WHAT DO YOU MEAN BY: “SOCIAL WORK” & GENERIC PRINCIPLE?
WHAT DO YOU MEAN BY: “SOCIAL WORK” & GENERIC PRINCIPLE?
INTRODUCTION:
Social work is a practice-based profession and an academic discipline that promotes social change and development, social cohesion, and the empowerment and liberation of people. Principles of social justice, human rights, collective responsibility and respect for diversities are central to social work. Underpinned by theories of social work, social sciences, humanities and indigenous knowledge, social work engages people and structures to address life challenges and enhance wellbeing the people for their excellent life. Social work can be defined as having greater knowledge in all the ways to promote social change and welfare within society. Bringing awareness to the various suppressions and privileges, recognizing and practicing evidence-based theories and activities, empowering and advocating for the needs of individuals to assist in reforming injustice throughout the social order. To makes changes throughout humanity, one must first make changes within themselves, before taking on an individual, group, community, or greater level of the society. The social worker should understand about the principle of social work to change the individual, group, community and system of the whole society.
DEFINITION OF SOCIAL WORK:a
1. "Social work is a profession concerned with helping individuals, families, groups and communities to enhance their individual and collective well-being. It aims to help people develop their skills and their ability to use their resources and those of the community to resolve problems. Social work is concerned with individual and personal problems but also with broader social issues such as poverty, unemployment, and domestic violence." (
2. Friedlander (1951) defined, “Social work is a professional service, based on scientific knowledge and skill in human relations, which assists individuals, alone or in groups, to obtain social and personal satisfaction and independence”.
3. Stroup (1960) defined social work as “an art of bringing various resources bear on individual, group and community needs by the application of a scientific method of helping the people to help themselves”.
Aims of social work
· To provide physical help and guidance.
· To promote melodious social functioning.
· encourage the people to solve adjust mental problems.
· Empowerment and liberation of people.
· To give assistance to individuals in removing difficulties.
GENERIC PRINCIPLE OF SOCIAL WORK:
The generic principle of social work is best on 9principles that are mentioned in the below:
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The principle of individualization is very fundamental to recognize the uniqueness qualities, identity, ideology, attitude, behavior, knowledge and personalities of each and every individual. The all individual are not same they are alike from each and every one.
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The principle of meaningful relationship means to enable the clients to achieve respective goal as per the plan of social workers, and the social relationship are open ended in duration but the professional relationship ends when the problem is solved in a due time.
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The principle of self determination means to help the client to see his problem clearly and make decision and solve the problem by him or herself, he makes him acquainted with the resources available to deal with his problem as per the qualities of him.
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The principle of acceptance implies that social worker must perceive, acknowledge, receive and establish the relationship with the individual clients for his or her development.
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The social worker should have enough skills to grasp the communication for the development of the clients, therefore communication has the two way process to deal with the client to solve his or her problems.
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The social functioning means functions of the individual and social roles, regulation, norms and relationship to emphasis on his/her relation to the environment for the development of the clients.
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The principle of tuning behavior means, social worker should modify or change his or her instrument for the development of the client’s behavior and attitude.
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Social learning means it is a learning
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Confidentiality is the keeping of another person or entity's information private. Certain professionals are required by law to keep information shared by a client or patient private, without disclosing the information, even to law enforcement, except under certain specific circumstances.
By: Swarupa Nayak (HOD)
NYSADRI School of journalism and social work
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