1.

Compassion
• Considered as important value for all
humankind, but in social work, it occupies a
special impetus to the functioning of the
profession.
• It is the basis for someone to go out and
become a voice to the voiceless and a friend
to the people who need it most.
 2. Service
• Directs social workers to go beyond purely
performing a service for a pay and allow them
to be generous with their time.
• Their work borders on charity and
professional service.
• Without a special interest in pure service,
much of the social work could not be properly
accomplished.
 3. Social Justice
• It is a basis of the social worker’s
understanding of the need to ensure that
everyone get serviced and that everyone get a
share of what the community possesses in
material and non-material assets.
 4. Dignity and worth of the
person

• It provides the determination and drive for

social workers to seek the marginalized in all
forms without much regard as to whether
such problem is self- inflicted or socially
imposed.
• At the heart of every social work is the belief
that all humans have dignity and worth
regardless of their acts and status in life.
 5. Importance of human
relationships
• It makes it possible for social worker to do
their job as most human situations they seek
to address require collaborating with so many
other professionals and individuals with a
stake in the issue.
• It is in the context of relationship where
people find themselves broken and
marginalized.
• A relationship is the context of social
marginalization and inclusion.
 6. Integrity
• It is necessary in all human endeavors.
• In social work, nothing can be accomplished
without integrity.
 7. Competence
• It is very important value for social work
because it separates social caregiving from
social work professional practice.
• Through special training, a social worker
becomes separated from all common sense,
culture, and religious-based care.