THE DISCIPLINE OF SOCIAL WORK Core Values of Social Work

 Compassion

Social Work  Service

 Closely associated with government welfare  Social Justice

and social programs aimed at social justice,
fairness and attainment of social equilibrium.  Dignity of the worth of the person

 Promotes social change, problem solving in  Importance of Human Relationship

human relationships
 Integrity
 The empowerment and liberation of people
to enhance wellbeing.  Competence

 Aim to protect the vulnerable people from

abuse, neglect, or self-harm to help enhance
their well-being and quality of life.

 Social workers work closely with other THE PROFESSIONALS AND PRACTIONERS IN
professionals. THE DISCIPLINE OF SOCIAL WORK

Goals and scope of Social Work
 Empower people individually and collectively.
 Support a proactive position with regard to
social and economic policy.
 Uphold integrity of the profession at all times.
Roles, Functions and Competencies of Social
Work
■ Helping Profession
■ Goes beyond other social science to help
client gain access to other community
resources and support and empower them.

 Develop cooperative networks. ■ Provides direction from professional

activities and are best situated in the context
 Promote social justice and equality of client system

 Contribute to the development of knowledge

for social work profession through
FUNCTIONS
researches.
 Counsel with individual, facilitte groups work
 Employ strategies for prevention and
with families, work with communities.
resolution of problems
 Enhance social fuctioning of individuals.

Principles of Social Work  Improve the quality of social services

 Respect for Human Rights  Promote social justice through the

development of social work
 Principles related to Social Justice

 Professional Integrity
COMPETENCIES THE SOCIAL WORK HELING PROCESS

■ Critical thinkers Generalist Social Work Practice

■ Build and sustain relationships  Generalist practitioners acknowledge the

interlay of personal and collective issues
■ Execute empowering processes promoting them to work with variety of
human systems societies and communities
■ Practical methods

■ Analyzing policies
SOCIAL WORK HELPING PROCESS
■ Strong cultural and intercultural competence

■ Good computer literacy

■ EXPLORATION AND ENGAGEMENT
■ Social planning
Establishing professional boundaries-
■ Perform crisis intervention
Identifying the problems, needs and
■ Conduct research strengths

■ Sound time management Recognizing feelings and reactions

Increasing client system investment

AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION OF SOCIAL WORK Determining goals

 Family and Child Welfare Making initial plans

 Health Monitoring engagement phase

 Mental Health ■ ASSESSMENT

 Defined both as process and product of
 Corrections understanding that serves as the basis
of action.
 Schools  Serves as getting the ideas for
diagnosis
■ PLANNING

CODE OF ETHICS OF SOCIAL WORK  During this phase every effort is made to
conceptualize and verbalized the
 Service identified problems strengths and
corresponding goals
 Social Justice
 All these are out to what is called as
 Dignity and Worth of a Person contract plan.

 Importance of Human Relationships ■ INTERVENTION

 Integrity  To facilitate empowerment transactions

between the client and their
 Competence environments.

 More specifically the goal is to enable

people overcome those conditions that
 keep them from enjoying the benefits of
society

■ EVALUATION AND TERMINATION

 Process of determining the effectiveness of

our work whit clients concerned with whether
the outcomes the worker and client hoed for
have been achieved.

 The purpose of termination on the other

hand is to sever the professional relationship
between the social worker and the client in a
timely and responsible manner.

SEVERAL GUIDELINES IN THE TERMINATION

 Avoid at all cost the possibility of an abrupt

or unexpected termination.

 As, termination approaches, it is desirable to

gradually decrease the frequency of the
contact.

 Utilize rituals to mark the ending of a

meaningful relationship. This would involve
culturally aroriate goodbyes, such as
hugging and shaking hands.
  Context pertains to the setting or
environment surrounding the communication
transaction.

THE DISCIPLINE OF COMMUNICATION  Noise anything that can distort the message.

 Effect each communication has its

consequences.
Communication

 Called as the most practical of all academic

disciplines. Process of Communication

 Everyday practice  Transmission model or the linear model

 Building knowledge and skills  Interactional model

 Making us effective and ethical  Transactional model

communicators.

 Came from the Latin word communis, which

means common. Principles of Communication

 Communication is dynamic.
Communication is always evolving
Methods of Communication.
 Communication is unrepeatable and
 Verbal communication is communicating with irreversible. Each communication
spoken words. Referred also as oral encounter affects and changes people.
communication.
 Communication has no opposite. We
 Non-verbal communication includes body cannot not communicate.
language.
 Communication is affected by culture.
 Written communication is a method that uses Culture affects how people attribute
written symbols. meanings.

 Communication is influenced by ethics.

It requires that the participants make
Elements of Communication
judgements of what is right and wrong.
 Message is the content of the
 Communication is competence based. It
communicative act
is a skill that needs to be developed.
 Sender decides what is to be communicated,
 Communication is being transformed by
encodes ideas and feelings into verbal or
media and technology.
non-verbal symbols.

 Receiver is also known as the decoder.

Goals of Communication
 Channel all message is transmitted through
a channel.  To inform and be informed. Through
communication that we seek and provide
 Feedback refers to the information or signal
information.
sent back to the sender by the receiver.
Through verbal or non-verbal means.
  To persuade and influence. We want
someone to do something or to agree with
our point of view.
 To build and maintain relationships. It is
through communication we express love,
anger, pain and pleasure. Without
communication it is impossible for us to
reach out.
 To develop a career. Nowadays a college
diploma is not enough to land a job that you
want. Studies shows that an applicant with
good communication skills has edge when it
comes to getting hired.
COMMUNICATION PROFESSIONALS AND
PRACTITIONERS
Roles and functions of Communication
 Political role
 Disseminating information
 Creating and reflecting public opinion.
 Watchdog of the government.
Economic Role
 Communication plays an important role in
the development of the economy.
 One way is through advertising
 Educate the public about economics.
Social Role
 Communication plays an integral role in
developing and strengthening the social
fabric of developing countries.
 Mass Culture or the popular culture.
Propagated through mass media.
 Includes trends, memes, images, fashion
and others.
 Entertaining and educating the public
 Building a nation
 Developing a country
Competencies of a Communicator
 Motivation. The driving force for engaging in
a communicative event.
 Knowledge. Concerns with what
communicators know and understand.
 Skills refers to the behavior or action being
performed during the communication act
itself.
Areas of Specialization and Careers in
Communication
 Advertising
 Public Relations
 Corporate Communications
 Journalism
 Broadcasting.
 Film Industry
 Digital Communications and Multimedia
 Research
Rights of Communicators.
 Constitutional Guarantee. 1987 constitution
guarantees press freedom. Article 3 sec.4
states that “NO law shall be passed
abrifdging the freedom of speech,
expression or of the press or the right of the
people to peacefully assemble and petition
the government for redress of grieviances.
  Article 3 sec 7 grants all access to
information including the government
research data and public records. Subject to
limitations prescribed by the law.
 Article 3 sec 8 the state adapts and
implement a policy of full public disclosure of
all its transactions involving public interests.
court, or when public safety or order
requires.
 Anti obscenity Article 201 of the revised
penal code. Prohibits practitioners from
proliferating immoral doctrines, obscene
publications and exhibitions and indecent
shows to safeguard public morals especially
the youth.

 Copyright Law prohibits practitioners from

Code of Ethics committing copyright infringement. This law
is also to protect intellectual property such as
 Accuracy books periodicals materials prepared for oral
delivery. Etc
 Confidentiality
 Laws on national security. Communication
 Fairness practitioners are prohibited from inciting
people to sedition or rebellion against the
 Privacy
state.
 Moral Honesty
 Incites rebellion
 Intellectual Honesty
 Defames government or any of its
constituted authorities.
 Tolerance
 Disturbs or obstructs a lawful officer from
 Justice
performing its duties.
 Dignity
 Instigatesds or obstructs others to conspire
and meet together for unlawful purposes.
 And Decency on the practice of journalists
profession.
 Suggest or incites rebellious conspiracies.
 The KBP Kapisanan ng mga Brodkaster ng
 Contempt of the court. Liable to judicial
Pilipinas amend its ethics in 2007
contempt when they directly or indirectly
imede , obstruct or degrade the
administration of justice.
Accountabilities of communication practitioners.
 Overall, it can be deducted that a
 Libel. Article 353 of the Revised Penal Code communicators rights to free expression
defines Libel as a public and malicious ends when it violates the rights of others.
imputation of crime or vice versa of defect
real or imagery or any act to tending to
dishonor discredit or contempt a person.

 Cyber Crime Law. In 212 defamation

committed online has also became
punishable by law.

 Right to privacy. Protects people privacy.

Article 3 sec 5 states that the privacy of
communication and correspondence shall be
unviolable except upon lawful order from the