Helping process which consists of variety of activities.

Consists of a variety of activities that may include the giving of material assistance, referrals to other community facilities

Who said that helping process which consists of a variety of activities that may include the giving of material assistance, referrals to other community facilities, rendering emotional and psychological support.

Who said that process used by human welfare agencies to help individuals to cope more effectively with their problems of social functioning.

A way of delivering services where a social worker assumes responsibility for assessing with a client what services he needs, and helps obtain those services for the client.

The social worker assumes the role of:

Requires knowledge of the available resources, skills in utilizing these resources, in the modification of existing ones or the establishment or creation of new ones.

Assumes total responsibility and is accountable for the well-being of the client while avoiding doing for the client that which the client is capable of.

A man, woman, or child who finds himself or is found to be in need of help in some aspect of his social emotional living, whether the need is for some tangible provision.

As soon as he/she begins to receive help, he/she is called a?

It is some need which has not been met and has caused some disequilibrium or difficulty in the individual’s social functioning or which threatens or has grossly affected the adequacy of his living situation of the effectiveness of his efforts to deal with it.

It is the social welfare agency which has been set up by the government or a group of concerned citizens to deal with social, personal problems of individual human beings who are experiencing some problems in the management of their personal lives.

In this case, the casework or helping process, consists of a series of actions, changes, or functions that are intended to bring about the goal previously agreed upon.

The casework process is set in motion when an _____ with a _____ comes to a _____ where a professional representative, the social worker, engages him in a working relationship and together, they embark on a ______

The person is a ____ being.

It is the dynamic organization within the individual of those psychosocial systems that determine his unique adjustment to his environment.

The following are structures of personality: These are

Life energies that seeks satisfactory outlets.

Present at birth.

Reservoir of instincts.

Contains the person’s instinctual drives of which he is not aware and source of psychic energy.

It has no knowledge of objective reality and it only knows the inner world of subjective experience.

It concerned primarily with right or wrong, hence it is called the conscience.

Produce behavior in accordance with the moral standards of the society to which the individual belongs.

Mediate between instinctual demands and the conditions imposed by the objective world.

Mediates the wishes of id, the standards of superego, and conditions imposed by reality.

The ego has two functions:

According to one psychosocial school of thought, a person’s effective performance in promoting his wellbeing depends in large part on the?

Depending on whether ____ so is the ability of the person to take some action, inner or overt, that is directed and appropriate towards resolving the problem he faces or toward achieving the desired goal.

The structure and functioning of personality are the products of inherited and constitutional equipment in continuous interaction with the physical, psychosocial, and social environment the person experiences.

A person at any stage of his life is not only a product of nature and nurture but also and always in the process of being in the present and becoming in the future.

The person’s “____” behavior is shaped and judged by the expectations he and his culture have invested in the status and the major role he carries.

Implications for Casework Treatment

It is the sum total of the cultural patterns associated with specific behavior and attitudes which a person assumes in a specific situation in his/her relationship with others.

There are three aspects in the performance of a role:

It is expected by the norms and expectations of society.

Example: a man as a husband and father is expected to be the breadwinner and head of the family.

It is what the person ascribes to himself in a specific role.

Example: if a man believes that as a head of the family, he should be the breadwinner and he will try to be so and there will be no conflict between the subjective and prescribed roles.

The person performs is that what he thinks the role entails.

If he has the capacity and capability to execute these roles faithfully he will indeed be functioning adequately, this is he enacts the role.

In making an assessment of person’s behavior in relation to his his/her problem, the worker should not forget the ____ in which a specific role is played.

Social workers should be on the alert to spot the ___.

Signs of the traditional attitudes:

Any kind of pressure that affects a person in his daily life, most especially when he is facing a problem which he cannot handle by himself.

It is a state of strain on the body or the mind, sometimes on both.

Social Work’s Stress Components:

Threats which arise in the person’s body, his physical environment, the functions of social systems, and his net work of social roles.

Stress factoris likely to threaten some value in which the person holds or subscribes to.

Person under stress reacts in certain ways to the situation according to his nature.

Whatever his mode of adaptation the unconscious goal is to maintain that level of functioning which existed prior to the occurrence of the stress.

The primary purpose of his/her behavior is to gain satisfaction, to avoid or dissolve frustration, and to maintain his balance in movement.

Mode of adaptation are

Physical or verbal projection of angry feelings on others.

May be manifested by physically moving away from the problem or resorting to substances that will make one forget the presence of a stressful situation.

Entails the entrance into a relationship with another person.

Refers to a person’s taking action based on his thoughts and feelings. These are what prompts him to act.

The client’s capacity is three types:

He is able to relate to, have social connection with another person. It refers to the client’s.

Relatively the easiest to assess. Usually, the signs are visible and can be spotted right away.

Four elements found in a person’s social intelligence capacity:

Refers to the person’s capability to distinguish or discern, to know and understand, and the reality of his situation.

It is an ability that implies clear and effective communication according to what the person feels, senses, thinks, and does.

It is an indication of the person’s adaptive and integrative functioning.

A person has this capacity when he is motivated, interested, and participates actively in the solution of his problem.

Combination of three capacities.

In casework, the principal client is the?

Within the purview of casework are those which vitally affect or are affected by a person’s social functioning.

The problems within the purview of casework are those which vitally affect or are affected by a person’s social functioning. It may be:

Physical, psychological, social, which causes the person to be ineffective or disturbed in carrying out his social roles.

Refers to agencies which provide primarily social work services.

It is an organization specifically set up to provide social work services.

Social agencies are classified according to three items:

Possible sources of support of an agency are taxes, donations/contributions from individuals, or a combination of two.

Agencies supported from taxes Ex: DSWD

Donations and contributions of private individuals or groups. Ex: (NGOs).

Agencies are thus divided into

Manned by social workers, the identification of the staff is with its social work purposes.

Social workers working in such an agency derive their authority and responsibility from the host agency.

In these settings, social work is in an auxiliary position.

Whether an agency is specialized or multi-functional, the purpose for which it has been organized, that is, what it is set up to remedy, prevent, promote, or develop will determine the social worker’s focus and emphasis, the services he has to offer, and the goals toward which he works.

Who is considered as the originator of problem-solving framework in social work which has influenced social-work thinking. (Social Casework: A ProblemSolving Process).

The social work helping process consists of the following sequential steps which are followed when working with any type of client system, i.e., individual, family, small group community: (APIET)

It is essentially a cognitive process, a rational procedure involving a series of steps to be followed sequentially.

It is the context in which we use the problem-solving process, is not just a cognitive process since it involves a relationship between two parties: worker and client system.

Social work helping process involves a relationship between two parties:

Guide in social work relationship in helping process particularly in relation to the handling of feelings and attitudes that inevitably enter the picture.