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Unit 3 Lesson 1 Identify Roles, Functions and Skills of Social Worker in Each Social Work Settings

The document discusses the roles, functions, and skills of social workers in different settings. It identifies roles like enabler, helper, facilitator, and advocate. Functions for group work include program development, record keeping, and evaluation. Functions for community organization include fact finding, program development, and establishing standards. Key skills for group work and community organization are also outlined, such as relationship building, participation, communication, and resource utilization. Students are expected to learn and apply the roles, functions, and skills of social workers in various welfare settings.

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Unit 3 Lesson 1 Identify Roles, Functions and Skills of Social Worker in Each Social Work Settings

The document discusses the roles, functions, and skills of social workers in different settings. It identifies roles like enabler, helper, facilitator, and advocate. Functions for group work include program development, record keeping, and evaluation. Functions for community organization include fact finding, program development, and establishing standards. Key skills for group work and community organization are also outlined, such as relationship building, participation, communication, and resource utilization. Students are expected to learn and apply the roles, functions, and skills of social workers in various welfare settings.

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UNIT 3

Lesson 1

Identify Roles, Functions and Skills of Social Worker in each Social


Work Settings

Learning Outcome

At the end of the semester, students are expected


1. Identify and discuss the roles, functions and skills of social worker in
various social welfare settings
2. Able to apply the roles, functions and skills of social worker in various
social welfare settings

Pre-test

Direction. Discuss briefly in your own understanding and cite an example.


1.Roles
2. Functions
3. Skills

Roles – the behavior expected of an individual which he assumes in a specific in


his relationship with others thus person could play different roles.

Enabler – the worker who makes change possible by supplying the client with
the means, the knowledge or the opportunity to be or to do something.

Helper -- helping community groups identify their problems/needs and take


effective action on their planned goals and objectives to solve their problems
and meet their needs and aspirations

Facilitator – the person who helps remove the obstacles to the exercise of
rational thinking or learning by the use of non-formal adult teaching and
learning methodologist and strategies.

Educator – provide new knowledge to the member; interprets meaning of


data/behavior

Motivator – motivates members to learn new vocational and social skills and
to move on to new activity.

Guide – guiding the community groups in the process through difficulties


encountered.

Initiator – initiating acting as broker between groups, the client community and
outside resources

Broker – the worker who seeks and secures resources that the client needs
or matches the client with the resources.

Advocate – the social worker as a partisan who is exclusively serving the


interest of a client or a citizens group some of the task involve are: providing
leadership for collective for arguing the correctness of the client’s need and
request, and for challenging the institution’s decision not to provides the service
requested.

Consultant -- providing expert knowledge and information to achieved


planned goals and objectives

Intervenor – intervening for and on behalf of the people for their participation
and involvement in the formulation of social welfare programs, services &
projects intended to benefit or affect them or when their interest and welfare
are in jeopardy

Mediator - mediate between group and agency

Observer - keeps track of progress/development of individuals through group


activities

Supervisor -- supervise group activity to attain goals and objectives

Information giver -- provides information on agency programs & services and


resources the group can avail of in the agency and community

Organizer -- organizing groups to solve/meet the group members’


problems/needs/interests

Planner - sits as planner for the social welfare/ social services sector in planning
bodies as the barangay, municipal, provincial, regional and national development
councils

Researcher – makes research on current problems, needs and issues as basis


for action planning

Functions

Group Work Functions

As gleaned from our practice, these are the functions of a social group worker:
1.) development of appropriate program media for various types of groups;

2.) establishment of standards for social group work services and eligibility
requirements;

3.) keeping of process records of group activities/discussions for learning tools


and research;

4.) networking with other welfare agencies/practitioners and creating public


support system; a

5.) evaluating the results of the program against goals and objectives

C.O Functions

The following are the functions of C.O worker according to Arthur Dunham;

Fact finding - to secure and maintain an adequate factual basis for


sound planning

Program development -- to initiate, develop new programs & services


and modify or terminate social welfare programs and services that had
become irrelevant

Establishment of standards - to establish, maintain and improve social


welfare standards, and to increase the effectiveness, efficiency and economy
of operation of social welfare agencies

Coordination -- to improve & facilitate inter-relation- ships and to


promote coordination between organizations, groups and individuals
concerned with social welfare programs and services

Education -- to develop better public understanding of social welfare


needs, problems, resources, objectives, services, methods and standards

Support & participation -- to develop adequate public support of and


public participation in social welfare activities

Skills

Skills of Group Work

The following skill are required of a social group worker according to Trecker. 6
and 7 were added as needed by our social group workers for groups in
Philippine setting.

1. Skill in establishing purposeful relationship


 ability to help individuals in the group to accept one another and
actively participate in attaining the group’s goal and objectives.

2. Skills in analyzing the group situation

 ability to judge the development level of the group, what the group
needs and how quickly the group is expected to move;

3. Skills in effecting meaningful participation in the group

 ability to motivate group members express their ideas, work out


objectives and clarify immediate goals

4. Skills in dealing with group feeling

 ability to control his/her own feelings about the group and able to
study each new situation with a high degree of objectivity

5. Skill in program development’

 ability to guide group thinking so that interests and needs will be


revealed and understood;

6. Skill in dealing with social values and cultural patterns.

 ability to recognize social values and cultural patterns that may


impede the development of the group and to appropriately deal
with them without creating conflicts/ misunderstanding;

7. Skill in differential diagnosis and treatment.

 ability to recognize the differential problems/needs of some group


members and use of groups in focusing the group process to meet
the special needs of said members;

8. Skill in using agency and community resources

 ability to locate and acquaint the group with various useful


resources which can be used by them for program purposes;

9. Skill in Evaluating
 Ability to record the development process among the members
and the entire group.

Skills are required of a C.O worker

1. Working with people/ one on one and small groups

2. Organizing

3. Verbal and written communication

4. Committee work

5. Leadership

6. Administration

7. Interviewing

8. Research

9. Planning and policy formulation

10.Strategy design and implementation

11.Lobbying

12.Recording

13.Social education and action

14.Inter-group relationship

15.Coordination
1 Direction. Individual will present their roles and functions in
the class and give their top three (3) skills and
show sample in the class. (3 minutes each student)

2 D i r e c t i o n . G r
5 m i n u t e s t o p r e
profession apply the roles, function and skills of a social worker.

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