1. General Practice of Social Work

2. Review In 1889, Jane Addams opened Hull House in Chicago
Any question about the video on the Brief History of American Social Work?
Five Key National Insurances in Korea (한국의 5대 보험 도입 역사):
National Industrial Compensation Insurance : 산재보험 (1964)
National Health Insurance: 건강보험(1977)
National Pension: 국민연금 (1988)
National Unemployment Insurance: 고용보험 (1995)
National Long-Term Care Insurance: 노인장기요양보험 (2008)

3. Preparation of Reflection Paper
Let’s share your plans

4. Overview
(In)direct practice
Case work
Group work
Community work

5. Social Work Approaches (Intervention Methods)
Direct Approach (실천적 접근)-Social Work Practice: An art, a science, a profession that helps people solve personal (Case Work), group (Group Work), and community problems (Community Work)
Indirect Approach (정책적 접근)-Community work, Social Work Administration, Policy, & Research
Depending on unit of target clients:
Micro – Case work, Group work
Mezzo- Community work
Macro- Social Policy

6. Direct Practice Interventions
Case work
Group work
Community work

7. Case Work: 개별사회사업
Case work is a process used by social workers to help individuals (including families) to cope more effectively with their problems in social functioning.
A face-to-face helping process
Recognizes both internal psychological and external social causes of dysfunctioning
Seeks to enable the individual to meet client’s needs
Seeks to function more adequately in client’s social relationship

8. Case Work Seen as a psychosocial intervention
Utilize psychological theories to understand personality traits (internal factors) as part of the intervention plans to help clients
Use sociological theories to understand the environmental or external factors

9. Examples on case work?

10. Group Work
The problem-solving process is carried out not only between the client and the social worker but also together with others who are in the same difficulties.
Group members should be beneficial from each other.
It is important to understand group dynamics. -

11. Examples on group work?

12. Intervention Process of Case Work and Group Work
Preparation stage
Referral/Recruitment process
Intake stage
Needs assessment
Intervention planning
Implementation of intervention
Evaluation and termination

13. Elements of Professional Relationship
Individualization (개별화)
Purposive expression of feeling (의도적 감정표현)
Controlled emotional response to the client (통제된 정서적 관여)
Acceptance (수용) of the real
Non-judgemental attitude toward the client(비심판적 태도)
Self-determination (자기결정권) of the client
Confidentiality

14. What is a community?

15. Definitions of community
A geographical space, a geopolitical or civic entity, & a place of emotional identity (Cohen, 1985)
Fellin’s (2001) definition: social units with one or mo re of the following three dimensions
A functional spatial unit meeting sustenance needs
A unit of patterned interaction
A symbolic unit of collective identification
Common elements in the definition of community are geographic area, social interaction, and common ties.
How about length of stay, drifters, settlers, relocators, & natives
Place- bounded location vs nonplace-bounded interests
Social planning vs Social action

16. Mapping My Communities
Associations of Social workers
Local agencies/
organizations for older adults
Virtual
community/
KaKao talk Face book
Washington Univ.
GBW school
Alumni associations
NASW/SSWR
GSA/SASW
APHA/CSWE
Dongguk Univ
Gangneung
In Korea

17. Try to map your communities

18. Community Work
Social workers are mainly interested in changing the environment of community.
The application of practice skills to alter the behavioral patterns of community entities
Also interested in organizing community resources.
Considered as (in)direct practice depending on the nature of problems
The client unit is the community instead of an individual or a small group.
Social workers mobilize the community by working with key volunteers in the community to resolve community issues/problems.
Volunteers play a key role while social worker play the roles of guide, catalyst or facilitator

19. Objectives of Community Work (Well & Gamble 1995)
Develop the organizing skills and abilities of individuals and groups
Make social planning more accessible and inclusive in a community
Connect social & economic involvement to grassroots community groups
Advocate for broad coalitions in solving community problems
Infuse the social planning process with a concern for social justice
Community practice model’s main domains addressed by Well & Gamble in 1995

20. Examples on community work?