DEFINING SOCIAL WOR

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SOCIAL WORK
 is the professional activity of :
• helping individuals, groups or
communities to enhance or restore
their capacity for social functioning

• to create societal conditions

favorable to their goals.
 SOCIAL WORK
• It is a practiced-based profession and an
academic discipline that promotes social
change and development, social cohesion and
the empowerment and liberation of people

• It is an interdisciplinary profession, which

means that it cover a number of areas in the
social sciences.
 SIX MAIN GOALS OF SOCIAL WORK
( Hepworth, 2013)
1. Help people enlarge their competence
and increase their problem solving and
coping abilities.

2. Help people obtain needed resources.

3. Make organizations responsive to people.

 SIX MAIN GOALS OF SOCIAL WORK
( Hepworth, 2013)
4. Facilitate interactions between individuals
and others in their environment.

5. Influence interactions between organizations

and institutions.

6. Influence social and environmental policy