What is the role of a Social worker?

Answer 1

The following is written by and according to the U.S. Department of Labor and particular to the work of social workers.

Social work is a profession for those with a strong desire to help improve people's lives. Social workers assist people by helping them cope with issues in their everyday lives, deal with their relationships, and solve personal and family problems. Some social workers help clients who face a disability or a life-threatening disease or a social problem, such as inadequate housing, unemployment, or substance abuse. Social workers also assist families that have serious domestic conflicts, sometimes involving child or spousal abuse. Some social workers conduct research, advocate for improved services, engage in systems design or are involved in planning or policy development. Many social workers specialize in serving a particular population or working in a specific setting.
Child, family, and school social workers provide social services and assistance to improve the social and psychological functioning of children and their families and to maximize the well-being of families and the academic functioning of children. They may assist single parents, arrange adoptions, or help find foster homes for neglected, abandoned, or abused children. Some specialize in services for senior citizens. These social workers may run support groups for the children of aging parents; advise elderly people or family members about housing, transportation, long-term care, and other services; and coordinate and monitor these services. Through employee assistance programs, social workers may help people cope with job-related pressures or with personal problems that affect the quality of their work.
In schools, social workers often serve as the link between students' families and the school, working with parents, guardians, teachers, and other school officials to ensure students reach their academic and personal potential. In addition, they address problems such as misbehavior, truancy, and teenage pregnancy and advise teachers on how to cope with difficult students. Increasingly, school social workers teach workshops to entire classes.
Child, family, and school social workers may also be known as child welfare social workers, family services social workers, child protective services social workers, occupational social workers, or gerontology social workers. They often work for individual and family services agencies, schools, or State or local governments.
Medical and public health social workers provide psychosocial support to people, families, or vulnerable populations so they can cope with chronic, acute, or terminal illnesses, such as Alzheimer's disease, cancer, or AIDS. They also advise family caregivers, counsel patients, and help plan for patients' needs after discharge from hospitals. They may arrange for at-home services, such as meals-on-wheels or home care. Some work on interdisciplinary teams that evaluate certain kinds of patients-geriatric or organ transplant patients, for example. Medical and public health social workers may work for hospitals, nursing and personal care facilities, individual and family services agencies, or local governments.
Mental health and substance abuse social workers assess and treat individuals with mental illness or substance abuse problems, including abuse of alcohol, tobacco, or other drugs. Such services include individual and group therapy, outreach, crisis intervention, social rehabilitation, and teaching skills needed for everyday living. They also may help plan for supportive services to ease clients' return to the community. Mental health and substance abuse social workers are likely to work in hospitals, substance abuse treatment centers, individual and family services agencies, or local governments. These social workers may be known as clinical social workers. (counselors and psychologists, who may provide similar services, are discussed elsewhere in the Handbook.)
Other types of social workers include social work administrators, planners and policymakers, who develop and implement programs to address issues such as child abuse, homelessness, substance abuse, poverty, and violence. These workers research and analyze policies, programs, and regulations. They identify social problems and suggest legislative and other solutions. They may help raise funds or write grants to support these programs.

Work environment. Social workers usually spend most of their time in an office or residential facility, but they also may travel locally to visit clients, meet with service providers, or attend meetings. Some may meet with clients in one of several offices within a local area. Social work, while satisfying, can be challenging. Understaffing and large caseloads add to the pressure in some agencies. To tend to patient care or client needs, many hospitals and long-term care facilities employ social workers on teams with a broad mix of occupations, including clinical specialists, registered nurses, and health aides. Full-time social workers usually work a standard 40-hour week, but some occasionally work evenings and weekends to meet with clients, attend community meetings, and handle emergencies. Some work part time, particularly in voluntary nonprofit agencies.

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Answer 2

The main objective and the role of a social worker in social action is to bring positive structural changes with in a society by creating maximum participation and cooperation.Through social action social workers can bring desire changes to the society.

Answer 3

Social workers complete a number of tasks including (but not limited to) child protection, counselling, community development, advocacy, policy development and case management. They work with all ages and Demographics, and their primary focus is to work with individuals to assist them in problem solving. A friend once compared the role to that of the centre of a wheel. Each spoke represents an area of expertise (i.e.: psychology, occupational therapy, education, community services, etc.), and a social worker will often know enough about each area to connect the individual/family/community to, but not enough to be able to provide the service. Social workers work in a variety of settings from government agencies, hospitals, schools, nursing homes.

To be a social worker, you have to have a university degree in Social Work and many areas require that you belong to the areas professional association.

Answer 4

My name's Erin and I'm a social work student at a university in New Mexico.

These aren't all of them (there's like 20 or so), but here's what I've got: Social workers have roles:

-they are listeners (listen to those we try to help)

-they are teachers (teach those we try to help how to help themselves and so on- like this is how to fill out an application or this is what to feed you're kids)

-they advocate for their clients/people they're helping

-they are facilitators (help get things moving)

-they are policy makers (some are in politics and help get laws to help people)

-they are community organizers ( plan stuff to help people at a community level with a groups of people like open up another soup kitchen and hire another teacher for the school, stuff like that. Community Organizing started with Saul Alinsky in somewhere around the 50s

-counselors

Hope that that was helpful. That's all I've got at the moment.

If you meant job jobs, then, they work at: shelters, Children Youth and Families, hospitals, mental hospitals, as counselors, on military bases, at schools, pretty much everywhere, but the pay is crappy! Unless you work at a Private organization rather than the state government.

Answer 5

Social work is a profession committed to the pursuit of social justice, to quality of life, and to the development of the full potential of each individual, group and community in a society. Social workers draw on the Social Sciences and on clinical expertise to solve social problems. They may work in research, practice, or both. Practitioners will usually possess a degree or registered license in the discipline, dependent on national law. Social work research is often focused in areas such as individual and family therapy, social policy, public administration and development. Social workers are organized into local, national, and international professional bodies to further the aims of the profession.

Answer 6

A social worker is a professional who promotes social changes,solves problems in human relations and empowers and liberates people in their well being. The main duties are

They manage cases in families in the dependency system and persons with exceptional medical conditions.

Provide referrals to community resources such as monetary assistance, medical assistance, food banks, tutorial for children and teenagers

Help choose a career path and manage relationships

Social workers attend family courts to help determine the out come of custody or adoption.

Answer 7

Social workers services are based on a vase variety of things.

Here are a few that a social workers work would be based on

Adoption Agent

Adoption Counselor

Adoption Social Worker

Adoption Specialist

Adult Protective Caseworker

At-Risk Specialist

Casework Supervisor

Certified Children, Youth, and Family Social Worker

Child Abuse Worker

Child Protective Services Specialist

Child Welfare Consultant

Child Welfare Social Worker

Children's Counselor

Early Intervention Specialist

Family Caseworker

Family Preservation Caseworker

Family Support Specialist

Juvenile Officer

Post Adoption Coordinator

Program Support Specialist

And several more!

How do I know this is correct?

Well I may only be 14 years old but I have been studying this profession for a long time.

it's my dream(:

Answer 8

Social employees aim to enhance people’s lives by serving those with social and interpersonal difficulties and promoting human rights and success. Social employees defend kids and adults with support desires from damage. From serving to keep a family harassed along to supporting somebody with mental state issues, welfare work is varied, demanding, usually emotional, and extremely rewarding career.