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Methods of working in social work have evolved over a long period, rooted in common core principles but reflecting changing legal and policy frameworks, social attitudes and expectations, and relationships between professionals and the public. Key features include:

- professional relationships based on warmth, trust and rapport with people using services;

- social models of assessing people’s situations and working with them to overcome barriers to participation and independence;

- practice that seeks to put power in the hands of people to manage their own situations, with the social worker as facilitator;

- work that integrates individual, family and community dimensions in a creative balance;

- distinctive approaches to understanding and working with risk, recognizing the need to safeguard those who are vulnerable whilst enabling people to take the risks that go with ordinary everyday living;

- modern approaches to established casework skills and methodologies, working systematically and in an integrated way to keep a focus on people’s practical, social and psychological wellbeing;

- applying and extending principles of personalization, which have always been at the heart of social work at its best, to help people find individual solutions to their situations and achieve satisfactory outcomes;

- effective joint working with other disciplines, other social care staff, volunteers, foster parents and advocates.

VOCABULARY

1. evolve over – развиваться в течение (периода времени). 2. root in – корениться в чем-либо. 3. reflect – отражать. 4. rapport – взаимопонимание. 5. assess – оценка, оценивать. 6. participation – участие. 7. facilitator – стимулятор. 8. dimension – измерение. 9. distinctive – четкий, ясный. 10. vulnerable – уязвимый. 11. establish – устанавливать, учреждать, основывать. 12. keep a focus on – сосредоточить внимание на чем-либо. 13. solution – решение. 14. outcome – результат. 15. foster – приемный.

II.Ответьте на вопросы.

1. What is the base of methods of working in social work? 2. What are the key features of social work? 3. What are the most important of them in your opinion? 4. What features do you want to develop in yourself? 5. What is the portrait of professional social worker?

Unit 11

LARGE FAMILIES AS OBJECT OF SOCIAL WORK

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Social work is carried out with the following types of families: large families, incomplete families affected by the Chernobyl disaster, socially disadvantaged families (unemployed, families consisting of alcohol and drug addicts, and others.); families where there are disabled; families and foster families and other caregivers.

Determining the forms and methods of social work, technology, social work with family life caused by a cycle of marriage age, family composition, social status of spouses, social and socio-psychological problems that arise at different stages of family life to some individual case or situation faced by family members, individual characteristics, peculiarities of psychophysical sphere, social maturity, level and scale of negative or positive influence of the social environment and so on.

Study the social situation of the family

Social work with the family based on her research as a small social group. At the macro level, when considering the family as a social institution study: social consciousness in marriage and family relations, generalized characteristics of family behavior of certain groups on a variety of economic and cultural conditions, the impact of social needs to the nature of relationships and family life, causes and effects of insufficiently high efficiency operation of the family under certain conditions; social mechanism of change of family norms and values; the effectiveness of the implementation of the family its main functions in different political, socio-economic and cultural conditions; value model of family norms and values and actual behavior of the family and so on.d.

At the meso level studied the conditions of formation, structure and stages of development of the modern family, division of responsibilities in the family, divorce causes and motives of others. In the study of family structure are used not only quantitative indicators such as family composition, the number of generations, but also qualitative characteristics: a measure of cohesion, the nature of family interaction, the distribution of social roles and rule the family structure of family communication, etc. . At this level, social work investigates the different functions of the family, the couple's ability to implement them in the process of living together: educational, economic-household, spiritual communion, reproductive, financial security, games, organizational and others. Important for understanding the social and psychological problems of marriage is to study the influence of social environment on family functioning. Sotsionomiya explores these social problems of modern families: reduction of marriage; increase in the number of divorces and couples who live separately; spread phenomenon extramarital life; raising illegitimate births; the increasing number of single-parent families (one parent, usually - the mother); overload one-child family; overload working women on household duties; the increasing number of low-income families; family norm; structure relationships; social and psychological consequences of divorce for both spouses, divorces, and for their entourage; family relationships in the family and so on.

At the micro social work investigates the social and socio-psychological problems of marriage, have diagnostic work as an important stage of social assistance and support.