CORE VALUES OF SOCIAL WORK

Core values
 a vital organizational component, play a significant role in the organization.
 They serve as guiding principles that shape the behavior and action of its members in interacting with
their clients and other people.

Mendoza (2002) cited that the Council on Social Work Education identified and described si values that are
shared by the social profession.

1. Right to self-fulfillment
 Each person has the right to self- fulfillment which is derived from his/ her inherent capacity and thrust
toward the goal.

2. Responsibility to common good

 Each person has the responsibility as a members of the society to seek ways of fulfillment that contribute
to common good.

3. Responsibility of the society

 The society has the responsibility to facilitate self- fulfillment of the individual and the right enrichment
through the contribution of its individual members.

4. Right to satisfy basic needs

 Each person requires for the harmonious development of his powers socially provided and socially
safeguarded opportunities for satisfying his/ her basic needs in the physical, psychological,
economic,cultural aesthetic and spiritual realms.

5. Social organizations required to facilitate individuals effort at self- realization

 Notion that individual and society are interdependent provides a perspective that the society has the
responsibility to provide appropriate social resources.
 it is the right of the individual to promote change in social resources that do not deserve his/ her need-
meeting efforts.

6. Self-realizations and contribution to society

 To permit both self- realization and contribution to society by the individual, social organization must
make available socially provided devices for need- satisfaction as wide in range, variety and quality as
the general welfare allows.