SOCIAL WORK FUNCTIONS

SOCIAL WORK FUNCTIONS
1. Helping people to improve and more effectively use their ability to perform the duties of life and solve their problems.
Tasks that can be implemented Social Worker:
a. Identify and make contact with others who need help in carrying out tasks of life.
b. Provide insight, encouragement and support to people in crisis.
c. Provide an opportunity for people to express the difficulty experienced.
d. Helping people to test a variety of alternative solutions and provide information to help make decisions.
e. Confront people with the reality of their situation by providing information which may disturb the balance of the person to be given further motivation for the change.
f. Teaches skills to help individuals realize their aspirations and life task.

2. Creating pathways preliminary relationships between people with the system to obtain the source.
Tugas2 workable Social Worker:
a. Help identify people who need the source system or the people who are not entitled to a benefit / not able to use it, but do not realize that they are eligible to receive service source system.
b. Provide information about the sources that can be utilized, their right to use it, and explain the procedures that need to be done to take advantage of these resources.
c. Helping people solve practical problems in the use of a specific source.
d. Make referrals to help people to overcome difficulties in the use of resources and the negotiation of a system.
e. Provide information and act as an advocate can provide stimulation to the source system to test the policy community services provided to the group.
f. Helping people to act as a resource for others through the establishment of a new system.

3. Facilitate interaction, change and create new relationships among people with the social system. Tasks that can be performed Social Worker:
a. Providing information to the community to explain the source of system problems that occur as a result of the source system.
b. Acting as a consultant to a community resource and provide recommendations on the various means of service delivery.
c. Consult informal systems to help them obtain services.
d. Linking people into one community source system with other source systems community.
e. Organizing service recipients to become members of the new organization
f. Mediate in solving the problems in the system of informal sources, members of the organization, as well as community source system.

4. Facilitate interaction, change and create new relationships among people with the source system. Tasks to do Social Workers:
a. Distribute information.
b. Being a neutral mediator
c. Helped organize part of a system
d. Acting as a consultant of the members of a system.
e. Teach skills to the members of a system to enable them to carry out the role.
f. Insert a new member into a system.
g. Involving members of the system to hold the disclosure and understanding of the problem.

5. Contribute to change, improvement, and development of social policy legislation. Tasks to do Social Workers:
a. Collect and analyze information on the problems and conditions that may indicate a change in policy need holding and social legislation.
b. Encouraging charity where she works, or other public sources as well as the system of formal organization in order to determine attitudes towards various issues in society.
c. Creating a new system to implement the changes in social policy.
d. Encourage others to become advocates who are directly related to the policy makers to make changes.
e. Prepare services, programs, concepts and proposals for regulatory change policies and create services needed ..

6. Resource leveling in terms of material resources are shared fairly. Tasks that can be performed Social Worker:
a. Determine resource requirements and accuracy and to determine who meets the requirements for using such sources.
b. Forming a new informal sources for a particular person.
c. Determine where the source or requirements to utilize.
d. Provides knowledge and skills to those who will act as a source.
e. Preparing people to use the resources and use resources effectively.
f. Monitor and supervise the use of sources.

7. Acting as executive control. Tasks to do Social Workers:
a. Conducting supervision to the person whose behavior deviates.
b. Investigate reports of neglect or abuse of the practice of those who should receive protection.
c. Licensed to sources that provide facilities to ensure adequate services to those in need.
Social Work Principal function:
   1. Restorative / return or restoration to the original state.
a. Curative / help, heal.
Curative activities include: identification, control, removal or inability to relate to social healing
b. Rehabilitative / recovery to the original state. Rehabilitation activities include efforts to reconstruct and reorganize patterns of interaction that have been damaged and broken or re-establish a new pattern of interaction. Restoring the capacity to return to a healthy state and can be used or restored to a satisfactory condition. Used in the context of helping people who have impaired capacity or not functioning, used in hospitals, homes, clinics, schools, LP, etc.. Rebuilding a new interaction patterns.
   2. Preventive / Prevention: To find the initial, control and eliminate the condition - a condition that causes people to function socially.
   3. Development:
a. Helping people improve their ability to function socially
b. Linking people with the source system.
c. Facilitating interaction with such a system resource.
d. Influencing social policy.
e. Channelling the source - the source material.
f. Providing services as executor of social control.