CLINICAL WORK TO SOCIAL POLICY: ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES OF SCHOOL SOCIAL WORKERS
Journal Title: The Journal of International Social Research - Year 2016, Vol 9, Issue 46
Abstract
Social work existentially has knowledge, skill and value base; and ethical codes, which social work discipline addresses within value base, promotes social justice and social change for social workers and on behalf of their clients. In other words, liable to cultural and ethnic diversities, social work profession has ethical responsibilities in that it promotes social justice and social change on behalf of its clients in order to prevent discrimination, oppression, poverty and social injustice. No other profession within the school has such demand. Professional practice may include direct intervention, community organizing, supervision, counselling, management, advocacy, social and political action, policy making and practice. In literature, school social work policy practice is claimed to have six steps. School social workers should possess analytical, political, interactional and value skills. School social workers can realize policy practice through practising these skills. School social workers may become members of an NGO; take part in local government or school management in order to contribute to policy practice. School social worker has such responsibilities as change agent, leader and advocator. Social change is a process of team work but not an individual. On the one hand, education is a powerful engine controlling economies, determining individual and national success; on the other, social work discipline has such roles and responsibilities, which enable school social workers effect social policy through clinical work in school settings. In this respect, school social workers will pave the way for further development when they prepare and devote themselves for this role and responsibilities.
Authors and Affiliations
Yasemin ÖZKAN
Keywords
Related Articles
- EP ID EP252662
- DOI 10.17719/jisr.20164622609
- Views 125
- Downloads 0
ANALYSIS OF RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN TRAIT ANXIETY AND ASSERTIVENESS
This research was conducted to analyze relationship between trait anxiety and assertiveness. 200 students studying in Çankırı Karatekin University Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences were reached within this...
Career Plateuning and Work Attitudes: Moderating Effects of Mentoring with Nigerian Employees
This study examined the relation of career plateauing to job satisfaction, to organizational commitment, and turnover intentions and the moderating effects of mentoring on the relationships between career plateauing and...
THE INNER REBELLIONS IN THE NATIONAL STRUGGLE PERIOD: THE EXAMPLE OF YOZGAT
Yozgat is located on a region of Middle Kızılırmak in the Central Anatolia. It is surrounded by Sivas in the East, Kayseri and Nevşehir in the South, Ankara and Kırşehir in the West and Çorum, Amasya and Tokat in the Nor...
THE SECOND CONSTITUTIONAL ERA: WOMEN'S EDUCATION PERIOD THROUGH THE EYES OF WOMEN
Women's education in the Ottoman Empire as a result of change and development and beginning with the Tanzimat period, started to give their fruits in the period of the constitutional era. This period with the emergence o...
SEARCH FOR COMMON IDENTITY IN EUROPE AND THIS SEARCH REFLECTION ON SUGGESTIONS OF PROVIDING TURKISH UNION
It defines a national identity that the individuals free themselves from “the sense of me” and feel that they belong to a society by obtaining “the sense of us”. The thoughts, way of living and dreams of a nation are ref...