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Social work is a helping activity, and the working concept is to help others to help themselves, that is, to help others have the ability to "help themselves", and when the next crisis or difficult situation comes, the service users can cope with their own abilities. The specific work content is as follows:
1. Visitation
Successful visits can help social workers gain the trust of their clients, establish a good relationship with them, understand their needs, and promote follow-up work.
The visit work is generally a home visit, and the social worker conducts a household visit according to the information learned from the street, community, hospital and other settled units, so in addition to having professional knowledge such as interview skills and communication skills, social workers also need to be psychologically prepared to "climb the stairs", because some communities do not have elevators!
2. Cases, groups, and communities
Casework is the provision of one-on-one professional services by social workers to individuals or individual familiesHelp individuals or families make good use of social resources, tap their potential, prepare for new life changes, and deal with sudden crises.
Group work is when social workers recruit 5-9 people with the same needs to work in a group. Depending on the needs, the group has different classifications, such as: an education group that helps group members learn new knowledge and new methods Xi;Help group members understand, recognize, and explore their own growth groupsA support group that helps group members encourage and support each other to solve problems, and so on.
Community work is a process in which social workers intervene in services from a broader perspective, promoting the participation of community residents through professional knowledge and skillsRaising the social awareness of the community;Good at community resources to meet community needs;Cultivate the virtues of mutual care and community care.
3. Link resources
An important role of social workers in carrying out activities is that of a resource linker. According to the needs of the service object, help the service object to contact the first department, enterprises and institutions, social organizations, caring people, etc. with corresponding resources, on the one hand, to ensure that the service object can get appropriate services and solve the current dilemma;On the other hand, the resources in the society can be maximized and their due value can be played.
4. Service document records
Systematic recording of each service content is an important job of social workers, which can help social workers to review, reflect and grow, and is also one of the ways for social workers' supervisors, directors, supervisors, and evaluation experts to inspect, review and evaluate the effectiveness of services. Therefore, social workers will generally have a filing cabinet to store service paperwork.
5. Administrative work
At present, the development of social work in China is similar to labor dispatch, and after the social work agency wins the bid, it will dispatch suitable social workers to the community, street, school and other units according to the requirements of the bid, so it is inevitable that social workers sometimes need to assist the resident unit to complete part of the administrative work, and the specific work content is different.
6. Learn and Xi and grow
The social work profession is a profession of continuous development, which requires social workers to adapt to the changes in the development of the social environment and the continuous improvement of service technology, and provide effective services to solve social problems and meet social needs. There are two main ways for social workers to learn Xi: supervision and subject training. Therefore, social workers are constantly "charging" their Xi while completing their own work.
To sum up, it is a good job for a social worker to help others while completing the work to support his family, and it is a good time to join the social work profession at a time when the country is vigorously developing social work!