Lesson 7:

Core Values
and
Principles of
 6 Core
Values of
 Core Values of
Social Work:
1. Right to self-
fulfillment
–derived from his/her
 Core Values of
Social Work:
2. Responsibility to common
good
– each person has the
responsibility as a member of
the society to seek ways of
Core Values of Social
Work:
3. Responsibility of the society
– the society has the responsibility
to facilitate self-fulfillment of the
individual and the right to
enrichment through the
Core Values of Social
Work:
4. Right to satisfy basic needs
– harmonious development of his/her
powers socially provided and socially
safeguarded opportunities for
satisfying his/her basic needs in the
physical, psychological, economic,
Core Values of
Social Work:
5. Social organizations required to
facilitate individual’s effort at self-
realization
– the society has the responsibility to
provide appropriate social resources,
it is the right of the individual to
Core Values of
Social Work:
6. Self-realization and contribution
to society
– social organization must make
available socially-provided devices
for need-satisfaction as wide in
range, variety, and quality as the
4 Social
Workers’
1. Concept of human potentials
and capacities – premised on the
belief that a person is inherently
endowed with potentials and
capacities.
2. Concept of social responsibility
– based on the notion that an
individual has the obligation to
contribute to the common good and
society.
3. Concept of equal
opportunities
– premised on the idea of social
justice, two elements of which
are fairness and equality.
4.Concept of social provision
– based on the premise that there
will always be everywhere with
unmet needs or problems which are
beyond their own capacity to solve.
7 Principles
of the Social
Principles of the Social
Work:
1. Acceptance
– involves respecting the
clients as they are under any
circumstances and
Principles of the Social
Work
2. Client’s participation in
problem-solving
-client also participates in planning
ways in resolving such problem,
identify resources to solve this, and
Principles of the Social
Work
3. Self-determination –
have the right to determine
their needs and how they
should be met.
Principles of the Social
Work
4. Individualization –
involves recognizing and
understanding the client’s own
unique characteristics and
Principles of the
Social Work
5. Confidentiality – the client
should be accorded with
appropriate protection, within the
limits of the law, from any harm
that might result from the
Principles of the Social
Work
6. Work Self-awareness
– social worker is conscious
about her/his role in making
use of her/his professional
Principles of the
Social Work
7. Client-worker relationship –
purpose to help the client in some
area of her/his social functioning in
which, at the present, s/he is
experiencing some difficulty, and
 Seatwork
Instruction: In a ¼ sheet of
paper, answer the given
question within 7 to 10
sentences only.
Question: Do you think that
everyone deserves a second
Lesson 8:
Professionals
and
Practitioners in
Learning
Objectives:
1. To show an understanding of
the roles and functions of social
workers.
2. To identify specific work
areas in which social workers
work.
Roles, Functions and
Competencies of Social
Workers
Roles:
1. Resource Broker
2. Social Broker
3. Mediator
4. Advocate
5. Enabler
6. Counselor/Therapist
R 1. Resource Broker
O Direct provision of material
L aid and other resources that
E will be helpful in reducing
situational deficiencies.
S
R 2. Social Broker
O Process of negotiating the
L “service jungle” for clients.
E This can also be associated
with “networking”.
S
R 3. Mediator
O Acting as an intermediary or conciliation
between persons or groups and the
L social workers engages her/his efforts to
E resolve disputes between the client and
other parties.
S
R 4. Advocate
Taking a partisan interest in the client
O and her/his cause and aims to influence
L another party in the interest of client
through arguing, bargaining,
E negotiating, and manipulating the
S environment on behalf of the client.
R 5. Enabler
Activities that the social worker
O engages in order to help the clients
L cope with the current situation and
eventually find strengths and resources
E within themselves to solve problems
S they encountered.
R
O 6. Therapist
Intends to restore, maintain, or
L enhance the client’s capacity to
E adapt to her/his current reality.
S
Functions
of Social
Function
s:1. Rehabilitative
Function
- refers to restorative,
curative, and remedial actions.
 Function
2. Preventives:
Function
- detects impending
imbalance between the
Function
s:3. Developmental
Function
- ascertains and strengthens
the full potential of
 Areas and
Specializatio
ns of Social
1. Child, Family, and School
Social Worker
-Deals with all sorts of situations
such as helping a child who has
experienced trauma or abuse.
2. Community Social Worker
-Helps plan, coordinate, and
organize efforts related to
infrastructure, volunteering,
and fundraising within specific
communities.
3. Hospice and Palliative Care
Social Worker
-Help or care for someone who
is seriously or terminally ill.
4.Medical and Health Social
Worker
-Works in hospital settings and
helps navigate the emotional,
financial, and physical struggles
that a serious medical condition
can cause an individual or family.
5. Mental Health and Substance
Abuse Social Worker
-Assist individuals who struggle
with addiction, substance abuse,
or mental health problems.
6. Military and Veterans Social Work
-Helps both the soldier and their
families with post-traumatic stress,
role adjustments, and the implications
and stressors of returning home, and
any substance abuse that may occur
as a result of combat.
7. Psychiatric Social Worker
-Provides therapy and assess the
psychiatric health of their parents.
8. Child Welfare
-Is concerned with the well-being of
children and youth through the
provision of programs and services for
their physical, social, psychological,
spiritual, and cultural development.
9. Adoption
-Legal process whereby a child
who is deprived of a birth family is
provided with substitute new ties
and permanent parental care.
10. Legal Guardianship
-Substitute parental care through
appointment of a legal guardian for
the child.
11. Foster Care
-A substitute temporary parental care
provided to a child by a licensed foster
family under the supervision of a
social worker.
12. Residential Care
-Provides temporary 24-hour residential
group care to children whose needs
cannot, at the same time, be adequately
met by their biological parents and other
alternative family care arrangements.
13. Family Welfare
-Is concern with the improvement and
strengthening of the family in meeting
its own needs.
14. Health
-Is concerned with continuously defining
and solving problems aimed at facilitating
and strengthening social relationships and
mutual adjustments between individuals
and their environment.
15. Corrections
-Is the Administration of penalty in such a
way that the offender is corrected, that is,
his/her present behavior is kept within
acceptable limits at the same time his
general life adjustment is modified.
16. Probation
-A process of treatment, prescribed
from the court for persons convicted of
offenses against the law.
17. School
-School social works exist primarily to
provide a helping service to those students
whose problems in school stern from
social and emotional causes which
interfere with their adjustment and
potential academic achievements.
 Seatwork 2: Essay
Question: Do you think that
Social Workers are vital
professionals to combat
some major problems here
in the Philippines? Why or