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Social Work - Social workers should respect,

promote and support peoples
- Social work profession promotes, dignity and right to make their own
social change, problem solving in choices and decisions.
human relationships and the 3. Promoting the right to participation
empowerment and liberation of - Social workers should promote the
people to enhance well- being. full involvement and participation of
Context of Social Worker people using their services.

- To help individuals fit better into 4. Creating each person as a whole

their enviroment and change the - Social workers schould b concerned
environment. with the whole person, within the
- Discovering the causes of poverty family, community and seek to
among individuals, eliminate the recognize all aspects of a person’s
causes and eliminate poverty from life.
society. 5. Identifying and developing
Goals of Social Work strengths
- Social workers should focus on the
1. The Goal on Caring strengths of all individuals, groups
2. The Goal on Curing and communities.
3. The Goal on Changing
Principles for Social Justice
Scope of Social Work
1. Challenging Discrimination
1. Child Development
2. Medical and Clinical Social work - Social workers has a responsibility to
3. Social Work Administration and challenege discrimination on the
Management basis of characteristics such as
4. International Social Work ability, age , culture, gender, sex,
5. Social Work as Community Organizer political opinions.
6. Woman Welfare
7. Crisis Intervention
8. Criminal Justice

Principles of Social Work 2. Recognizing Diversity

1. Human Rights - Social workers should recognize and

2. Social Justice respect the diversities of socities in
3. Professional Integrity which they practice

Principles for Human Rights 3. Distributing Resources

1. Upholding and promoting human - Social workers should ensure that

dignity and well-being resources at their disposal are
- Social workers should respects and distributed fairly, according to need.
defend each persons physical, 4. Challenging unjust policies and
psychological, emotional and practices
spiritual integrity and well being.
2. Respecting the rights to self - Social workers have a duty to bring
determination to the attention of their employers,
policy makers, politicians and the
general public situations
 6. Working in Solidarity 5. Importance of human relationships
- Social workers, individually, - it is possible for a social worker to
collectively and with others have a do their job as most human
duty to challenge social conditions. situations they seek to address
require collaborating with other
Principles for Professional Integrity
professionals
1. Upholding the values and 6. Integrity - is necessary in all
reputation of the profession endeavors.

- Social workers should act at all times in 7. Competence - is a very important

accordance with the values and value for social work because it
principles of the profession. separates social caregiving from
social work professional practice.
2. Being trustworthy
- Social workers should work in a way
The Roles, Functions and
that is honest and open. Competencies of Social Workers
3. Maintaining professional boundaries Roles of Social Workers

- Social workers should establish 1. ADVOCATE - The social worker fight

appropriate boundaries in their for the rights of those
relationships with service users and disempowered by society
colllegues. 2. COUNSELOR - Helps clients express
their problems, explore resolution
4. Making considered professional and applies intervention
judgements 3. MEDIATOR - The social worker
- Social workers should make intervenes in disputes between
judgements based on balanced and parties to help them find
considered reasoning compromisesand reach mutually
satisfying agreements.
5. Being Professionally Accountable 4. RESEARCHER - Evaluates practice
- Social wokers should be prepared to interventions and with others
account for and justify their evaluate program outcomes.
judgements. 5. EDUCATOR - Teaching people about
resources and how develop
Core Values of Social Work particular skills such as budgeting
1. Compassion - is an important value and discipline of childrens.
for all humankind. 6. CASE MANAGER - Is important for
complex situations and for those
2. Service - to go beyond purely homeless or elderly, physical or
performing a service for a pay and mental health.
allow them to be generous with 7. COMMUNITY CHANGE AGENT - The
their time. social worker participates as part of
3. Social Justice - is a basis for their a group or organization seeking to
understanding of the need to ensure improve or restructure some aspect
that everyone get serviced. of community service provision.
8. FACILITATOR - Social workers are
4. Dignity and worth of the person - it involved in gathering groups of
provides the determination and people together for a variety of
drive for social workers. purposes including community
development.
 9. BROKER - Is responsible for - Social workers in corrections are
identifying, locating and linking involved with programs concerned
clients to needed resources in a with the prevention of crime and the
timely manner. rehabilitation of criminals and
10. MANAGER - Social wokrers are provide counsel to people who are
better able to influence policy on probation or parole.
change and/or development.
Competencies of Social Workers
5. Schools
1. Think Critically - It provides vocational counseling,
school adjustment counseling,
2. Build and sustain relationships
behavioral management and
3. Good computer literacy personal problems.

4. Conduct research
5. Do social planning Rights, Responsibilities and
Accountabilties of Social Work
6. Perform Crises Management
What is the RIGHTS of Social Worker?
7. Analyze Policies
The Right to fulfill its PROFESSIONAL
8. Compassion
MANDATES and to live by its VALUES.
AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION OF What is the RESPONSIBILTIES of Social
SOCIAL WORK Worker?
Professional Social Work 1. To help Children
- College Degree 2. Assist life-threatening problems
- Master’s Degree 3. Aid people on overcoming
- Doctor’s Degree aaddictions

AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION 4. To promote social justice

1. Family and Child Welfare What is the ACCOUNTABILITIES of Social

Workers?
- This includes services to families in
situations that seriously disrupt 1. Clients
family life such as physical or mental 2. Colleagues
illness,unemployment, divorce, in
aid of improving clients family life. 3. Employers
2. Health 4. Professional Associations
- Social workers help patients and
their families in clinics, hospitals, 5. Law
and other healthcare facilities. Code of Ethics of Social Workers
3. Mental Health
- Social workers provide aid to people 1. Pro Bono Service - Social workers
suffering from mental and emotional are encourage to volunteer some
stress and many other services portion of their professional skills
similar the ones offered by medical without expecting anything.
social workers. 2. Social Workers challenge Social
4. Corrections Injustice - Equality of opportunity
 3. Dignity and Worth of the person - SETTINGS OF SOCIAL WORK
Social workers treat each person in a
1. Government Setting - in this setting,
caring and respectful fashion,
social work offers a widest space for
mindful of individual
a variety of social services.
differences,cultural and ethnic
diversity. Examples:
4. Importance of human relationship -  Mental and Health Institutions
Social workers understand that
 Pension Provider
relationship between and among
people are an important vehicle for  Justice and Correctional Institutions
change.
2. . Private Sector Setting - in this
5. Integrity - Social workers behave in setting, social work generate
a trustworthy manner. interventions in employee assistance
programs and human resources
6. Competence - Social workers
management offices.
practice within their areas of
3. Civil Society Setting - it sees itself as
competence and develop and
a champion of the people with
enhance their professional
regard to ensuring accountability in
expertise.
government services, hence, social
workers in civil society tend to work
for advocacies of human rights and
social justice.
Examples:
 Street Children
 Women and Environmental Issues
The Clientele and Audiences of Social  Migrants
Work  Gays and Lesbians
 Cancer Patients
Individual as Client of Social Workers
 Elders
• Social workers help them to find 4. School Setting - in this setting, the
appropriate housing, health care social worker is a liaison between
and social services. the school and students families,
and sustainer of effective
“Individuals or Families.”
communication among parents,
teachers, students to ensure that
students needs are being met.
Groups as Client of Social work
Other Responsibilities:
 Are people existing with similar or
common identity such as gay men  Behavioral intervention programs
and lesbians, migrants, abused  Truancy prevention programs
children and elders.  Sexual Education Programs
 Health Education Programs
Community as Client of Social work
5. Community Setting - it includes a
 It is focus on the transformation of wide array of approaches with
individuals or groups to achieve social different theories and emphasis that
well-being or social justice. social workers have to comfortably
Examples: Typhoon Victims, Places employ on two or three levels:
under State of Calamity
 Individuals, Families and 5. Evaluation - It is a more
Communities. comprehensive examination of the
impacts and influence of the services
Focus of Community Setting :
on the recipients is done to
1. Homophobia- encompasses a range determine the efficacy and
of negative attitudes and feelings effectivity of the program and
toward homosexuality or people services.
who are identified or perceived as
being lesbian, gay, bisexual or
Communication
transgender. Discipline of Communication
2. Ableism- is discrimination and social - It deals with how humans use verbal
prejudice against people with and non-verbal messages to create
disabilities or who are perceived to meaning in various contexts
have disabilities.
“Joking with a friend is considered normal
3. Islamophobia is the fear, hatred of, but joking with a grieving person may be
or prejudice against considered being insensitive.”
the Islamic religion
or Muslims especially when seen as Communication
a geopolitical force or the source - It is the process that bond human
of terrorism. together.
The Social Work Process Context
1. NEEDS ASSESSMENT - it is for - Is among the most essential aspects
individuals, groups, organizations in human communication.
and communities to systematically
identify the actual needs. Two Basic Symbols of Communications

This is done through : 1. Verbal Symbols - are all the words in

a language, which stand for a
 Interviews particular thing or idea.
 Observation 2. Non-verbal Symbols - are anything
 Survey we communicate without using
2. INTERVENTION/ PROGRAM DESIGN words such as facial expressions,
- In this step, the results of analysis gestures, posture, colors, vocal
of the collected information become tones, appearance, etc.
the basis for planning, identifying
the kinds of social work needed to Goals of Communication
deliver efficient and effective 1. Expressing one’s needs and wants
services. 2. Transferring or conveying
3. Implementation - In this step, social information
work may decide and focus on the 3. Establishing social closeness
prevention that are supported by 4. Sustaining relationship with others
social policy of any form. 5. Facilitating social etiquette
Example: Heavy Drug Addiction Basic Elements of Communications Process
4. Monitoring - It is accompanied by a 1. Sender-Receiver - Communication
detailed process documentation to means that the sender and the
be able to explain what is happening receiver get involved in
on both sides, the social work and
on the recipients of services.
 communication because they have 2. Interpersonal Communication - This
ideas and feelings to share. occurs on one to one basis usually in
an informal, unstructured setting.
2. Message - Is made up of the ideas
and feelings that the 3. Intercultural Communication - This
senders/receivers want to share. is an interpersonal communication
3. Channels - Are routers traveled by a that occurs between or among
message as it goes between the members of different cultures or
senders/receivers. people who are enculturated
 Sound and Sight - are primariliy differently.
channels in face to face
4. Interviewing - It makes use of a
communication, and even in not
series of questions and answers
face to face.
usually involving two people or
 Mass Media - the channels may be
groups.
radio, records, television,
newspapers, magazines, etc. 5. Small Group Communication - It
4. Feedback - is a response of the occurs when a small group of people
receiver to the sender and vice meets to solve a problem.
versa.
6. Mass Communication - The sender-
5. Noise - it keeps a message from
receiver(speaker) sends a message
being understood or accurately
(speech) to an audience in a highly
interpreted.
structured manner.
Two Types of Noise
 External Noise - Is any noise that
comes from the environment that Roles, Functions and Competencies
keeps the message from being heard of Communicators/ Journalists
or understood. What is the Role of
Communicators/Journalists?
“Is to make available information and
evidence to inform the public about issues
 Internal Noise - It occurs in the that matter to them in the most neutral
minds of the senders and receivers way possible.”
such as prior experience,absent-
mindedness, feeling,or thinking of What is the Function of
something other than the Communicators/Journalists?
cummincation taking place. “To collect and document information,
6. Setting - Is essentially the context facts, and opinions and present them for
where communication occurs, it may public analysis.”
be the venue, formal or informal
seating arrangements, attire, use of What are the Competencies of
sound system, etc. Communicators/Journalists?
6 Levels of Communication 1. Listening and Reading Skills - Are
1. Intrapersonal Communication - This data and information gathering skills
refers to communication that occurs necessary for accurate writing and
within us, this involves feelings, speaking.
thoughts and the way we look at 2. Writing and Speaking Skills - Are
ourselves. necessary for communication as
tools, poor writing and speaking
 skills can distort the message Rights, Responsibilities and
regardless of the good intentions of Accountabilities of Communicators/
the communicator.
Jounalists
Areas of Specialization of
What is the Rights of
Communicators/Journalists
Communicators/Journalists?
1. Advertising and Marketing - Can
 Protection of freedom of expression.
work as copy writer, account
executive, sales manager, media  Safeguarding the confidentiality of
planner, media buyer, creative journalistic resources.
director, sales representatives.
What is the responsibilities of
2. Communication Educators - Can
Communicators/ Journalists?
work as college or university
professors and may also serve as - To ensure that citizens have
speech communication department convenient access to all media which
chairpersons, language arts is subject to just and fair law.
coordinators, elementary and - Universally recognized principles of
highschool speech teachers. human rights.
3. Broadcasting - Can include
What is the Accountabillity
opportunities to work as
Communicators/ Journalists?
broadcasting station manager,
director of broadcasting, film and - To safeguard the integrity of media
tape librarian, etc. and protection of the general public.
4. Journalism - Can work as reporter,
Code of Ethics of Communicators/
editor, newscaster, author, copy
Journalists
writer, script writer, publisher and
interviewer. National Union of Jounalists – (NUJ)
5. Public Relations - Can work as 1. At all times, upholds and defends
publicity manager, advertising the principle of media freedom, and
manager, marketing specialist, press the right to public to be informed
agent, and others.
2. All information disseminated is
6. Theater and Performing Arts. - honestly conveyed, accurate and fair
Graduates can work as performing
3. Differentiates between fact and
artists, script writer, producer,
opinion
director, and theater professor.
4. Protect the identity of resources
7. Communication in Government and
who supply information in
Politics - Can work as public
confidence and materials gathered
information officer, legislative
in the course of his/her work
assistant and campaign director .
5. Shall normally seek the consent of
8. International Relations - Can serve
an appropriate adult when
as on air international broadcasting
interviewing or photographing a
talent, corporate representsative,
child for a story about his/her
translator, student tour coordinator
welfare
and host/hostess for foreign
dignitaries. 6. Avoids Plagiarism