Social Sciences

and Applied
Social Sciences
Presented by: MR. JONATHAN C. PILLA

DIASS HUMSS 12
Learning Objectives:
• 1. identify the goals and scope of social work.
• 2. discuss the goals and scope of social work.
• 3. appreciate the value of social work.
What professional career is
likely to have this picture?
Guide Questions:

• What can you depict

from the picture/s.

• What makes it social

work?
Picture Analysis:
Community
Immersion
Picture Analysis:
Typhoon Victim
Picture Analysis:
Nursing Home
Picture Analysis:
Street Children
What would be the
principal goal of social
work based on the
pictures presented?
1. The goal on caring
2. The goal on curing
3. The goal on changing.
What comes to
your mind when
you hear the
phrase “social
work?”
Social
work
How will you define
a social work then?
 
 SOCIAL WORK:
work carried out by
trained personnel with
the aim of alleviating
the conditions of those
in need of help or
welfare. 
To further understand
the value of social
work, it is important to
study the scope of
social work by
providing the key word
for each description.
What professional services can be offered by:

• Child development Social Work

• Medical Social Work
• Clinical Social Work
• Social work administration and management
• International social work
• Social work as community organizer
• Women welfare
• Crisis intervention
• Criminal Justice
Group Activity:
Students will be given TOPICS that include the
four (4) areas of Social Work in Philippine
perspective to be presented using Differentiated
Instructions:

• Family and Community (rap);

• Child, Youth and Women (simulation/tableau);
• Disaster, risks and reduction (spoken poetry)
and;
• Person with Disability (PWD) and Senior
Citizen (song).
• What are the problems
faced by the different
areas of social work?

• How would social work

be of service to these
groups?
Merry-go-round pause
and answer

• Based on the discussion,

the student will identify
the goals of social work
as to care, cure and
change.
1. Embrace a world view of human issues and
solutions to problems.
2. Empower people, individually and collectively,
to utilize their own problem-solving and coping
capabilities more effectively.
3. Uphold the integrity of the profession in all
aspects of social work.
4. Promote social justice and equality of all people
with regard to full participation in society.
5. Contribute to the development of knowledge
for social work profession through research and
evaluation.
1. Help the family to make decisions about their
pattern of reproduction towards enhancing the
family’s quality of life.
2. Offers adoption services to unmarried parents,
foster care, residential care and protective
services.
3. Establishes linkages between people and
societal resources to further social functioning.
4. Facilitate the responsiveness of the institutional
resource systems to meet health and human
service needs.
5. Treating people with problems in social
functioning.
• Choose among the discussed
professional services for social work
they believed they can engage
actively. Why?

Ask:
• What will motivate you to consider
engaging in social work?

• What traits must you have to

become an effective social worker?
SUMMARY:

• summarize the goals and

scope of social worker in 2-3
sentences.

• What are the goals and

scope of social work?
 Expected answer:

GOALS

•Care
•Cure
•Change

SCOPE
•Child development
•Medical Social Work
•Clinical Social Work
•Social work administration and management
•International social work
•Social work as community organizer
•Women welfare
•Crisis intervention
•Criminal Justice
Essay:
Test your understanding by
answering the following: (10 points)

• Write the definition of social work

as a profession?
• Describe briefly the goals and
scope of social work.
Assignment: Internet
Workload:
Search on the different
principles of social work with
respect to:

• Human Rights
• Social Justice
• Professional Integrity