Learning Objectives

✓Identify the goals and scope of social work.

✓Demonstrate comprehension of the principles of

social work.

✓Discuss the core values of social work.

What comes to your mind
when you hear the words
“Social Work?”
Activity: Sama Ako!
Directions: Have you engaged in any social work?
What makes you say that it is social work? Describe
what you have engaged in and determine what makes
it a social work.
“Social work is a practice-based profession
and an academic discipline that promotes
social change and development, social
cohesion, and the empowerment and
liberation of people.”
Source: https://www.ifsw.org/what-is-social-work/global-definition-of-social-work/
Social work is a profession in which trained
professionals are devoted to helping
vulnerable people and communities work
through the challenges they face in everyday
life.
https://socialwork.buffalo.edu/admissions/is-social-work-right-career-forme/what-
is-social-work.html#
What are the main purposes of social work?

Social work is a helping profession. The primary

mission of the social work profession is to enhance
human well-being and help meet the basic and
complex needs of all people, with a particular focus
on those who are vulnerable, oppressed, and living
in poverty.
https://www.socialworkers.org/Careers/NASW-Career-Center/Explore-Social-Work/Why-Choose-
the-Social-Work-Profession#
5 Specializations in Social Work Careers
(Tulane University – School of Social Work, 2018)

1. Community Social Work

2. Child, Family, and School Social Work
3. Mental Health and Substance Abuse Social Work
4. Social Work with Military Members and Veterans
5. Social Work Administration

Source: https://socialwork.tulane.edu/blog/5-specializations-in-social-work-careers/
 Principles Relative to Respect for Human Rights

1.Upholding and promoting human dignity and well-being.

2.Respecting the right to self-determination.
3.Promoting the right to participation.
4.Creating each person.
5.Identifying and developing strengths.
 Principles Relative to Social Justice

1.Challenging discrimination
2.Recognizing diversity
3.Disturbing resources
4.Challenging unjust policies and practices
5.Working in Solidarity
 Principles Relative to Professional Integrity

1.Upholding the values and reputation of the profession

2.Being trustworthy
3.Maintaining professional boundaries
4.Making considered professional judgments.
5.Being professionally accountable.
Core Values

1. COMPASSION. The basis for someone to go out and become a

voice for the voiceless and a friend to the people who need it most.

2. SERVICE. Directs social workers to go beyond purely performing a

service for pay and allows them to be generous with their time.

3. SOCIAL JUSTICE. Basis of understanding the need to ensure that

everyone gets serviced and that everyone gets a share of what the
community possesses in material and non-material assets.
Core Values

4. DIGNITY AND WORTH OF THE PERSON. Provides determination and drive for social
workers to seek the marginalized in all forms without much regard as to whether the such
problem is self-inflicted or socially imposed.

5. IMPORTANCE OF HUMAN RELATIONSHIPS. Makes it possible for social workers to

do their job as most human situations they seek to address require collaborating with so
many other professionals and individuals with a stake in the issue.

6. INTEGRITY. Nothing can be accomplished without integrity.

7. COMPETENCE. This separates social caregiving from social work professional

practice.