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5.Summarize the idea of the text.

6.Answer the questions:

1.Whom do the professional social workers assist and what for?

2.Who can be named by «professional social workers»?

3.What do social workers help people overcome?

4.In what spheres of community life are professional social workers

found?

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SOCIAL WORK METHODS

AND APPROACHES

Цель занятия: развитие лексических навыков; повторение грамматического материала; развитие коммуникативных навыков с целью преодоления языковых барьеров в разговоре на английском языке.

В результате изучения темы студент должен:

–знать новую лексику по теме;

–уметь применить изученную лексику в процессе общения; работать в группе;

–владеть навыками диалогической речи; языковыми и предметными знаниями, необходимыми в межличностном и межкультурном общении на иностранном языке (ОК-2).

Актуальность темы: умение понять собеседника и поддержать разговор необходимо для эффективного межкультурного и межличностного общения в профессиональной деятельности.

Теоретическая часть

▪ Social Work Methods and Approaches

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 individu-

al solutions to their situations and achieve satisfactory outcomes;

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

Vocabulary notes

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.

Вопросы и задания

1.Read and translate the text.

2.Give the Russian equivalents to the following words and phrases:

Methods of working, rooted in common core principles, key features,

rapport with people using services, to put power in the hands of people, participation and independence, work that integrates individual, approaches to understanding and working with risk, to keep a focus on, applying and extending principles of personalization, find individual solutions, achieve satisfactory outcomes, effective joint working, foster parents.

3. Give the English equivalents to the following words and phrases:

Методы работы, уходящие корнями к общепринятым основным принципам, отражающие изменение правовой и политической структуры, отношения основанные на теплоте и доверии, преодолеть барьеры, социальный работник как посредник, осознавая потребность в защите, современные подходы, комплексно, принципы персонализации, эффективная совместная работа.

4. Complete the sentences with the phrases from the text:

1.Methods of working in social work … over a long period.

2.Key features include … based on warmth, trust and rapport with people using services

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3.Key features include practice that seeks … of people to manage their own situations, with the social worker as facilitator.

4.Key features include … to safeguard those who are vulnerable.

5.Key features include modern approaches to … and methodologies.

6.Key features include … find individual solutions to their situations and achieve satisfactory outcomes.

5.Summarize the idea of the text.

6.Answer the questions:

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?

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UNIT 13

TASKS OF SOCIAL WORK

Цель занятия: развитие лексических навыков; развитие и совершенствование навыков работы по тексту со словарем; развитие и совершенствование навыков чтения текста с целью детального понимания содержания.

В результате изучения темы студент должен:

–знать новую лексику по теме «Задачи социальной работы»;

–уметь работать с разными типами словарей; читать текст с целью детального понимания содержания;

–владеть навыками работы с разными типами словарей; навыками чтения текста с целью детального понимания содержания (ОК-2).

Актуальность темы: умение работать с разными типами словарей; читать текст с целью детального понимания содержания необходимы для развития навыков самообразования в профессиональной деятельности.

Теоретическая часть

▪ Tasks of Social Work

In order to undertake the roles described, and support people to fulfill their potential and achieve their chosen outcomes, social workers perform a variety of tasks. Not all of them are exclusive to social work, but social workers carry them out as an integral part of enabling people to achieve the outcomes they want. Some tasks are specific to work with adults, or with children and families. Many are common to work with people of all ages in many different settings and sectors. Often, both the children and the adults in a family need help or support, and the social worker has to be competent to understand and work with both children and adults.

Some of the principal tasks undertaken by social workers include:

a.building relationships with people who need support, winning their trust and finding good ways of communicating with them;

b.working with the person or family who needs support to help them assess their situation, decide what they want to achieve, overcome barriers, and obtain support that feels right for them;

c.aiding people who wish to do so to assess their own needs, identify resources, make decisions, and arrange and manage their own support;

d.providing or arranging advocacy for people who do not have a voice, and helping them to be more in control of their own lives;

e.helping parents develop the skills and understanding to be more effective in meeting their children’s needs for care, development and control;

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f.supporting the physical, intellectual and emotional development of children and young people who need help, and helping disadvantaged people of all ages improve their health and wellbeing;

g.helping children and adults to overcome the problems of disability, negotiate the transition to adulthood and achieve independent living, access direct payments, individual budgets and other funding, and secure personal assistance, equipment and employment adjustments;

h.helping people in poverty to improve their financial position, informing them about their entitlements, and supporting them to access training, work opportunities and benefits.

Vocabulary notes

1.undertake – предпринять.

2.fulfill – наполнить.

3.carry out – осуществить.

4.win smb’s trust – завоевать чье-либо доверие.

5.obtain – получить.

6.aid – помощь, помогать.

7.identify – идентифицировать, устанавливать, определять.

8.arrange – размещать, представлять, устраивать.

9.provide – обеспечивать.

10.disadvantage – недостаток.

11.improve – улучшать, совершенствовать.

12.negotiate – договариваться.

13.secure – безопасность.

14.adjustment – установка.

15.opportunity – возможность.

Вопросы и задания

1.Read and translate the text.

2.Give the Russian equivalents to the following words and phrases:

To undertake the roles described, support people to fulfill their potential, variety of tasks, an integral part, to achieve the outcomes, to work with people of all ages, both the children and the adults, finding good ways of communicating, assess their situation, arrange and manage their own support, providing or arranging advocacy, children’s needs for care, development and control, improve their health and wellbeing, negotiate the transition to adulthood, work opportunities and benefits, people in poverty.

3. Give the English equivalents to the following words and phrases:

Добиться результатов, различные задачи, работать с людьми всех возрастов, нуждаются в помощи и поддержке, завоевывая их доверие, оце-

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нить ситуацию, определить ресурсы, люди без права голоса, потребности детей, обездоленные люди, улучшить здоровье и благосостояние.

4. Translate the following text into Russian in the written form.

Social assistance

Social assistance is based on need and thus requires declarations of income, family size, and other circumstances. It is provided on the basis of a means test that takes into account not only income but also capital; persons with a specific level of saving may be ineligible. Alternatively it may be only income-tested, the income from capital being assessed in the same way as other income. Often those who have been given the task of operating the scheme (social workers) have been allowed considerable discretion in deciding whether to give assistance and how much to give in certain types of cases.

In other countries social assistance plays a considerable role in supplementing social insurance benefits for those without other sources of income such as sick pay or employers pension schemes as well as providing for those without rights to benefits or those whose benefits have run out because they are paid only for a specific number of months (unemployment benefits).

Partly because of this problem of stigma, social assistance programs are called by a variety of different names in the hope that they will be more acceptable to applicants. For example, the term used is supplementary benefit in the United Kingdom and GAIN (guaranteed income) in British Columbia.

Rules of social assistance differ considerably from country to country and are usually determined locally rather than centrally.

In the United Kingdom, where rules are determined centrally persons in full-time work are not eligible. In the United States only households headed by a single parent are eligible.

The United States used what is essentially the social assistance approach for meeting the medical care needs of low – income persons under the Medicaid program.

5.Summarize the idea of the text.

6.Answer the questions:

1)What do social workers perform to support people to fulfill their potential and achieve their chosen outcomes?

2)What do the principal tasks undertaken by social workers include?

3)Why are these principals so important?

4)Can you add some more principals?

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UNIT 14

SOCIAL SERVICES

Цель занятия: развитие лексических навыков; развитие и совершенствование коммуникативных навыков.

В результате изучения темы студент должен:

–знать терминологию по теме занятия;

–уметь применять на практике лексику, необходимую для деловой встречи с англоязычным партнером; работать в паре;

–владеть навыками диалогической речи, необходимыми в межличностном и межкультурном общении на иностранном языке (ОК-2).

Актуальность темы: знание профессиональной терминологии необходимо для эффективного межкультурного и межличностного общения в профессиональной деятельности.

Теоретическая часть

▪ The growth of social services

In medieval times in Europe, the Church was the only organized body which could try to relieve poverty. In fact, the Church, particularly through its monasteries, provided most of what are now known as the social services, especially education and the care of the poor and the sick. The guilds and manors also played their part. In country areas, the lord of the manor often made himself responsible for helping the poor and needy.

This system broke down in some European countries and also in England in the 16th century. In 1601 the English parliament passed the act which has become known as the Elizabethan Poor Law. This aimed to keep law and order and made arrangements for money to be raised and used to help the aged, orphans, and the unemployed. But poor-law assistance was always grudgingly offered, for people were regarded as somehow responsible for their poverty and were harshly treated by the authorities. Moreover, it was considered shameful to have to depend on financial assistance in order to survive. It was only in the late 19th century that social and welfare services became widely available and, even then, not in all countries.

A hundred years earlier people had begun to think more about the rights of the individual human being. The appalling conditions caused by the Industrial Revolution in England made people aware of the urgent need for social reform. Elizabeth Fry and Lord Shaftesbury among others were notable social reformers. Charles Booth, a successful businessman became concerned with social problems and tried to understand how people lived,

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what they wanted, and how these wants could be satisfied. He conducted a survey which revealed some shocking facts. More than 30 % per cent of London families were desperately poor. Their poverty was not a result of crime, drink, or laziness – in other words, they did not bring it upon themselves, as many people in those days thought. Their poverty was due to lack of work, accidents, death of the husband or breadwinner, failed businesses, old age, and illness. Booth's survey provided much of the information needed by various social service organizations then establishing themselves and trying to improve the situation.

Vocabulary notes

1.almoner – 1. ист. раздающий милостыню (должностное лицо при двореилирелигиознойорганизации);2. уст. работниксферысоциального обслуживания

2.hospital almoner – уст. работник сферы социального обслуживания, ведающий оплатой лечения и бытовым обслуживанием больных

3.medical almoner – уст. работник сферы социального обслуживания, ведающий оплатой лечения и бытовым обслуживанием больных

4.aged – престарелый

5.alms – милостыня

6.charitable work – благотворительная работа

7.guardian – опекун, попечитель

8.Poor Law – ист. закон о бедных

9.orphan – сирота

10.overseer – надзиратель, надсмотрщик

11.poor – бедный

12.ист. guardian of the poor – попечитель бедных

13.ист. overseer of the poor – попечитель по призрению бедных

14.poverty – бедность

15.official – должностное лицо, служащий

16.sick – больной

17.unemployed – безработный

18.welfare – благополучие

19.welfare officer – работник по вопросам социального обеспечения

20.welfare state – государство всеобщего благосостояния

Вопросы и задания

1.Read and translate the text.

2.Give the English equivalents to the following words and phrases:

Облегчить бедность; забота о бедных и больных; помощь бедным и

нуждающимся; поддерживать закон и порядок; неохотно предоставлять помощь; грубо обращаться; острая необходимость; отсутствие работы.

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3. Finish the sentences, using the following words and expressions. the social services; to relieve poverty; social and welfare services; pov-

erty; law and order.

1.In medieval times in Europe, the Church was the only organized body which could try ….

2.The Church provided most of what are now known as ….

3.This aimed to keep … and made arrangements for money to be used to help the aged, orphans, and the unemployed.

4.In the late 19th century … became widely available.

5.Their … was due to lack of work, accidents, death of the husband or breadwinner, failed businesses, old age, and illness.

4. Translate the following text into Russian in the written form.

Social services and the church

As Russia undergoes a period of lost ideals and spiritual degradation, one of the ways to revive the community’s spiritual life can be found in a closer cooperation between the Church and social pedagogues and workers.

The project can also benefit from the public’s growing religious awareness, a process which is likely to continue in future. The Church's social activities have more and more influence on various aspects of our social life. That is why there is a great amount of practical and academic interest in what we can learn from traditions created by a national institution which has many centuries of experience in social activities, i.e. the Church. For over a thousand years, the Church has been an influence on every day life and released social tensions by words of wisdom and charity. By helping those in grief, the Church helps the community to live in peace and harmony. After seventy years of administrative purges and bans, the Church is now free to exert its influence over various spheres: education, culture, politics, economy and charity.

All this makes all important the program «Religion as a Factor of Harmonizing Social Relations». Under the program, the Church is to play an important role in social life. However, Russia a country of various religions, the program takes into account the influence exercised by other religions. The program focuses on extensive studies of the practice of social activities performed by religious organizations, and their present typical features. It is also aimed at developing theoretical and practical recommendations and models of cooperation between social services and spiritual arms in various regions.

The research project is to help establish more extensive ties with church institutions and religious communities in the country. As a result, it will give an additional impetus to such contacts between social pedagogues and scientists, on the one hand, and the clergy and religious people, on the other, enriching them with new concepts and forms of cooperation.

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