Clientele & Audiences

in Social Work
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a profession entails different clienteles…
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with helping
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 WORKING with INDIVIDUAL
Casework Case Work is a direct service,
provided by community service workers for
individuals who require skilled assistance in
resolving issues of resources, social and
emotional problems. It is a disciplined activity
in which the needs of the client are assessed in
the full social and relational context of the
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person. The Case Worker aims to strengthen the
clients own capacities to deal with problems and
to cope more effectively in their environment.
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The services delivered by a Case Worker range
from simple issues of material assistance, to
more complex issues of counselling."
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Each person has their own adaptation to
the demands of the various roles to
perform in a situation depending on their
capacities and motivation to do so.
According to De Guzman (1992) –
person’sinability to manage stress (result of a
distressfulsituation or problem) caused him or
her or those concerned with him or her seek
The social worker needs to acquire:- basic knowledge
of human behavior;- Of the nature of stress;- Human
beings responses to it; in order to understand the
situation of the client and eventually help them.
Each person is being affected by others and it is their totality as
a system that determines the person’s functioning rather than
the individualized operation of each subsystem Social worker
needs to know whether the client can be helped andhow he or
she can be helped.Social casework is more “client or person-
centered”rather than problem focused – it is the person’s
modeof adaptation that will determine whether problemcan be
resolved or alleviated or the difficulty removedor
reduced.Worker needs to understand whether the
person’spresent behavior is a manifestation of his/her ownmode
of adaptation to his/her current condition – thatcaused him/her
stress.Each person makes his/her own adaptationdepending on
his/her capacities and motivationto do so – to gain satisfaction,
avoid or dissolvedfrustration, and to maintain his/her balance
inmovement.When faces a threatening situation – tendency
touse his/her accustomed modes of adaptation,and if these fail,
revert to modes he/she previouslyused.
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