SOCIAL WORK

SOCIAL WORK
• Is a professional activity of helping individuals, groups or
communities to enhance or restore their capacity for societal
conditions favorable to their goals (NASW, 1973)
• It is a hands on profession that strives to help people and
families deal with their different problems.
• According to International Federation of Social Workers,
social work is a practice-based profession and an academic
discipline that promotes social change and development,
social chohesion, and the empowerment and liberation of
people.
• Social work is an interdisciplinary profession, which means
that it covers a number of areas in the social sciences such
as psychology, sociology, political sciences, criminology,
economics, ecology, and anthropology
SOCIAL WORKER
are responsible for helping individuals, families, and groups of
people to cope with problems they're facing to improve their
patient's lives.
SKILLS Specializations
• Good Listener • Family, child or school social work
• Social Perceptiveness • Public health social workers
• Good Speaker • Addictions and mental health
• Critical Thinking social workers
• Coordination
• Reading Comprehension
• Service Orientation
• Writing
• Complex Problem Solving
• Judgment and Decision Making
GOALS OF SOCIAL WORK
Help people enlarge their competence and increase their
problem solving and coping abilities
Help people obtain needed resources
Make organizations responsive to people
Facilities interactions between individuals and others in
their environment
Influence interactions between organizations and
institutions
Influence social and environmental policy
SCOPE OF SOCIAL WORK
• Enhancing Social Function - Practitioners must enable
individuals to achieve a reasonable degree of fulfillment
and to function as productive and contributing members
of the society
• Remedying Personal Dysfunction - Practitioners must
recognize that problems at the interface between people
and these environments are not exclusively caused by
environmental deficiencies
• Promoting Social Justice - Practitioners must devote their
time in providing services and obtaining resources for
their clients
VALUES
• People should have access to the resources they need to meet life's
challenges and difficulties as well as access to opportunities to realize
their potentialities throughout their lives
• Interactions with people as they pursue and utilize resources should
enhance their dignity and individuality
• transactions with people in the course of seeking and utilizing resources
should enhance their independence and self-determination
• Realization of the above values should be mutual responsibility of
individual citizenz and of society
PRINCIPLES
• Purposeful Expression of Feelings
• Controlled Emotional Involvement
• Acceptance
• Individualization
• Non-Judgemenatal Attitude
• Client Self-Determination
• Confidentiality
FUNCTIONS OF SOCIAL WORK
- Refers to the natural activity of social work or the statements
of how social work operates.

- According to Proff. P.D. Mishra social work operates to assist

individuals in adjusting to institutional frame work of the
society and attempts to modify the institutional frame work
itself in appropriate areas
4 MAJOR CATEGORIES
 Curative Function

 Correctional Function

 Preventive Function

 Developmental Function
CURATIVE FUNCTION
The services provided under curative functions are medical and
helth services, services relating to psuchiatry, child guidance,
child welfare services, services for the handicapped or
disablein the form of protection and rehabilitaions
CORRECTIONAL FUNCTION
The correctional function of social work has three broaded areas, such as:

A. Individual reform service which includes prison reform, probation,

parole and other related services

B.Services for improving social relationship which includes family

welfare services, school social work, industrial social work etc.

C. Services for social reform that includes employment services,

preventation of commercial sex workbeggary prohibition services and
removal of untouchability etc.
PREVENTIVE FUNCTIONS
This type of function basically deals with the
services relating to the preventation of problems like
insecurity, unlawfulness ignorance sickness etc.
DEVELOPMENTAL FUNCTION
it includes the tasks of socioeconomic development activities such
as: education, recreational services, urban and rural development
programmes and programmes of integration etc which are primarily
concerned with the development of individuals, families, groups and
communities.
3 BROAD INTERDEPENDENT AND
INTERRELATED CATEGORIES:
Restoration of social functioning

Provision of resources

Prevention of social dysfunction