OLIVAREZ COLLEGE TAGAYTAY

E. Aguinaldo Hi-Way, Crossing Silang, Tagaytay City

WEEKLY LESSON PLAN (WLP)
1st SEMESTER S.Y. 2023-2024

Subject Code: HUMSS 008

Subject Description: Disciplines and Ideas in the Applied Social Sciences
Week : 6
Inclusive Teaching Dates: September 25-29, 2023
I. Objectives
A. Content Standard:
The learners demonstrate an understanding of…
● Disciplines of Social Work
B. Performance Standards:
The learners should be able to…
● Demonstrate a high level of understanding of the basic concepts of social work through a
group presentation of a situation in which practitioners of social work collaborate to
assist individuals, groups, or communities involved in difficult situations (e.g., post-
disaster, court hearing about separation of celebrity couple, cyberbullying).
C. Learning Competencies/Objectives:
The learners should be able to…
● Identify the goals and scope of social work.

● Demonstrate comprehension of the principles of social work.

● Discuss the core values of social work.

II. Content (Topic Covered)
● The Discipline of Social Work
1.1. Social work
1.2 Definitions
1.3 Goals
1.4 Scope
1.5 Core values
1.6 Principles
III. Learning Resources
● Arcinas ,PhD. M.M. (2016). Disciplines and Ideas in the Applied Social Sciences.
Quezon, Philippines: Phoenix Publishing House, Inc.
● Dela Cruz A.R.; Fernandez C.; Melegrito M.L. Valdez Discipline and Ideas in Applied
Social Sciences Phoenix Publishing House
IV. Procedures:

A. Reviewing previous lesson Recall the lesson from the last meeting in the Discipline and
or presenting the new lesson Ideas in the Applied Social Sciences about Settings,
Processes, Methods and Tools in Counseling.

B. Establishing a purpose for Motivation

the lesson Give Your Insights
Directions: Give your insights about the pictures showing
scenarios that are in relation to social work.
C. Presenting Based on the picture, answer the following guide questions:
examples/instances of the new ● What can you say about the picture/s?
lesson
● What makes it social work?
D. Discussing new concepts
and practicing new skills # 1 ● Presenting Powerpoint Presentation about Discipline
of Social Work

● Upload and read the Powerpoint Presentation about

Discipline of Social Work
Discipline of Social Work
• The National Association of Social Workers
(NASW), defined social work as the professional
activity of helping individuals, groups or
communities enhance or restore their capacity for
personal interaction with their environment and
creating societal conditions beneficial to the mission.
• The United Nations of Economic Social and Cultural
Organization (UNESCO, 2000), considers social
work as a field within human services and a part of
services of the government.
• The International Federation of Social Works (IFSW,
2006), defines social work as a practice-based and
academic discipline that promotes change and social
development. (Retrieved from
http://www.sacssp.co.za/)
• Australian Association of Social Workers (AASW),
as cited in Cox & Pawar, 2006) defines social work
as a practical profession designed at helping people
address their problems and matching them with the
resources they need to lead healthy and productive
lives.
• The International Association of Schools of Social
Work (IASSW), states that the social work
profession promotes social change, problem solving
in human relationships, and the empowerment and
liberation of people to enhance well-being. (IFSW &
IASSW, 2004 as cited in Co & Pawar, 2006).
Goals of Social Work
The primary mission of the social work profession is to
develop human beings and assist other institutions in
attaining the basic human needs of people and in
empowering the lost, the least and the last. These goals are
outlined and described below:
1. The Goal on Caring
Caring refers to the heart of social work and it
centers on the well-being or the welfare and comfort of the
individual and community. Ex. Volunteers of the Philippine
 Red Cross (PRC) form part of an active corps of capable,
caring people by sharing their resources, time and efforts to
alleviate human suffering.
2. The Goal on Curing
Curing refers to the aspect of treating people with
problems in their social environment (Ex. Counseling and
Therapy).
3. The Goal on Changing
Changing refers to the active participation of the
social workers in social reforms (Ex. Promoting social
change and justice).
E. Discussing new concepts Scope of Social Work
and practicing new skill # 2 To supplement your understanding of the value of
social work, it is important to study the scope of social
work. The scope of social work includes:
1. Child development Social Work
2. Medical Social Work
3. Clinical Social Work
4. Social work administration and management
5. International Social Work
6. Social Work as a community organizer
7. Women welfare
8. Crisis intervention
9. Criminal Justice
Morales and Sheafor (1998, 8th edition) identified
and described the fields included in the area of social
work, which are as follows:
1. Social Work as a Primary Discipline
In terms of child welfare, social work offers:
a. The adoption and services to unmarried parents – the
difficult decision of unmarried parents whether to keep
the baby or place the child for adoption.
b. The foster care – removes the children from their home
and places them temporarily in foster care.
c. The residential care – a group care home or a residential
treatment center for children
d. The support in own homes – provides support services in
order to keep the children in their own homes
e. The protective services – protect the child from child
abuse, maltreatment, and exploitation by one or both parents.
2. Social Work as an Equal Partner
Aging, social work offers:
a. The support for people in their own homes
program consists of helping older people remain in their own
homes by linking them with community programs that bring
health care services into their homes.
b. The support for people in long-term care facilities
programs refers to nursing home care services into their
homes.
Community services, social work offers:
a. Community organization
b. Community planning
c. Community development
3. Social Work as Secondary Discipline
Industry, social workers act as:
a. Support to both the managers and the employees of
the companies. They make themselves available to the
employees with social problems for individual, family and
group counseling.
 b. Provide information to the managers as basis for
management decisions that might have an impact on the
social atmosphere in the working environment
Core Values of Social Work
The National Association of Social Workers
(NASW) stated that the mission of the social work
profession is rooted in a set of core values. These core values
include: service, social justice, dignity and worth of the
person, importance of human relationships, integrity and
competence (Morales and Sheafor, 1998 8th edition).
F. Developing mastery (Leads
to Formation Assessment 3) Reflective Journal
Directions: Write your own reflection in essay form by
answering the guide questions provided below.
If you were a social worker by profession in the near future,
What particular core values of social work are you willing to
apply in your life? And why?
G. Finding practical
applications of concepts and What is the purpose of knowing the core values of social
skills in daily living work in our daily living?

H. Making generalization and Based on what you have learned, how will you elaborate the
abstraction about the lesson Discipline of Social work?

I. Evaluating learning True or False

Directions: Read and analyze each statement. Write T if you
think the statement is TRUE. If false, change the underline
word or group of words to make the whole statement true.
1. Social work is a profession that deals with the
person’s interaction with their environment.
2. The principal mission of the social work profession is
to develop human beings and assist other institutions
in attaining the basic human needs of the people and
in empowering the lost, the least and the last.
3. Among the distinctive goals of social work is curing
which refers to the heart of social work.
4. Caring refers to the heart of social work and it
focuses on the well-being or the welfare and comfort
of the individual and community.
5. Changing involves the active participation of the
social workers in social reform.
Answer:
1. T
2. T
3. CARING
4. T
5. T
J. Additional activities for Read in advance about Professionals and Practitioners in Social
application or remediation Work provided in the Google Classroom.

V. Remarks:
VI. Reflection
A. No. of learners who earned 80% on the
formative assessment

B. No. of learners who require additional

activities for remediation

C. Did the remedial lesson work? No. of

learners who have caught up with the lessons

D. No. of learners who continue to require

remediation

E. Which of my teaching strategies worked

well?

F. What difficulties did I encounter which my

principal or supervisor can help me solve?

G. What innovation or localized materials did I

use/discover which I wish to share with other
teachers?

Prepared by:

MR. GERALD M. TOLEDO

MR. JOHN LESTER P. CUBILE
(Faculty)

Checked by:

MS.JOSELYN R. CAINONG
HUMSS Strand Coordinator

Approved by:

MS. CLARENCE A. CASTILLO, LPT

Principal