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The Role of Social work.

Unit 6

Social work is practiced world-wide. The following is a widely accepted international definition: “The social work profession promotes social change, problem solving in human relationships and the empowerment and liberation of people to enhance well-being. Utilising theories of human behaviour and social systems, social work intervenes at the points where people interact with their environments. Principles of human rights and social justice are fundamental to social work”. In preparing this Statement, the project team and Reference Group found it necessary to consider and seek answers to several different but related questions implied in the remit:

- What range of roles and tasks does modern social work encompass?

- What is unique or distinctive about social work roles and tasks compared with those of other disciplines?

- What roles and tasks require the levels of knowledge and skill possessed by social workers, as distinct from other social care staff?

- What roles and tasks should be performed only by social workers?

The Statement distinguishes “roles”, based on the broad purposes of social work and the outcomes it enables people to achieve, from “tasks”, the activities required to deliver those purposes and outcomes. The roles tend to be particular to social work, although they are often performed within multidisciplinary teams and settings. The tasks may be carried out by social workers, or shared with or delegated to other social care staff, and are often similar to tasks other disciplines undertake in performing their roles.

In recent years there has been a trend, reinforced by government policy, towards blurring role differences and loosening boundaries between professional disciplines. Unduly rigid boundaries are thought to cause problems to people trying to find their way round the system, and to make for inefficiency in the use of professional resources. Social work roles tend to be more elastic than those of many other disciplines, for a variety of reasons:

- Social work has to take account of people’s needs, circumstances and relationships as a whole, rather than focusing on a particular condition or delivering a defined service.

- Increasingly, social workers are working in partnership with people to co-produce solutions matched to their strengths and preferences, and jointly securing the best possible outcomes.

- In enabling people to exercise control and choice, social work must respond to demands for more personalised solutions, to be flexible in finding new ways of working. and adapt to people’s changing situations.

- Social work as a profession plays a key role in mediating between the individual and the state, and determining when it is necessary for the state to intervene in the lives of individuals and families.

II. Ответьте на вопросы:

1.What is a widely accepted international definition for social work?

2. What principles are fundamental to social work?

3.What are the main questions of modern social work?

4. What are the reasons of social work to be more elastic?

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