Roles of Social Workers

1.
Provide
past and current examples where you have engaged in leadership, advocacy,
community engagement, and/or related paid/volunteer experiences, including
experiences with individuals and groups with backgrounds and characteristics
different from your own.
a.
How
do your experiences in each of these areas relate specifically to the 12 main
social work roles? Given your previous experiences, in which roles do you
anticipate needing further growth (See Roles and Values listed below)?
b.
How
do your experiences in each of these areas relate specifically to the 6 core
values of the profession? Given your previous experiences, which 1-2 values do
you anticipate being more difficult to integrate into social work practice and
why (See Roles and Values listed below)?

2.
Discuss
how you have dealt with diversity and value differences. A. What potential
difficulties regarding diversity and value differences do you anticipate in
your responsibilities as a social worker given your population of interest and
in the overall field of social work?
a.
How
do you anticipate that working with diversity and value differences in the role
of a social worker will be similar/different from your previous life
experiences?
b.
You
will need to commit to providing compassionate and effective help to all people.
Who are the people and/or groups you would find most difficult to commit to
learning how to help and why?
3.
Using
Micah 6:8 as a framework, discuss your perspective on integration of
faith/spirituality into social work practice given your personal worldview.

Roles of Social Workers

Enabler: Helps
individuals or groups to articulate their needs, clarify and identify their
problems, explore resolution strategies, selects and apply a strategy, and
develop their capacities to deal with problems more effectively.
Mediator:
Involves intervention in
disputes between parties to help them find compromises, reconcile differences,
or reach mutually satisfactory agreements.
General Manager: Involves assuming some level of administrative
responsibility for a social services agency or other organizational system.
Educator: Gives
information to clients and teaches them adaptive skills
Analyst/ Evaluator: Determines
effectiveness of a program or agency.
Broker: Links
any size system (individuals, groups, organizations, or communities) with
community resources and services.
Facilitator: Guides
a group experience.
Initiator: Calls
attention to an issue – a problem, need or situation that can be improved.
Advocate: An active intervention on a client system’s behalf
to get needed resources that are currently unavailable or to change regulations
or policies that negatively affect that client system.
Empowerer: Helps individuals, families, groups, organizations,
and communities increase their personal, interpersonal, socioeconomic, and
political strength and influence.
Public Speaker: Talk to groups to inform them of available services
or argue the need for new services.
Counselor: Aids in problem solving and enhancing quality of
life. Social workers are therapists, career counselors, etc.
Social Work Values

The following broad ethical principles are based on
social work’s core values of service, social justice, dignity and worth of the
person, importance of human relationships, integrity, and competence. These
principles set forth ideals to which all social workers should aspire.
Value: Service
Ethical Principle: Social
workers’ primary goal is to help people in need and to address social problems.
Social workers elevate service to others above
self-interest. Social workers draw on their knowledge, values, and skills to
help people in need and to address social problems. Social workers are
encouraged to volunteer some portion of their professional skills with
no expectation of significant financial return (pro bono service).
Value: Social
Justice
Ethical Principle: Social
workers challenge social injustice.
Social workers pursue social change, particularly with
and on behalf of vulnerable and oppressed individuals and groups of
people. Social workers’ social change efforts are focused primarily on issues
of poverty, unemployment, discrimination, and other forms of social
injustice. These activities seek to promote sensitivity to and knowledge about
oppression and cultural and ethnic diversity. Social workers
strive to ensure access to needed information, services, and resources;
equality of opportunity; and meaningful participation in decision making for
all people.
Value: Dignity
and Worth of the Person
Ethical Principle: Social
workers respect the inherent dignity and worth of the person.
Social workers treat each person in a caring and
respectful fashion, mindful of individual differences and cultural and
ethnic diversity. Social workers promote clients’ socially responsible
self-determination. Social workers seek to enhance clients’ capacity and
opportunity to change and to address their own needs. Social workers are
cognizant of their dual responsibility to clients and to the broader society.
They seek to resolve conflicts between clients’ interests and the broader
society’s interests in a socially responsible manner consistent with the
values, ethical principles, and ethical standards of the profession.
Value: Importance
of Human Relationships
Ethical Principle: Social
workers recognize the central importance of human relationships.
Social workers understand that relationships between
and among people are an important vehicle for change. Social workers engage
people as partners in the helping process. Social workers seek to strengthen
relationships among people in a purposeful effort to promote, restore,
maintain, and enhance the well-being of individuals, families, social groups,
organizations, and communities.
Value: Integrity
Ethical Principle: Social
workers behave in a trustworthy manner.
Social workers are continually aware of the
profession’s mission, values, ethical principles, and ethical standards and
practice in a manner consistent with them. Social workers act honestly and
responsibly and promote ethical practices on the part of the organizations with
which they are affiliated.
Value: Competence
Ethical Principle:
Social workers practice within their areas of competence and develop and
enhance their professional expertise.
Social workers continually strive to increase their
professional knowledge and skills and to apply them in practice. Social workers
should aspire to contribute to the knowledge base of the profession.

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