The Role of a Social Worker
The role of a social worker
What is a social work? “Social work is a profession which promotes social change and problem solving in human relationships and the empowerment and liberation of people to enhance wellbeing. Utilizing theories of human behaviour and social systems, social work intervenes at the point where people interact with their environments. Principles of human rights and social justice are fundamental to social work”. (Understanding Social work, Neil Thompson, 2005, page 13, 2nd Edition)
Social work is recognized as a specialist profession with a sustainable universal value, expertise and knowledge foundation. Over many years the social work services have provided these facilities to vulnerable individuals which have then enabled the success of future generations, turning threatened dysfunctional members of society into well balanced, functional happy people. Social workers also have a fundamental role in working with individuals, assisting them in taking more control of their lives only where it is tangible and suitable.
A social worker today, should be ideally confident, competent, hard working professionals, working closely in with the service user, linked workers and other involved professionals, to help the service users achieve their goals in their lives. The main responsibility of the social worker is to protect the welfare and wellbeing of children and vulnerable adults and mental health service users in the communities. A social worker must therefore adapt a holistic approach, which means to fully understand and be aware of entire history and situation of the potential service user/families. Developing an effective strategic method in helping relationship with the service users, is extremely paramount to the role, for a better result.
A Social worker must also understand and practice the effect of working to target time, incorporate applied knowledge of the situation, skills, value and also display empathy, UPR
What is a social work? “Social work is a profession which promotes social change and problem solving in human relationships and the empowerment and liberation of people to enhance wellbeing. Utilizing theories of human behaviour and social systems, social work intervenes at the point where people interact with their environments. Principles of human rights and social justice are fundamental to social work”. (Understanding Social work, Neil Thompson, 2005, page 13, 2nd Edition)
Social work is recognized as a specialist profession with a sustainable universal value, expertise and knowledge foundation. Over many years the social work services have provided these facilities to vulnerable individuals which have then enabled the success of future generations, turning threatened dysfunctional members of society into well balanced, functional happy people. Social workers also have a fundamental role in working with individuals, assisting them in taking more control of their lives only where it is tangible and suitable.
A social worker today, should be ideally confident, competent, hard working professionals, working closely in with the service user, linked workers and other involved professionals, to help the service users achieve their goals in their lives. The main responsibility of the social worker is to protect the welfare and wellbeing of children and vulnerable adults and mental health service users in the communities. A social worker must therefore adapt a holistic approach, which means to fully understand and be aware of entire history and situation of the potential service user/families. Developing an effective strategic method in helping relationship with the service users, is extremely paramount to the role, for a better result.
A Social worker must also understand and practice the effect of working to target time, incorporate applied knowledge of the situation, skills, value and also display empathy, UPR