[OB] Chapter 1: Social Welfare, Social Services and Social Work

Question 1

In its broadest sense, __________ covers practically everything that men do for the good of the society.

Answer 1

social welfare

Question 2

According to __________, __________ is an organized concern of all people for all people.

Answer 2

Gertrude Wilson, social welfare

Question 3

For __________, __________ is the organized system of social services and institutions, designed to aid individuals and groups to attain satisfying standards of life and health.

Answer 3

Elizabeth Wickenden, social welfare

Question 4

Social welfare is the organized social arrangements which have as their direct and primary objective the well-being of people in a social context.

This definition is according to __________.

Answer 4

The Pre-Conference Working Committee for the XVth International Conference on Social Welfare.

Question 5

Society responds to unmet needs or problems through the following ways: (Three Answers)

Answer 5

1. Individual and group efforts;
2. Major societal institutions which have their designated roles and responsibilities for meeting human needs; and
3. Social agency

Question 6

The professional social worker in the Philippines is usually employed by __________.

Answer 6

Social agency

Question 7

What are the two views or conceptions of social welfare?

Answer 7

residual and institutional

Question 8

The social welfare is temporary, offered during emergency situations and withdrawn when the regular social system – the family and the economic system – is again working properly.

What view or conception of social welfare is this?

Answer 8

residual

Question 9

The social welfare is a proper, legitimate function of a modern society. That some individuals are not able to meet all their needs is considered a “normal” condition, and helping agencies are accepted as “regular”.

What view or conception of social welfare is this?

Answer 9

institutional

Question 10

What are the three categories of social welfare programs?

Answer 10

1. Social security;
2. Personal social services; and
3. Public assistance

Question 11

This refers to the whole set of compulsory measures instituted to protect the individual and his family against the consequences of an unavoidable interruption or serious diminution of the earned income disposable for the maintenance of a reasonable standard of living.

Answer 11

Social security

Question 12

These refer to service function which have major bearing upon personal problems, individual situations of stress, interpersonal helping or helping people in need, and the provision of direct services in collaboration with workers from government and voluntary agencies.

Answer 12

Personal social services

Question 13

This refers to material/concrete aids/support provided, usually by government agencies, to people who have no income or means of support for themselves and their families for reasons such as loss of employment, natural disasters, etc. In many foreign countries, this is simply called “Welfare”

Answer 13

Public assistance

Question 14

What are the three important goals of social welfare?

Answer 14

1. Humanistic and Social Justice Goals;
2. Social Control Goal; and
3. Economic Development Goal.

Question 15

This goal of social welfare is rooted in the democratic ideal of social justice, and is based on the belief that man has potential to realize himself, except that physical, social, economic, psychological, and other factors sometimes hinder or prevent him from realizing his potentials.

Answer 15

Humanistic and Social Justice Goals

Question 16

This goal is based on the recognition that needy, deprived, or disadvantaged groups may strike out, individually and/or collectively, against what they consider to be an alienating or offending society.

Answer 16

Social Control Goal

Question 17

This goal places priority on those programs designed to support increases in the production of goods and services, and other resources that will contribute to economic development.

Answer 17

Economic Development Goal

Question 18

__________ is the profession which is concerned with man’s adjustment to his environment; a person (or groups) in relation to a person’s (or their) social situation.

Answer 18

Social work

Question 19

It is a result of a person’s performance of his various social roles in society.

Answer 19

social functioning

Question 20

Social functioning problems are caused by:

Answer 20

1. personal inadequacies or pathologies;
2. situational inadequacies and other conditions which are beyond man’s coping capacities; and
3. both personal and situational inadequacies

Question 21

According to The United States Council on Social Work Education:

Social work seeks to enhance the __________ of individuals, singly or in groups, by activities focused upon their social relationships which constitute the interaction between man and his environment.

Answer 21

social functioning

Question 22

Social workers are __________ in society and in the lives of the individuals, families, and communities they serve.

Answer 22

change agents