activities that the social worker engages in order to help the clients cope with the current
situation and eventually find strengths and resources within themselves to solve problems they encountered,

f. Counselor/Therapist – role intends to restore, maintain, or enhance the client’s capacity to adapt to her/his current reality

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 Ethical Considerations in the Client-Worker Relationship
a. Acceptance – the worker ’s recognition of the individual’s worth as a human being imbued with inherent worth and dignity

b. Nonjudgmental attitude – means without labeling, no stereotyping, and non-condemnatory act that refrains from assigning blame, guilt,
or failure to the client

c. Individualization – characterized that every individual is unique and possesses certain traits or attributes specific only to her/himself.

d. Purposeful expression of feelings – refers to the worker ’s allowing and facilitating the client’s purposeful expression of feelings. This
means free sharing with a sympathetic worker of his/her thoughts and feelings even the negative ones.

e. Controlled emotional involvement – refers to the worker ’s way out of responding to the client’s purposeful expression of feelings. The
worker must keep his/her own emotions under control and should empathize but not over-identify with the client as the latter would

f. Confidentiality – refers to the preservation of secret information concerning the client which is disclosed in the professional
relationship.

g. Self-determination – is a derivative of the belief and dignity of a person – that he/she is endowed with
reason and free will and is capable of making his/her own choices

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 Thank you for
listening!

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