Answer the questions:
1. What is social work?
2. What way does social work operate?
3. What does social work collaborate with?
4. What is the main task of social work?
5. What are the main values and principles of social work?
Now you have some ideas about social work. Continue the sentences:
- Social work collaborates with …
- The main task of social work is…
- Social work makes a particular contribution in situations…
-… applies specialist analytical skills.
Translate into English:
- Социальная работа - утвержденная профессиональная дисциплина, нацеленная на улучшение и сохранение благосостояния детей, взрослых, семей и сообществ.
- Социальная работа состоит из набора основных ценностей и принципов.
- Социальная работа частично работает с ситуациями высокого уровня сложности, неуверенности, напряжения.
- Для работы в таких ситуациях от специалиста требуются аналитические навыки и знания, и способность принимать сложные решения.
Translate the sentence and write down all types of questions:
Social work embodies a set of core values and principles.
Explain the meaning of the following word combinations and terms used in the text:
social policy
social work
social care
Unit 2. Social Work Profession
There are a lot of professions in the modern world. Different people choose different professions. Why did you choose social work?
Look at this drawing. What associations do you connect with these types of professions? What type does social work profession belong to?
Profession
person
- to-person
person-
sign systems
person
- equipment
person
- nature
person
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Read and translate the text using the vocabulary bellow:
Social Work Profession
Social work is emerging as an important profession in the modern world. It is committed to the enhancement of human well-being and to the alleviation of poverty and oppression.
The basic functions of social work are restoration, provision of resources, and prevention. Restoration of impaired social functioning may be subdivided into curative and rehabilitative aspects. Its curative aspects are to eliminate factors that have caused breakdown of functioning, and its rehabilitative aspects, to recognize and rebuild interactional patterns.
Provision of resources, social and individual, for morе effective social functioning may be subdivided into developmental and educational. The developmental aspects аrе designed to further the effectiveness of existing social resources оr to bring to full flower реrsonal capacity for more effective social interaction. The educational spectrum is designed to acquaint the public with specific conditions and needs for new оr changing social resources.
The third function, prevention of social dysfunction, involves early discovery, соntrol, and elimination of conditions and situations that potentially could hamper effective social functioning. The two main divisions аrе: prevention of problems in the аrea of interaction between individuals and groups, and the second, the prevention of social ills. Prevention of social ills ordinarily falls within the аrea of community organization.