SOCIAL WORK PRACTICE

WITH INDIVIDUALS AND

FAMILIES
COURSE
DESCRIPTION

• Examines the integration of cardinal

values and knowledge base into the
practice of Social Casework as a primary
method of Social Work. Specifically, it
will deal on the SW principles, process,
practice framework, models and
approaches, skills and techniques
necessary in applying the method to
emerging problems of individuals and
their families.
COURSE OBJECTIVES
1. Cognitive
1. Discuss basic theories of social casework, such as the person in his/her social
environment, casework relationship, selected practice framework as they apply to the
process of helping individuals and their families..
2. Explain the SW process of helping individuals and families and corresponding skills of
the social worker from Intake to Termination.
3. Differentiate between case management and social casework as processes of working
with individuals and their families experiencing difficulty because of gender bias,
calamitous events, culture-based violence, and others.
 
2. Affective
1. Discriminately apply values, principles of casework in the helping relationship between
clients and the social worker,
2. Utilize appropriately the professional self in the helping relationship.
 
3. Psychomotor
1. Demonstrate ability to engage clients in the helping relationship particularly in defining
and assessing the difficulty through the Intake interview.
2. Exhibit beginning competency in the use of selected practice frameworks, models and
approaches to respond adequately to emerging problems of individual clients and their
families such as gender-based violence, family conflict, role reversal, older persons
abuse, and similar situations,
3. Demonstrate reflexivity in process recording, journal writing, and preparation of case
studies
MIDTERM COVERAGE
Week 1 – Review the
Generalist perspective in the
process of helping clients as
a context in working with
individuals and their
families.
Week 5 – Define concepts in
working with individuals and
families
Week 2 – Review the
Generalist perspective in the
Week 3 – Review the Week 4 - Define concepts in
process of helping clients as
development of SW and its working with individuals and
a context in working with
facet on social casework. families
individuals and their
families. 
Week 7 – Discuss the Week 8 – Discuss the
Week 6 – Illustrate proper different theories & practice different theories & practice
application of the values framework and perspectives framework and perspectives
and principles of working relevant to assessment & relevant to assessment &
with individuals & families  interventions in working interventions in working
with individuals & families with individuals & families
Week 9 – MIDTERM
EXAMINATION
  Week 10 – Explain the meaning of helping in the Philippine context
Review Philippine realities as they affect individuals and families
 
Week 11 to 13 - Deliberate on the helping process as it applies to various
cases such as children survivors of calamities and other emergencies, women in
especially difficult situations, elderly. OFW and special cases (LGBTQR)
Week 14 – Examine selected cases of gender-based violence committed against
women & children with focus on assessment to lay the groundwork for a more
responsive gender-based case management.

Week 15 – Demonstrate beginning competencies in applying selected

FINALS models/approaches, use of agency programs and services and community
resources to respond to common and emerging problems of the Filipino family.

COVERAGE Show respect to feelings & behavior of clients with gender-based issues.

Week 16 - Identify the skills and techniques used by the social worker in
specific phases of the helping process.

Week 17 - Identify the roles & functions of social workers.

Evaluate the course in terms of content and methodology.

Week 18 – FINAL EXAMINATION
 
TOPICS

Historical foundation of
casework: Highlighting
Generalist SW Practice History of SW
contributions of
women and men

Definition of case
management in
Definition of casework relation to case work/ Social Functioning 
working with
individuals and families
• -Person, Place, Problem,
• Process

Casework Relationship:
Characteristics;
-Ethics, values,
-Professional use of Self Components: Reality,
principles of casework
Transference,
Countertransference
Theories, Practice
framework and
perspectives
relevant to
assessment and strengths-base ecosystems
interventions in
working with
individuals and
families

psychological
family system socio-behavioral
theories

anti-oppressive/ anti-discriminatory practice

culture/ethnic-
gender-based
sensitive
perspective
perspective
Helping process: Philippine context
• Definition
• Pagdamay. bayanihan and Kagandahang Loob

Common problems and issues faced by individuals and

their families in Philippine context. Considerations:
• Cultural orientation
• Religious affiliation
• Gender

- Economic/social status
• Helping process in social work in working with individuals and families

• A. Engagement

• - intake, relationship building. defining the Problem, negotiating contract

• B. Assessment

• -Tools (appropriate use of theoretical foundation to explain the dynamics of

individual behavior and his/her social environment; genogram, eco-map, rapid
assessment instrument, gender based assessment.)

• C. Goal Setting and Intervention Planning

• - goal formulation

• (Consider desirable goals vis-a -vis feasible goals)

• - objective-setting

• - Intervention Planning

 
 ***Task-centered Approach
• ***Crisis Intervention
***Helping Models & • ***Psychosocial Approach
***Functional Approach ***Problem-solving Model • ***Total Family Approach
Approaches
• ***Gender Responsive Case
Management

Types of Violence Methods and Tools in F. Termination (Coping with

E. Evaluation
committed against women. GRCM Disengagement)
• Roles and Functions, skills and
techniques applied by the
social worker in working with
individuals and families.
• Specific skills used in case
management.
• Synthesis of the course
• Processing and evaluation of
the course
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Jenson, J.M. (2011), Social Policy for Children and Families: A Risk and Resilience Perspective, CA: Sage Publishing

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Secombe, K (2012) Families and Their Social Worlds, 2nd ed. Boston: Allyn and Bacon

Zastrow, C. (2007) The Practice of Social Work: A comprehensive worktext. Belmont, USA: Thomson Brooks/Cole

Bloom, Owen & Covington.(2003) Gender Responsive Strategies; National Institute of Corrections and US Department of Justice

Manual on Gender Responsive Case Management by DSWD and UNFPA