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Chapter 1- Social welfare, Social Services, and Social Work SWSW Mendoza

Walter Friedlander's definition of social work


is the organized system of social services and institutions, designed to aid individuals and groups to attain
satisfying standards of life and health.
According to Elizabeth Wickenden, social welfare includes those laws, programs, benefits, and services to
strengthen the social needs and to have a better social functioning.

Society responds to unmet needs or problem through the following ways:


1. Individual and group efforts
2. Major societal institution
3. Social agency
1. Individual and group efforts these refers to systematic and voluntary efforts undertaken by individuals
and/or groups in response to the unmet needs of people in the community. For example. Community Pantry
2. Major social institutions which have their designated roles and responsibilities for meeting human
needs. The family, church, the government, cooperatives and labor unions are major institutions.
3. Social agency whether public or private auspices, a social agency is a major provision of helping people
with their problems.

Two views or conception of social welfare


1. Residual
2. Institutional
1. Residual as temporary, offered during emergency situations and withdrawn when the regular social
system. For example. Community Pantry because it only happens during the pandemic. often carry the
stigma of “dole” and “charity”
2. Institutional (permanent) as a proper, legitimate function of modern society.(helping agencies are
accepted “regular” and some individuals are not able to meet all their needs consider as a “normal”.
For example. 4ps

Social welfare programs usually fall under the following categories:


1. Social Security
2. Personal social service
3. Public Assistance
1. Social Security - this refers to the whole set of compulsory measures instituted to protect the individual
and his family against the consequences of an unavoidable interruption and serious diminution of the earned
income disposable for the maintenance of reasonable standard of living. Examples: provident funds and
social insurance
2. Personal social services - these refers to service functions which have major bearing upon personal
problems, individual situation of stress, interpersonal helping or helping people in need, and the
provision of direct services in collaboration with workers from government and voluntary agencies.
Examples: programs for counseling, therapy, and rehabilitation.
3. Public Assistance - 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 foreign countries public assistance is simply called
“welfare”.)

Social services - refers to the programs, services, and other activities provided under various auspices, to
concretely answer the needs and problems of the members of society.
Why is there a need for social services? Because some people don’t know how to solve their problem or
there are people who have needs and problems beyond their own capacity for solution.
Richard M. Titmus sees social problems as structural or basically located in the economy. He considers
social services as partial compensation for the “socially generated disservices” and socially-caused dis-
welfare.”
Important goals of social welfare which often compete for scarce resources are the following.
1. Humanitarian and Social Justice Goal
2. Social Control Goal
3. Economic Development Goal
1. Humanitarian and Social Justice Goal.
This goal of social welfare is rooted in the democratic ideal of social justice, and is based on the
belief that man has the potential to realize himself, except that physical, social, economic,
psychological, and other factors sometimes hinder or prevent him form realizing his full potentials.
This concept submits that it is right and just for a man to help man, hence, social service.
2. Social Control Goal (gaps between the government and the people)
This goal is based on the recognition that needy, deprived, or disadvantaged groups may strike out,
individual and/or collectively, against what they consider to be alienating or offending society. The
society have to secure their lives against the threats. Example, the social services to dissidents, and
to juvenile and adult offenders exemplify the social control goal of social welfare.
3. Economic Development Goal
The economic development 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. For example. a. social services which directly contribute to increased productivity. b.
social services that prevent or relieve the burden of dependence on adult workers. c. social services
which prevent or counteract the disruptive effects of urbanization and industrialization on family
and community life and help the local leadership in communities like family life education services.

Social work - is the profession which is concerned with man’s adjustment to his environment: a person (or
groups) in relation to a person’s social situation.
Social functioning problems are caused by any of the following
a. personal inadequacies or sometimes pathologies which may make it difficult for man to cope with
the demands of his environment.
b. situational inadequacies and other conditions which are beyond man's coping capacities
c. both personal and situational inadequacies
Personal inadequacies - may be due to physiological factors like poor physical constitution, wrong
attitudes and values, poor or unrealistic perception of reality, ignorance, and lack of skills.
Situational inadequacies - refers to the lack of resources and opportunities in society (such as the
availability of employment, but only for highly skilled or trained workers).

These activities can be grouped into three functions


1. restoration of impaired capacity
2. provision of individual and resources
3. prevention of social dysfunction

The social work profession promotes social change, problem solving in human relationships and the
empowerment and liberation of people to enhance well being.

Social work in its various forms it addresses the multiple, complex transactions between people and their
environments. Its mission is to enable all people to develop their full potential, enrich their lives, and prevent
dysfunction.

Social Work are change agents in society and in the lives of the individuals, families, and communities they
serve. is an interrelated systems of values, theory, and practice.

These includes traditional social work setting such as hospitals, public assistance agencies, and institutions
for the different needy groups.

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