Different Settings of Social Work

Government Setting

The government setting offers the widest space for a variety of social work services. Social workers may
work on-site at a government agency; at a non governmental agency whose client base is generated
from their relationship with a government agency; or in a contracting relationship as independent
consultants.

The range of government settings in which social workers practice include: Agencies serving children and
families, such as foster care agencies; Health care settings, including community-based clinics and
hospitals;

Schools:

Local correctional facilities;

Settings that serve older adults, such as nursing homes; and • Agencies serving military veterans and
active duty military personnel.

Government agencies social workers perform a variety of professional tasks and functions for the
government agencies, ranging from clinical practice to program management/administration. Functions
vary from agency to agency but essentially include:

Case management Individual and group therapy

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Psychosocial assessments
Treatment and discharge planning

• Substance use counseling and treatment Administration

Additionally, social workers play a significant role in formulating policies, and developing program
standards and guidance for federal programs. Social workers who practice in a government agency are
usually integrated into a broader continuum of services along with other disciplines such as physicians,
nurses, and substance abuse counselors.

In the Philippines, there are many other areas in which professional social workers play a vital role such
as in the implementation and monitoring of social welfare and social development projects under the
DSWD or those devolved to the local government (1 CHC) such as the National Household Tarnetion
Sustom for Poverty

In the Philippines, there are many other areas in which professional social workers play a vital role such
as in the implementation and monitoring of social welfare and social development projects under the
DSWD or those devolved to the local government (LGUS) such as the National Household Targeting
System for Poverty Reduction (NHTS-PR), Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program (4 Ps) and Kapit Bisig
Laban sa kahirapan- Comprehensive and Integrated Delivery of Social Services (KALAHI-CIDSS).
Particularly, professional social workers provide research-based evidence regarding effectiveness of
certain initiatives and socio-economic measures that are designed to alleviate, reduce, or eradicate
poverty the country.

Private Sectors Setting

In the private sector, particularly corporate setting, occupational social

work is practiced. The type of social work typically

generates interventions:
. Employee assistance program Labor union services

Human resource management offices

Community relations offices. • Organizational development initiatives

Civil Society Setting The civil society sector sees itself as champion of the people with regard to ensuring
accountability in government services; hence, social workers in civil society tend to work advocacies of
human rights and social justice. Their work ensures the delivery to concerned sectors and universal basic
needs that may range from physical needs, intellectual development, emotional development, social
growth, and spiritual growth.

Therefore, the social work practice promotes civil society in building strong social capital through the
following measures: . Mobilizing Community

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Advocacy and Public Communication

Conflict Transformation • Promotion of Social Cohesion and Solidarity

• Enabling Environment

School Setting

The school is a social service and within it lies, similar situation that arise
elsewhere:

Violation of human rights

Injustice

Violence

Sexual harassment

• Discrimination

Here, the social workers can facilitate school entry into community, understanding the community
engagement with community, selecting and implementing correctly social development intervention,
and exit strategically.

Below is a list of possible job functions within school setting.

Conducting bio-psychosocial assessments and social histories

Assessing students for substance use, support emotional functioning, barriers to academic

suicidal/homicidal ideation, and similar issues

systems, physical and performance, peer issues,

• developing and implementing treatment plans and discharge plans that support student self-
determination

• providing direct therapeutic services such as individual, family or group therapy

regarding specific issues • providing crisis management services, including assessing for safety

advocating for student services and students' best interests. providing case management services
including, but not limited to, referrals to

community resources, collaboration with other professionals

Providing trainings and workshops to teachers, school staff and parents; conducting home visits

Identifying and resolving ethical issues managing and supervising staff

contributing to a multidisciplinary treatment team.

Community Setting

A community consists and represents all kinds of social work services. It is the

locus of social work challenges. It is in the community where human rights of individuals and groups are
denied or violated; it is in the community where injustices are made and committed; it is in the
community where marginalization for individual and groups occur. (Segal, Gerdes, Steiner 2005).
THE SETTINGS, PROCESSES, METHODS AND TOOLS IN SOCIAL WORK

"The social work profession promotes social change, problem solving in human relationships and the
empowerment and liberation of people to enhance well-being "defined by the policy, Ethics and Human
Rights Committee of the British Association of Social Workers (2012). A. SETTINGS IN SOCIAL WORK

1.1 Private Sector Setting

Part of the economy, sometimes referred to as the citizen sector, which is run by private individuals or
groups, usually as a means of enterprise for profit, and is not controlled by the Stat

1.2 Private Sector Setting

Part of the economy, sometimes referred to as the citizen sector, which is run by private individuals or
groups, usually as a means of enterprise for profit, and is not controlled by the Stat

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school to provide services. School social workers are often called on to help. students, families, and
teachers address problems such as truancy, social withdrawal, over aggressive behaviors, rebelliousness,
and the effects of special physical, emotional, or economic problems
B. THE FIVE BASIC STEPS OF SOCIAL WORK PROCES (Mendoza: 2002)

1.1 Beginning

a. Assessment. A. Analysis and interpretation to reach an understanding of the client.

b. Planning

The link between assessment and intervention and 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. It allows the worker with the participation of the client, state his/her problems to give
solutions.

1.2 Middle

a. Intervention of Implementation plan

Concerned with the action that would solve the clients problems includes, series of activities that the
client and worker will undertake following an agreement.

1.3 Ending

a. Evaluation

What are your findings and opinions based on facts:

Continuous process of gathering information which can be utilized in undergoing assessment of

objectives intervention plans. It can be done in two levels: (1) on the level of direct practice with the
clients: and (2) on the level of program implementation b. Termination
Two terms used in relation to the termination of the client-worker relationship-transfer and referral. -
Transfer-process by which a client is referred by his or her social work to another worker. -Referral is the
act of directing a client to another worker/agency because the service that the client needs is beyond
the present agency workers competence

2. METHODS AND TOOLS IN SOCIAL WORK

1.1 Social Welfare Administration

administration of public and private social agencies and organized to achieved the full effect the services
for which they have been established

The Management of social agencies that is oriented to aid people more efficiently. This can be
categorized into: planning, organizing staffing, directing, coordination, reporting and

budgeting

1.2 Social Work Research.

Involves a critical inquiry and the scientific testing of the validity of social work organizations, function,
and methods in order to verify, generalized, extend social work knowledge and skill.

1.3 Secondary Social Work Methods

Social Action/Social Reform An organized effort with the aim of securing social progress and solving
mass social problems by influencing legislation or the administration of social services.
1.4 Community Organization A process by which community identifies the needs or objectives: rank
these needs: finds

the internal or extemal resources: takes actions and develops cooperative and collaborative

attitudes and practices in the community.

1.5 Social Group

A process and methods through which group life is affected by a worker who consciously guides the
interaction process toward the accomplishment of goals.

1.6 Casework Techniques

Hollis(1949-1964) identified the four major casework process:

-Environmental Modification-the steps taken by caseworker to change the environment of the

clients favor through the direct action of the worker

-Clarification-directed toward increasing the egos ability to see external realities more clearly to

understand the client's own feeling and behavior..

-Psychological support-demonstrated through caseworker's acceptance, confidence and interest in the

client to freely express their feelings and thoughts.
-Insight Development-the current passes experiences must be relieved in the therapeutic atmosphere in
order to bring irrationalities clearly into the surface and they can be recognized from the safety of the
treatment situation to the real life.

1.7 Traditional Method

Social Casework

A helping processes that consist of a variety of activities that may include the giving of material
assistance, referrals to another community facilities, rendering emotional and psychological sup[port
making suggestions advising, working out with their consideration and better understanding of the
casual connections between their present attitudes and mode of adjustment with their past experiences