Function of Social Workers

Question 1

Six main functions

Answer 1

1. Help people
2. Establish linkages
3. Facilitate relationships
4. Contribute to development
5. Distribute resources
6. Serve as agents of social control

Question 2

Social Casework

Answer 2

Restoring, sustaining, or enhancing individual satisfactory and socially acceptable functioning for people with problems.

Question 3

Knowledge

Answer 3

1. Diagnosis and treatment are inter related
2. Treatment and clients response to treatment
3. Treatment takes place in and is made possible by the professional relationship

Question 4

Ego Modifying Interventions

Answer 4

Ego Assessment - as part of the helping process techniques.

Question 5

Hollis Typology of Categories of Interventions

Answer 5

A. Direct - Client- Social Worker Communication

B. Indirect- Environmental Interventions

Question 6

List of SW skills

Answer 6

1. Self-Awareness and Self Understanding: understanding influence of family
2. Ethical decision making: understanding legal duties, values, ethics of SW
3. Talking and Listening Basic interpersonal skills: voice, speech, body language, active listening.
4. Exploring: probing, seeking clarification
5. Assessing: organizing descriptive info
6. Contracting: reflecting on the problem,

Question 7

Other therapeutic communication skills

Answer 7

Empathy, centering, confronting, reframing, advising, educating, focusing, reviewing, reflecting, interpreting

Question 8

Terminiation

Answer 8

Planned or unplanned
Discussion of progress/accomplishments
Discussion of feeling/emotions
Development of a plan

May see some regression. Brief extention negotiation is okay, but not indefinite.