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Disciplines and Ideas
in the Applied Social
Sciences
Quarter1-Week 5-Module11
Goals and Scope of Social Work
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Disciplines and Ideas in the Applied Social Sciences – Grade 12
Quarter 1- Week 5- Module 11: Goals and Scope of Social Work
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Module 11
Goals and Scope of Social Work
As teachers, you are expected to give introductory knowledge to your students on how to
use this module. It is also important to supervise and record the student’s progress while
allowing them to manage their learnings at their own phase. Aside from this, you are
expected to encourage more and direct the students while accomplishing the activities in
this module.
To the Students:
Welcome to Discipline and Ideas in Applied Social Science Module on the Goals and
Scope of Social Work.
This module is made according to your learning needs. This aims to assist you while
studying away from school by providing you with worthwhile learning opportunities.
To the Parents:
Your role in the success of the accomplishments of module is important. As our
educational partner, your involvement is highly expected. You will also be guided on how
to help your child.
TITLE/TITLE DECRIPTION: Goals and Scope of Social Work
The aim of this module is to give direction and basic understanding of the Goals and Scope
of Social Work and to have a deep knowledge on the significance of Goals and Scope of
Social Work in our society. Further, it is expected to enable the learners to have the power
of comprehension of the broad perspectives of social work and various aspects which
indicate the significance of social work.
OBJECTIVES: After studying this module, you are expected to:
1. identify the Goals of Social Work;
2. explain the Scope of Social Work; and
3. express personal view about Social Work profession in the Philippine Setting.
Pre-test: STRETCH YOUR BRAIN
Case Analysis
Nancy Mae is a newcomer at the senior high school program of Santa Maria
College. Being new to the school, she is noted to be quiet and avoids interaction in people
often. After one semester, Nancy Mae’s behavior remains the same as she finds difficulty
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in building friendship. She chose to eat, to read, to study, and to walk alone. Worried by
the observation, her adviser Lea referred the case to the school’s social worker.
If you are the social worker, how will you handle the case? How will you administer
the circumstances? Write your answer on the box below.
B.
Directions: Read the statements carefully. Analyze whether the statements fit to a
description of Goals and Scope of Social Work. Answer yes or no to show
agreement or disagreement.
1. Social Work is a helping profession.
2. The concern of social work is to help people who are in need.
3. The goal of social work is to reduce suffering by solving people’s
problems.
4. Social Work provides democratic ideas and encourage
the
development of good interpersonal relations, resulting in proper
adjustments with the family and neighborhood.
5. The main goal of social work is to improve a society’s overall wellbeing.
GO OVER THIS CONCEPT
Social Work is a helping profession. Some individuals have personal or
family problems. Sometimes they cannot solve these by themselves. So
they need outside help. Such help comes from trained people. The
individual seeking help is known as a client and the trained person helping him is known
as a social worker
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DEFINITION OF SOCIAL WORK
Morales and Sheafor (1983) identified four areas of consideration:
1. In each helping situation, the social worker is concerned with enabling or facilitating
change. Interventions to improve the quality of life may appropriately occur as
part of the social work practice.
2. The social worker is in the business of helping people or social institutions, such
as family, change to enhance social functioning. It is not to focus on the whole
person but on social relationships.
3. Applying the social systems theory, social work can be viewed as a profession that
helps people interact more effectively with their social environment. The
focus is placed on the “interface or the meeting place or the transaction of person
and the environment” (William Gordon, as cited by Morales and Sheafor, 1983).
4. In helping to achieve their goals of improved social functioning, the social
worker must have handles in fortifying and securing the necessary resources to
attain the goals of the clients.
Source:
Cruz, Arleigh Ross D. Dela, RSW, MSW Carl G. Fernandez, PhD Cand Ma. Lourdes F.
Melegrito, and PhD Violet B. Valdez. 2016. The Padayon Series: Disciplines and
Ideas in the Applied Social Sciences. Quezon City: Phoenix Publishing House,
Inc.
GOALS OF SOCIAL WORK
The main goal of social work is to improve a society’s overall well-being, especially for the
most vulnerable populations.
Morales and Sheafor (1983) specified three (3) distinguishing goals of social work namely:
caring, curing, and changing. These goals are outlined and described below:
1. The Goal on Caring
Caring refers to the heart of social work and it focuses on the well-being or
the welfare and comfort of the individual and community.
2. The Goal on Curing
Curing refers to the aspect of treating people with problems in social
functioning
3. The Goal on Changing
Changing refers to the active participation of the social workers in social
reforms.
Activity 1. Connecting with Social Work Welfare Agencies
Instruction: Provided in the box is a list of Government Agencies and Non-Government
Organization which has Programs in alleviating people’s sufferings. What Goals of Social
Work were employed? Give details about the known programs and circumstances where
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each organization and agency are involved. You may refer to the previous discussion for
further details.
World Health Organization
Sagip Kapamilya GMA Kapuso
Foundation
UNICEF
BayaniJuan
Bantay Bata
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Department of Social Welfare and Development
The Philippine Red Cross
Activity 2 Let’s Find Out!
Instruction: From the listed agencies in Activity 1, name and explain different programs
where Scope of Social Work is depicted. Write your answers below.
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SCOPE OF SOCIAL WORK
The concern of social work is to help people who are in need so that they develop the
capacity to deal with their problems by themselves. It is both science and an art. Social
work is science in the sense that the knowledge taken from different disciplines form the
body of knowledge for a social worker and she/he uses this theoretical base for helping
people i.e., for practice. What theory postulates has to be put into practice. The required
capacity to do it is known as skill. Hence, professional social work with selected knowledge
and the set of social work values, has to be transformed into a professional service.
According to Morales and Sheafor (1983) Fields included in Social Work
1. Social Work as Primary Discipline
a. Adoption and services to unmarried parents
- Difficult decision to keep the baby or place it for adoption
- Applies both individual and group counseling to assist women in making
decisions
b. Foster Care
- Removing children from homes and placing them to foster homes temporarily
- Works with the parents, child and court to administer court decisions to
remove a child due to detrimental situations
c. Residential Care
- Group care home or a residential treatment center
- These are for children exhibiting anti-social behaviors that require intensive
treatment
d. Support in own home
- Support services to keep children in their own homes
- Counseling, family consultations, clients with appropriate institutions such as
day care centers and home maker services.
e. Protective Services
- Protecting the child from abuse, maltreatment, exploitation by parents
- Seeks to protect the child without infringing the rights of parents
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f.
Family Services
- Family counseling involves family case work, family group work and family
therapy
- Family life education strengthens family relationships through educational
activities to prevent family breakdown
- Family planning involves planning the number, spacing and timing of child
births to fit with their needs
- Make decisions about the patterns of reproduction towards enhancing quality
of life
g. Income maintenance
- Public assistance, financial aid to the poor.
- It includes cash grants, food stamps, general assistance such as hospital and
medical care, and supplemental security income.
- Social Insurance, social provisions that funded by employers and employees
through contributions to a specific program.
- Other forms, cash in kind benefits, emergency support funds, and other
resources that can be used by the poor for food and shelter
2. Social Work as an Equal Partner
a. Support for people in their own homes program
- Helping older people remain in their homes and linking them with community
programs such as health care, meals and home care services.
b. Support for people in the long term care facilities
- Refers to nursing homes or other group living facilities
c. Community Services
- Community Organization activities, gathering and analysis of data, matching
delivery of services to the population distribution, securing funds,
coordination with existing agencies and educating the general public about
the services
- Community planning, involvement of social workers with the physical,
economic and health planners in the long-range planning of communities
3. Social Work as a Secondary Discipline
a. Correctional Facilities, provide counseling and link them to the outside world,
provide support upon release
b. Industry, support to both managers and employees. Serves as basis for
employment
c. Medical and Health care, attend to the social and psychological factors
contributing to the medical condition of the patients.
d. Schools, facilitate the provision of direct educational and social services and
provide direct social case work and group work to selected students
- Act as pupil advocate focusing on the urgent needs of the selected students
- Consult with school administrators’ major problems toward a planned service
approach
- Consult with teachers about techniques for creating a free and motivating
climate for children by interpreting social and cultural influences
- Use of peers to help a troubled child
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- Organize parent and community groups to channel concerns
- Develop and maintain liaison between the school and social work
- Provide leadership in coordination of student services in guidance, clinic staff,
psychologists and attendants
ACTIVITY 3. Values Connection
Empathize!
Today, our world is suffering from health outbreak, COVID-19. Some lost his or her job,
left behind while, others were infected by the disease and died. Even in your households,
the impact of such outbreak can be felt. Observing and taking time to reflect under the
circumstances that we are in, in what way can you reduce the suffering of other people?
Your personal insights are important.
Task! Express Yourself. In the midst of COVID-19, there are people who are suffering
from Mental Health. Apply your creativity thru writing (doodles, art using photo editors,
etc.) a piece of advice by way of short saying which is personally crafted.
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Example: Your self-worth will never be a reflection of those who don’t love you. You are
worthy, you are loved. –Your Mental Health Advocate Facebook Page
Vocabulary:
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Empathy the action of understanding, being aware of, being sensitive to, and
vicariously experiencing the feelings, thoughts, and experience of another of
either the past or present without having the feelings, thoughts, and experience
fully communicated in an objectively explicit manner (https://www.merriamwebster.com/dictionary/empathy)
A principle is a general belief that you have about the way you should behave,
which influences your behavior
https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/principle
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Answer Key:
Pre-test: STRETCH YOUR BRAIN
Case Analysis
Nancy Mae is a newcomer at the senior high school program of Santa Maria
College. Being new to the school, she is noted to be quiet and avoids interaction in people
often. After one semester, Nancy Mae’s behavior remains the same as she finds difficulty
in building friendship. She chose to eat, to read, to study, and to walk alone. Worried by
the observation, her adviser Lea referred the case to the school’s social worker.
If you are the social worker, how will you handle the case? How will you administer
the circumstances? Write your answer on the box below.
Answers may vary but it must be relevant to the topic. Suggested Rubrics must be followed.
B.
Directions: Read the statements carefully. Analyze whether the statements fit to a
description of Goals and Scope of Social Work. Answer yes or no to show
agreement or disagreement.
Yes
1. Social Work is a helping profession.
Yes
2. The concern of social work is to help people who are in need.
Yes
3. The goal of social work is to reduce suffering by solving people’s
problems.
Yes
4. Social Work provides democratic ideas and encourage the development
of good interpersonal relations, resulting in proper adjustments with the
family and neighborhood.
Yes
5. The main goal of social work is to improve a society’s overall well-being.
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Activity 2 Let’s Find Out!
Instruction: From the listed agencies in Activity 1, name and explain different programs
where Scope of Social Work is depicted. Write your answers below.
Answers may vary but it must be relevant to the topic. Suggested Rubrics must be followed.
ACTIVITY 3. Values Connection
Empathize!
Today, our world is suffering from health outbreak, COVID-19. Some lost his or her job,
left behind while, others were infected by the disease and died. Even in your households,
the impact of such outbreak can be felt. Observing and taking time to reflect under the
circumstances that we are in, in what way can you reduce the suffering of other people?
Your personal insights are important.
Answers may vary but it must be relevant to the topic. Suggested Rubrics must be followed.
Task! Express Yourself. In the midst of COVID-19, there are people who are suffering
from Mental Health. Apply your creativity thru writing (doodles, art using photo editors,
etc.) a piece of advice by way of short saying which is personally crafted.
Example: Your self-worth will never be a reflection of those who don’t love you. You are
worthy, you are loved. –Your Mental Health Advocate Facebook Page
Answers may vary but it must be relevant to the topic. Suggested Rubrics must be followed.
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References
Cruz, Arleigh Ross D. Dela, RSW, MSW Carl G. Fernandez, PhD Cand Ma. Lourdes F.
Melegrito, and PhD Violet B. Valdez. 2016. The Padayon Series: Disciplines and
Ideas in the Applied Social Sciences. Quezon City: Phoenix Publishing House, Inc.
http://egyankosh.ac.in/bitstream/123456789/17109/1/Unit-1.pdf
https://www.slideshare.net/JoemMagante/introduction-to-social-work-76994041
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