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1. Although it is rare, periodically , social workers in many fields are assaulted or even murdered by dissatisfied or disturbed clients or client family members.
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Social workers in fields such as mental health, child protective services, and corrections may be endangered and some are assaulted and murdered periodically.
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2.
Medical social workers help patients with such matters as paying for the cost of the their health care, finding adequate living arrangements once they are discharged from a hospital, and working with families to reintegrate people who have been seriously ill back into the family.
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Throughout social work's history, social research has been part of the practice and study of social work. Although not as large as providing services to people with social problems, there is a steady social work research effort in the profession, much of it conducted with government funds designed to help learn about social problems and their treatment.
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4.
Child support enforcement is one of the main functions of public welfare departments and has been for several years. Many children who receive public assistance would not need to do so if their absent parents (usually fathers) paid the child support they were required to pay. Therefore, government agencies work to find those parents and to collect their delinquent child support.
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5.
The United Way is a central fund raising organization in many local That operates in many communities. United Way agencies rarely provide services directly to clients.
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6.
Child Support Enforcement is a required service of all public social service agencies.
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Social workers are all called upon to assist in assessing or diagnosing human problems, including those of people with mental illness. However, social workers also attempt to avoid making value judgements or moral judgements about those they assess. Realistic and accurate assessment is an important step in helping people overcome their problems. But social workers, ethically, remain neutral about those they assess. The want to help them, not judge them.
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8.
Most social workers learn about the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual and many participate in diagnosing and assessing patients. Understanding abnormal or psychiatrically disturbed behavior is an important part of social work for many social workers.
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Social workers often work with young people and others to help them develop their leadership skills, enhance their communities, or otherwise assist in helping those who are free of fundamental problems to become better equipped to lead others.
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10.
There are many diverse jobs for social workers in the medical and health fields. Health services is one of the most rapidly growing areas of social work employment.
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Hospice programs are an important service for people who are terminally ill but who do not need hospital care. They often allow terminally ill people to remain in their own homes and receive services from social workers and others to help them feel better and to deal with their condition.
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Although social workers help people while they are hospitalized, one of the main functions of hospital social workers is discharge planning--helping people leave the hospital for community care or life in their own homes.
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13.
In all but the most severe verified cases of child abuse as well as child neglect, the primary effort is to help the family modify its functioning so that the child can be cared for while staying with the family.
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14.
Much of the practice of social work involves interdisciplinary efforts with other professions such as medicine, law, nursing, and other related fields.
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15.
One of the professional social work jobs in many agencies is to train and supervise volunteers. It is a skill of great value in the profession.
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16.
Association management is an important kind of job for social workers. Many social workers work in and direct organizations that advocate for the needs of children, older adults, people with disabilities, and other groups. Some also work for civic and social organizations that sponsor social programs.
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17.
Peace Corps has, for all its history, used social workers as volunteers and as staff in some of the nations it serves.
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18.
Although most agencies make distinctions between the roles of their social work and their psychology employees, in some situations, it may difficult to distinguish the roles played by the two professions.
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19.
Settlements are facilities in low income neighborhoods where social workers and others reside and provide services and programs for the neighborhood residents. They offer educational and recreational programs and help the neighborhood people with political and social action. But the low income residents do not live in the settlements.
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EAP's are a growing service in social work and are designed to help people at the work place.
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