Brudrick Mica Dinglasan BS Social Work 2-1 SWK 1102

Chelsea Joy Ganan

Client Current Social Functioning Expected Social Roles

Jaime – 24 years old - Working as a construction worker,
but cannot provide the needs of the
family because of his salary is just
165 pesos per day makes it 2,475
per 15th day pay insufficient to
provide to his 4 children.
Lucy – 27 years old - A house wife, she is not capable to
take care of the children because
of the lack of money to provide the
medications for her children.
Jocelyn – 4 years old - A four year old child she should be
enrolled to a pre-school, but
because of poverty she can’t be
provided education.
Antonio – 1 ½ years old - A baby that is always sick and
cannot be provided the vitamins
and medications
Rosario – 1 year and 4 months old - The youngest of all the children
and the weakest of them all
- He should be capable to provide
the needs of his children because
he and his wife should do family
planning, so that they can provide
the needs of their children.
- It is her duty as a mother to attend
to the need of her children and not
just believe what the Priest told
her to do. It should be her main
priority to keep her children
healthy.
- She should be attending pre-school
- He should be well taken care of his
parents because as a baby he is
vulnerable of diseases
- She should be a healthy baby
because as an infant she is
vulnerable of all kinds of sickness

How would the functions of social work be applied in this case. Specify concrete actions to be done? (10 points)
1. Curative
o The Social worker should check what are the need of the Barangay Health Center in Malabon and if the health center is
incapable of proving the needs of baby Rosario she should be brought not to a private hospital that would only cause the family
debt she should be brought to San Lorenzo Ruiz Hospital or Hospital ng Malabon which are public hospitals.
 o The social worker should also conduct counseling to Lucy since because of her problems she is also incapable of thinking what
could be the best solutions for her children
2. Preventive
- The social worker should say to Lucy that Jocelyn should be on a public day care, so that she would be also taught of the basic
lessons on how to take care of herself and that of basic lessons that could help her of her everyday life

What are the possible methods of social work to be used in this case? Briefly explain why (5 points)

1. Social Case Work

This would be one of the best methods for this would be based on one to one relationship. A method is well
understood to be an orderly way of procedure and therefore it is always carried out towards achievement of a specific aim. This
method would help the social worker to understand what is the bottom-line or the pin point of the case where it started. The
social worker would talk to all the people that was involved from the parents of Rosario to the nurses and doctors that assisted
her during her consultation in the Barangay Health Center and to the Pharmacist that Lucy bought medications from and also
to the Medical Workers that assisted her at the hospital. All of those people should be interviewed to know what really
happened to the case of Rosario.