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    Social work can be performed in a variety of settings including government departments, primary agencies focused on social services, and secondary agencies where social workers support other services. The social work process typically involves assessment, planning, intervention, evaluation, and termination. This includes gathering information, defining the problem, setting goals, implementing a plan of action, assessing outcomes, and ending the client relationship. Social workers utilize various methods and tools in their practice such as casework, group work, community organization, research, and administration. Key tools include interviews, communication, and maintaining accurate records.

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    Lesson 4:

    SOCIAL WORK SETTING,


    PROCESSES, AND
    SERVICES

    GROUP 4
    Humss 1 (ALLIANCE)
    SOCIAL WORK
    SETTINGS


    Social work
    is performed and exercised
    in different settings,
    including but not limited to
    government departments.
    Social work is practiced either in a primary or
    secondary setting.

    Primary Settings – Are those agencies
    whose programs and services are direct
    purview of social work.

    EXAMPLES:
    Christian Children’s Fund, Save the Children,
    Hospicio de San Jose, Department of Social Welfare and
    Development, among others.

    Secondary Settings – Are agencies, institutions,
    or organizations whose primarily function is
    not to provide social welfare services but
    employ social workers to
    support/strengthen/complement their own
    services.

    EXAMPLES:
    Hospitals, family courts, nutrition centers, schools,
    corporations, etc.
    GOVERNMENT

    Social workers are involved in


    research, technology
    development, policy analysis,
    and development, planning,
    standards development, capacity
    building, program management
    including crisis intervention and
    disaster relief operation and
    management, social marketing,
    and special projects.
    PRIVATE SECTOR
    Social workers
    are found in private
    practice and are
    offering various
    kinds of services.
    CIVIL SOCIETY
    Social workers are
    often employed by
    different child-caring,
    and child-placing social
    welfare agencies
    offering services related
    to adoption, foster care,
    residential care,
    independent living,
    reintegration/reunificat
    ion services, after care
    services, etc.
    SCHOOLS
    Some schools
    are also hiring
    social workers to
    aid the students in
    their adjustment
    in school as well
    as guide them in
    their scholastic
    performance.
    COMMUNITY
    Specifically,
    social workers are
    also employed in
    different
    community service
    centers (either run
    by local counsils,
    church and
    people’s
    organization)
    SOCIAL WORK
    PROCESS


    Social work follows a helping
    process when working with
    specific clients.
    HELEN HARRIS PERLMAN is
    known to be the originator of the
    problem-solving framework in the
    social work profession.
    Perlman (1957) as cited by Mendoza (2002) presented a
    series of problem-solving operations summarized as
    follows:

    STUDY – the facts which constitute and bear upon
    the problem must be ascertained and grasped;
    DIAGNOSIS – the facts must be thought about i.e.
    turned over, probed into, and organized in the mind,
    examined in their relationships to one another, and
    searched for their significance; and
    TREATMENT – some choice or decision must be
    made as an end result of the consideration of the
    particular facts with the intention of resolving the
    problem.
    Nonetheless, there have been numerous authors in
    social work literature who follow a framework for the
    problem solving process.

    Mendoza (2002) later on summarized this into five
    (5) basic steps namely:
    Assessment
    Planning
    Intervention or plan implementation
    Evaluation
    Termination
    ASSESSMENT

    Max Siporin as cited by Johnson (1986) and
    Mendoza (2002) defines assessment as a process
    and a product of understanding on which
    action is based.

    The Social Worker’s tasks include


    information-gathering and problem
    definition based on what the client and
    worker agreed upon.
    Various sources in gathering data to obtain accurate
    definition of the client’s problem.

    a. PRIMARY SOURCE – the client it self.
    b. SECONDARY SOURCE – the others with whom
    the client has personal relationships.
    c. EXISTING DATA – these can be records or
    reports from other professionals or documents from
    other agencies.
    d. WORKER’S OBSERVATION – the worker has
    the opportunity to observe the client through the
    latter’s interaction and relationship with others.
    The initial contact between the client and the worker
    comes in three different ways:

    a. WALK-IN - The client initiates the contact and
    seek the assistance of the agency social worker about
    a particular concern or problem.
    b. REFERRAL – The client is referred to the worker
    or a social welfare agency by an interested or
    concerned party or entity.
    c. OUTREACH – The agency, through its social
    worker/s, reaches out to the prospective clients to
    offer help.
    PLANNING

    Its process translate the
    content of assessment into a
    goal statement that describes
    the desired results and is
    concerned with identifying the
    means to reach the goals.
    Planning involves two major tasks:


    Formulating goals that directly
    relate with the clients problem.
    Defining the specific actions or
    interventions that are
    necessary in order to achieve
    the goals.
    INTERVENTION

    Intervention is concerned
    with the action that would
    solve the client’s problem.
    EVALUATION

    Evaluation is defined as the
    collection of data about outcomes of
    the program of action relative to
    goals and objectives set in advance of
    the implementation of that program
    (Johnson, 1986, p. 385).
    TERMINATION

    The helping process has a time
    limit therefore a social worker is
    expected to discuss with the
    client the expected duration of
    the helping relationship.
    There were two terms used in relation to the
    termination of the client-worker relationship

    1. TRANSFER – is the process by which
    a client is referred by her/his social
    worker to another worker.
    2. REFERRAL – is the act of directing a
    client to another worker/agency
    because the service that the client
    needs is beyond the present agency.
    Lesson 5:
    Methods and Tools
    in Social Work

    METHODS OF SOCIAL
    WORK

    SOCIAL CASEWORK

    Social casework is a method of
    helping people solve problems. It
    is individualized, scientific, and
    artistic. It helps individuals with
    personal as well as external and
    environmental matters.
    Hollis (1949, 1964) identified four major casework
    processes or techniques namely;


    a. ENVIRONMENTAL MODIFICATION
    b. PSYCHOLOGICAL SUPPORT
    c. CLARIFICATION
    d. INSIGHT DEVELOPMENT
    SOCIAL GROUP WORK

    Is a process and method
    through which group life is
    affected by a worker who
    consciously guides the
    interaction process.
    (Wilson & Ryland, 1949 as cited in Mendoza, 2002,
    p. 609)
    COMMUNITY ORGANIZATION

    Dunham (1970) described this as a
    conscious process of social interaction and
    a method of social work concerned with
    the following:
    a) Meeting of broad needs
    b) Assisting people in effectively
    c) Bringing changes in community and
    group relationships
    SOCIAL ACTION/SOCIAL REFORM


    Is an organized effort with aim
    of securing social progress and
    solving mass social problems by
    influencing legislation or the
    administration of social services.
    SOCIAL WORK RESEARCH

    Involves a critical inquiry and
    the scientific testing of the validity
    of social work organization,
    function, and methods in order to
    verify, generalizes, and extend
    social work knowledge and skill.
    SOCIAL WELFARE ADMINISTRATION


    Is the administration of public
    and private social agencies
    designed and organized to
    achieve the full effect of the
    services for which they have
    been established.
    Tools in Social Work

    INTERVIEW

    This involves a face-to-face
    interaction or meeting between
    two or more persons, directed
    toward a purpose like to obtain
    information and facts, to give
    instructions, and to help.
    COMMUNICATION

    Is a two-way process which
    usually starts with the source
    initiating the process and a
    receiver responding.
    The following are the important elements of
    communication

    a. SOURCE
    b. MESSAGE
    c. CHANNEL
    d. RECEIVER
    e. FEEDBACK
    RECORDS

    It served a lot of purposes to
    the worker and the social
    welfare agency.
    The types of records prepared by social workers and social
    welfare agencies include but not limited to the following


    a. Intake Forms – reports containing data obtained
    prior to admission and entering into a helping
    relationship.
    b. Summary Records - entries of information obtained
    as part of the gathering stage in problem-solving.
    c. Survey Reports – contains findings about the
    community situation indicating the date, place, and
    source of data.
    d. Case Study – report summarizing the obtained
    information about the client and his/her
    environment.
    e. Summarized process Recordings – should
    contain considerable details about the content
    of interviews.

    f. Progress Notes/Reports – regular accounts of
    the client’s activities and engagements.
    g. Case Conference Reports – an account of the
    proceeding or a summary of recommendations
    from the helping team composed of social
    workers.
    h. Home Visitation – a report containing vital
    information and assessment about the client’s
    family and environment.
    i. Periodic Evaluative Summaries – includes a
    statement about the major development that have
    occurred.

    j. Transfer Summaries – a report prepared if the
    case will be transferred to another worker or unit.
    k. Final Evaluative Statement - focuses on the
    extent to which goals/objectives spelled out in the
    Case Study.
    l. After Care Reports – a report prepared six
    months to one year after the reintegration or
    reunification of the client to his/her family.
    m. Closing Summary – a report prepared once the
    case has been closed or officially terminated due
    to various reasons.

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