FOCUS SOCIAL WORK INTERVENTION
The experts (Max Siporin, Charles Zastrow, Rex A. Skidmore
and Milton G. Thackery) states that Social Work is a profession for help,
which is intended to help people (both individually and collectively) improve
social functioning (social fungtioning). So social functioning is the focus of Social
Work.
Social fungtioning viewed from various aspects, namely:
1. Ability to implement social role
Social fungtioning can be seen as a performance / execution
expected role as a member of a collectivity. This view has several aspects:
a. Social status
Someone living in the middle - the middle of collectivity
(family, group, and community komunitiy) must have social status. Plural social
status of a person has more than one social status such as parents, husband,
son, and so on.
b. Internasional
Every social status of a person always has a partner
(interaction with their partner). Example:
The child's parents
Couple
Head of subordinates
c. Demands or expectations
Each individual's social status is essentially demanding
behavior that should be implemented. Demands behavior according to the norms or
values which the person is (role expectation). For example, the social status
of the parents, it is required to:
• Able to educate children - children
• Able to provide examples
• Socializing, etc..
d. Behavior
Human behavior is influenced by many factors, both factors
that is inside / internal and external / external. All these factors are
related to each other, interact to form a complex behavior. So, in principle,
have the behavior will lead to a cause and effect.
e. Situational
Implementation of role / person's behavior according to its
status, always in the context of the situation, meaning that people always
behave in the context of social situations. The social situation is the basic
unity that allow social interaction.
One way of looking at social situations may be:
1) Conceptual - descriptive depiction:
• What and how the reality - the reality facing
• Tasks and activities that might be undertaken
• What role do
2) Operational - perspective, that picture:
• Guidelines to be followed
• Possible future
• Action - actions that need to be done in the future
Therefore, people in the feel and look also varied
situations, among others:
1) Looking at the social situation as a situation that can
be trusted. On the contrary, there are people who view the situation can not be
trusted.
2) Looking at the social situation as a situation that
provides support. But otherwise there are people who see a stressful situation
or demand.
3) Looking at the situation as a situation that fosters
social and personal identity float. But otherwise there are people who see the
situation as threatening situations.
Max Siporin states that there are nine characteristics of
the social situation which is said to be a functional situation, namely:
a) The social situation that is structurally adequate,
because:
• Provide sufficient materials and labor
• adequate ecological conditions
• Relationships are good and reasonable
b) The situation that is culturally appropriate, because:
• Having the values, norms and sanctions
• Having a moral order
• Having an effective identity
c) Process - a process that is in social situations can be
run efficiently and directed to the achievement of goals.
d) The social situation thoroughly buffered seen clearly,
consistently, and rellatif stable, although the social situation gives the
possibility to make adjustments and changes.
e) The situation provides opportunities, resources, and
services needed.
f) the social situation encourages or demands, provide
reasonable sanctions and rewards.
g) The social situation is providing benefits or improve
identity, self-esteem and awareness of individual and group competency as a
whole.
h) The situation has prompted an awareness of the reality -
the reality of life that demands that need to be dealt with skills - skills that
are possessed.
i) The social situation gives the possibility for members to
connect with other people.
2. The ability to meet the needs of
To be able to identify basic human needs, in fact there are
some principles that need to be addressed:
a. Human needs in principle plural, meaning human needs are
more than one.
b. There are some real human needs is characteristic of its
cultural context.
c. System needs of each individual depends on its
development. Needs of infants, adolescents, and adults will be different -
different.
Types of human needs in general can be seen from the opinion
of experts as follows:
1. Neil Gilbert and Harry Specht
Stating that human needs can be grouped into 5 parts:
a. Physical needs
b. Emotional needs
c. Intellectual needs
d. Spiritual needs
e. Social needs
2. Abraham H. Maslow
Divides human needs into five sections, namely:
a. Physicological needs
b. Safety needs
c. Love and belonging needs
d. Esteem needs
e. Self actualization needs
3. NASW and CSWE
Developing the opinion of Maslow's human needs, namely:
a. Need for physical and mental well being
b. Need to know
c. Need for justice
d. Need for economical security
e. Need for self-realization, intimacy and relationship
4. Naomi I. Brill
Stating that human needs, in principle, can be grouped into
two groups, namely:
a. The need for security (safety needs)
The need for security cover material requirements that are
useful to sustain life, such as food, clothing, housing and non-material needs
such as the need to love and be loved, etc..
b. The need accomodate the drive towar Groth (the need to
accommodate a boost - a boost that can result in growth)
5. Hepworth and Larsen
Classifying human needs into four, namely:
a. Positive self consept
• Identify
• Self esteem
• Self confidance
b. Emotional
• Feeling needed and valued by others
• Sense of belonging
• Companionship
c. Personal fulfillment
• Education
• Recreation
• Accoplishment
• Esthetic satisfaction
• Religion
d. Phsycal need
• Food, clothing, hausing
• Health care
• Safety
• Protection
3. The ability to solve the social problems experienced by
People in business needs, carry out the task - the task of
life and to realize their aspirations is not easy. He was faced with
limitations - limitations, obstacles - obstacles and difficulties -
difficulties. Man at confront the problems that must be faced.