Social Work: Exploring Roles, Skills, and Social Problem Solutions

This assignment delves into the multifaceted world of social work, highlighting its crucial role in addressing societal issues and enhancing individual well-being. It begins by defining social work as a profession dedicated to improving relationships and providing solutions to diverse problems, distinguishing it from other fields like finance and medicine. The assignment emphasizes the importance of social workers being aware of factors affecting the quality of life, such as clean resources and equal opportunities. It then explores various social problems, including unemployment and discrimination, and their impact on individuals. The assignment further outlines the historical roots of social work in charitable organizations and its evolution into a profession focused on both personal and public aspects of individuals' lives. The second part of the assignment focuses on the essential skills for effective social work, including assessment, communication, counseling, problem-solving, critical thinking, and documentation. It emphasizes the importance of human relationships and the ability to create a supportive environment for clients. The assignment concludes by highlighting the social worker's role as a facilitator, connecting clients with resources and fostering trust to resolve social issues effectively. References are provided to support the information presented.

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Task 1:
The foremost thing about social work is that it is all on the social front with which we deal in our
day to day life situations. Working for society helps to develop sound relations between a group
of people. However, in other professions like Banker deals with Finance management of each
individual, doctor look after the cure and prevention of disease, lawyers look for having proof of
different crime and provide justice but social work uniquely stands out to enhance the
relationships between each individual by knowing their problems and providing appropriate
solutions by visiting their home and sort out the various problems (Pollack, 2009).
The social worker must be aware of different measures of dealing with social problems. He must
be familiar with the factors that contribute to the quality of life of this universe. Few factor such
as are pure air and water, hygienic provision of food and equal opportunities for job seekers
(Pollack, 2009). The social worker should be capable of dealing with the social issues and must
have strong networking to sort out the problem by providing the victim with the necessary
resources.
There is a various social problem which never let the individual fulfil their goal at first stoke of
their efforts. To exemplify social problems, individuals are facing issues related to
unemployment, racism, malnutrition and unequal opportunity in their countries. Other examples
of social problems are substance abuse, employment discrimination, and child abuse. Some
social problem affects the individual directly and indirectly. For instance, the drunk driver
becomes the reason of accident that has not chosen the victims of the accident by race or colour
but it’s all so randomly (MacEachen, Polzer & Clarke, 2008). The children belong to the family
of abusive parents often becomes the perpetrator of family violence as an adult.

Social Worker 2
The roots of social work lie in various charitable organizations that stand out for helping people
who are in need. Earlier social work was volunteer basis only, however, nowadays social work
becomes a unique profession whose primary responsibility is to provide a helping hand to people
in need and making improvements to their environments (MacEachen, Polzer & Clarke, 2008).
The social worker has a concern about both personal and public aspects of individuals.The
personal aspects of the human such as moral values, emotions, and problem-solving attitude of
people, whereas public aspects such as the neighbourhoods, schools, working conditions, social
welfare systems, and political systems that affect each individual. In this way, social workers are
able to provide a unique service to the people in need by taking care of their private and public
aspects of problems (MacEachen, Polzer & Clarke, 2008). The social worker has made their
network circle with different organizations dealing with different professional so that their clients
can easily avail required facilities like financial, medical, education services which help them to
improve their present situation of living style. The basic duty of social worker is to provide a
clear path out of the problem to their client so that client becomes self sufficient with help of
social networking.
Task2:
Before choosing the field of social work, one must have basic skills to work effectively as a
social worker. By human nature, there is always feeling of fear whenever an individual stands
against some injustice happening around us but there is a social worker who is full of confidence
and power to lead different social issues (Dwyer, 2005). As a student, I am in learning phase but
I have different skills like good communication skills, leadership, problem solving, critical
thinking, social networking and few of these skills I am trying to learn which are discussed as

Social Worker 3
follows. I am sure to have these qualities as part of my personality to become social worker
without any fear and vulnerabilities.
1. Assessment Skills
One should be able to recognize the individual who is needy and requires resources to overcome
their social problem and it is strictly instructed to assess the client at different parameters to
evaluate that whether the resources are still required or not (Pollack, 2008).
2. Communication Skills
Communication being a social worker must be clear and concise as it requires oral and written
communication with clients (Dwyer, 2005).To exemplifies, social workers must communicate
effectively with higher officials to demand required funding for the social cause.
3. Counsellor and Leadership
Social workers need to counsel their clients usually so they require the qualities of a good
advocate for the presentation of client social issues that lead to positive development in resolving
the social problems.
4. Problem Solving Skills
One of the important skills that the social workers must have is their ability to solve the problem
analytically with fewer resources and limited budget.
5. Critical Thinking Skills
Critical thinking is all about looking for a solution to social problem along with broad minded
attitude and making use of information and knowledge that reflect their education.

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6. Documentation Skills
Each and every aspect of social issues must be recorded in a sequential manner corresponding to
each client.For this record maintenance, the social worker needs to do proper documentation of
all documents that represent cause and solution to social problems (Pollack, 2008).
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As a role of social worker, there must be a clear understanding of the human relationships.
Social workers are able to help their client as if they have good human relationships across
different fields of profession. They can support their client by developing a positive attitude in
them, by letting them free from any kind of fear, by motivating them to create a social circle. In
this way, I am able to develop a positive circle around me so that I have knowledge and
information on different issues (Pollack, 2008). By knowing the details of various social causes
and problem, one must be able to resolve it with the help of individuals in the network. In this
way, social worker acts as a catalyst for providing better living conditions to their client.
Moreover, for positive results, the client must have trust on their respective social worker or
team so that client feels comfortable in sharing their problem related issues and feelings attached
to each and every aspect of the problem (Pollack, 2008). In other words, the social worker is able
to provide a safe environment to their client to resolve the social problem.

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References
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