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Social work and social welfare are based on three premises
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-that the person is important-that the person has personal, family and community issues resulting from interaction with others.-that something can be done to alleviate these problems and enrich the individual's life.
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The terms social work and social welfare
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Are often confused and sometimes used synonymously
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Social welfare
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Has a boarder meaning and encompasses social work, public wefare, and other related programs and activities.
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Social welfare in a board sense,
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encompasses the well-being and interests of large numbers of people, including theirphysical needs,educational needs, mental needs,emotional needs,spiritual needs, andeconomic needs.
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Social work
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Is a profession that has been developed to administer the very large and complex human service system put in place by society.
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Social work is a scientific discipline but,
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still requires a creative and artful approach to work with individuals, families, groups, and communities that are struggling with problems.
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Social work seeks to enhance the social functioning of individuals,
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singly, and in groups, by activities focused upon their social relationships which constitute the interaction between man and his environment.
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These activities can be grouped into 3 functions
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1. restoration of impaired capacity---2. provision of individual and society resources---3. prevention of social dysfunction.--- **provision (the act of providing)
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The main focus of the social worker
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Helping to improve people to improve their social functioning,their ability to interact and relate to others.
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Social work is an art, it requires great skills
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to understand people and to help them help themselves.
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Distinguishing characteristic of social work focus on the wholeness and totality of the person
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-emphasizes on the importance of the family in molding and influencing behavior.-use of the supervisory process provided for guidance and direction of inexperinced workers and for continuing growth of the experienced.-Social work has a unique educational program involving class work and practical field work experience, which go hand in hand.
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Continue: Distinguishing Characteristic of sw: --Traditional social work
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Emphasizes 3 basic processess:-clinical work-group work-community organzations
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Continue: distinguishing characteristic of sw---Some social workers believe there is only one social work process-that of problem solving related to social relationships.
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They state that the method is basically the same whether working with individuals, groups, or communities. the new approach is called generalist social work practice
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Continue: distinguishing characteristic of sw Social work has 2 distinctive professional bodie:
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NASW- National Association Social Work (small professional sw brought together to make the largest sw organization) -----CSWE- Council of Social Work Education (only accediting body)
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Traditionally, social workers have provided
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services and therapy for individuals, and families.recently, a focus on enrichment in living, for all people has surfaced
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