How Do Social Workers Practice Social Work?

Social work is a unique field because of the multitude of settings that a social worker can practice social services. The typical setting that is assumed social work is present is in the Department of Child & Families Services. However, social workers can also work and practice in host setting such as hospitals, schools, and shelters. The staffs in a host setting typically have different backgrounds other than social work such as nouns or administrators. For most the part in a host setting, the work environment entails a large scale of people who are not typically social workers. Host settings are organizations which social workers are hired as an addition to the agency. (Oberhofer & Simon, 1991). Social worker roles are because they are required to collaborate with other professions who are significant to the overall mission and goals of the clients. In a host setting, the social worker duties are to learn the culture, language, and mission of the organization that is implemented by the agency. It is important to know goals, policies, and restrictions that apply in that particular agency (Kirst-Ashman, 2001). All components are interrelated and when executed correctly all sectors will succeed in their roles and continue to strive towards agency goals. According to the system theory “all parts of the organizations relates to all other parts…Each part is important because all parts function tighter in order to provide services” (Kirst-Ashman, 2001, p. 129). Therefore, the role of the …show more content…
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