Applied Social

Sciences
Presented by: MR. JONATHAN C. PILLA

DIASS HUMSS 12
Learning Objectives:
• Understand the professional and practitioners in
specific work areas in which social workers work
• Articulate the different roles, functions,
competencies, rights, responsibilities and
accountabilities of a social worker.
• Appreciate the role of a social worker in the
community as stated in their ethical standards.
What are the core
values of social
work?
Guide Questions:

1.What does DSWD stands

for?
 
Department of Social
Welfare and Development
The Philippines' Department of
Social Welfare and Development
is the executive department of
the Philippine Government
responsible for the protection of
the social welfare of rights of
Filipinos and to promote social
development
Picture Analysis:
Slum Area
Guide Questions:
 
1.What common problem do you
notice based on the picture
presented?
 
2.Who among our professional you
think can help solved such
problems?
Professionals and Practitioners
in Social Workers
 
Social Work
 
1.Roles
2.Functions
3.Competencies
 
Formulate your own job description
indicating the major function/task you will
perform
 
Based on the needs of your barangay a
barrio, what possible indicators will you look
at to determine whether the objectives of
your work are achieved?
 
Act on how you will work with other client
systems such as individuals and groups.
(Role Play/ Simulation)
The teacher will ask if they
have been helped by the
social worker?
 
Follow-up question:
 
How important is the role of
social worker in helping
people in times of
calamities?
The teacher will ask if they
have been helped by the
social worker?
 
Follow-up question:
 
How important is the role of
social worker in helping
people in times of
calamities?
Call 2 to 3 students to summarize the lesson
according to the following

guide questions:
 
Give the functions and roles
of a social worker.

Describe the competencies

of a social worker.
Expected answer:
 
There are specific
functions, roles and
competencies of social
work which provide social
protection of the socially
disadvantaged people of
the community.
Paper-Pencil Test:

• Enumerate the
functions of a Social
Worker?
 
• Explain each function.
Assignment:
Conduct an interview to your
municipal/city/provincial/national
social worker and ask the following
questions:

1.What social problems did he/she

encounter in the barangay?
 
2. What interventions did he/she
give to help solve the problem.