Social Work With Groups

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Social work

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The professional activity of helping individuals, groups, or communities to enhance or restore their capacity for social functioning and to create societal conditions favorable to their goals.

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Social Welfare

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Goal is to fulfill the social, financial, health, and recreational requirements of all individuals in a society. Seeks to enhance the social functioning of all age groups,

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Social welfare Programs

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Foster care, adoption, day care, head start, probation and parole, public assistance programs (food Stamps) public heath nursing, sex therapy, suicide counseling, recreational services....

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Social work profession

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Exists to provide humane and effective social services to individuals, families, groups, communities, and society so that social functioning may be enhanced and the quality of life improved.

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Enabler

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A workers helps individuals or groups to articulate their needs, clarify and identify their problems, explore resolution strategies, select and apply a strategy and develop their capacities to deal with problems more effectively.

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Broker

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Links individuals and groups who need help with community services

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Advocate

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An active directive role in which the social worker represents a client or a citizen's group. Collecting info arguing the validity of the clients need and request and challenge the institutions decision not to provide services

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Empowerer

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The process of helping individuals, families, groups, organizations and communities increase their personal, interpersonal socioeconomic, and political strength and influence.

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Activist

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Seeks basic institutional change; often the objective involves a shift in power and resources to a disadvantaged group. Concerned about social injustice, inequity, and deprivation

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Mediator

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Involves intervention in disputes between parties to help them find compromises, reconcile differences, or reach mutually satisfactory agreements.

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Negotiator

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Bring together people in conflict and seeks to bargain and compromise to find mutually acceptable agreements.

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Educator

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Gives information to clients and teaches them adaptive skills.

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Systems perspective

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Keys concepts are wholeness, relationship, and homeostasis.

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Medical Model

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Concepualizes emotional and behavioral problems as mental illness. Believe that the disturbed persons mind is affected by internal genetic, disease, disorder.

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Ecological Model

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This approach integrates both treatment and reform by conceptualizing and emphasizing the dysfunctional transactions between people and their physical and social environments. Give attention to both internal and external factors.