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2 Social Work Secondary Methods of Intervention

Indirect or Macro Practice They do not deal directly with clients but they require the performance of certain tasks and activities which facilitate an agencys operation and service and are required to enhance social work practice. Methods: Administration and Research

BROAD DEFINITIONS OF SOCIAL WORK ADMINISTRATION

Formulation of policy and its translation into operative goals Program design and implementation Funding and resource allocation Management of internal and interorganizational operations Personal direction and supervision Organizational representation and public relations Community education Monitoring, evaluation and innovation to improve organizational productivity

SOCIAL WORK ADMINISTRATION

Importance
One of the important methods of social work practice because what it does, the policies it enunciates, the plans it develops, the project it undertakes. Refers to the process by which the objectives of a social welfare agency or organization are achieved through the efficient utilization of men, money, materials, machine, time and space.

SOCIAL WORK RESEARCH

Definition Refers to systematic investigation, inquiry, and study of a problem for the purpose of adding more knowledge to already existing ones in a form that is communicable and verifiable.

Definition

Purpose
Its purpose is to produce knowledge for social work use, application, and practice. The perspectives and methods of science can provide a framework for practice activities. Helps to build knowledge for practice Serves the practical function of providing situation-specific data to inform such action as practice decisions, program, operation or efforts at social change. The main strategy of social work research is the study of phenomena by naturalistic methods without experimental methods. It must be utilized by practitioners who are responsible for planning, administering and implementing social work programs. In the Philippines the most popular form of social work research is the case study.

Purpose To sustain the function of the agency. Function Is a cumulative responsibility shared by all organizational members, and its key function is to enable individuals and groups within the social agency to maximize their participation and contribution to the organizations voluntarily.

Functions (Reid)

Responsibility
It includes responsibility for goal attainment and organizational maintenance activities in social welfare.

Strategy

To have a meaningful function

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