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7.3 Goals and Scope of Social Work

The document outlines the goals and scope of social work according to DuBois and Miley, which include empowering individuals and communities to solve problems, advocating for social policies to prevent issues, upholding professional integrity, promoting social justice and equality, contributing to the development of knowledge through research, and embracing a world view of human issues and solutions. The overall goal is to help individuals fully participate in society and transform systems that marginalize people from resources, seeking changes that better both individuals and communities.

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7.3 Goals and Scope of Social Work

The document outlines the goals and scope of social work according to DuBois and Miley, which include empowering individuals and communities to solve problems, advocating for social policies to prevent issues, upholding professional integrity, promoting social justice and equality, contributing to the development of knowledge through research, and embracing a world view of human issues and solutions. The overall goal is to help individuals fully participate in society and transform systems that marginalize people from resources, seeking changes that better both individuals and communities.

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7.

3 Goals and Scope of


Social Work

MONTEJO, MARGARETTE NICOLE M.


CASIMERO, JOIME VHELLE C.
CHRISTOPER ESTRELLADO
LAWRENCE BORJAL
DuBois and Miley(2008) highlight the following goals
and scope of social work calling them tenets.

Empower people, individually and collectively,


to utilize their own problem-solving and
coping capabilities more effectively.
Support a proactive position with regard to
social and economic policy development to
prevent problems for individuals and society
from occurring.
Uphold the integrity of the profession in all
aspects of social work practice.
Develop cooperative networks within the
institutional resources system.
Facilitate the responsiveness of the
institutional resource systems to meet health
and human service needs.
Promote social justice and equality of all
people with regard to full participation in
society.
Contribute to the development of knowledge
for social work profession through research
and evaluation.
Encourage exchange of information in those
institutional systems in which both problems
and resources opportunities are produced.
Enhance communication through an
appreciation of diversity and through ethically
sensitive, non-sexist social work practice.
Employ educational strategies for the
prevention and resolution of problems.
Embrace a world view of human issues and
solutions to problems.
 The Goal and scope of social work as laid
down here is noble and broad--- to help an
individual be included in society and to
transform the very society that creates
structures that marginalize individuals from full
participation in the enjoyment of social services
and resources of the community. Change
sought is one that makes an individual and the
community a better place for everyone.

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