Prepare a document and address the following points: What social work values are
ID: 131752 • Letter: P
Question
Prepare a document and address the following points: What social work values are most central to you? How should they be incorporated into social policies? Social workers engaged in social policy practice experience defeats and partial successes in their work. How do you plan to deal with these sorts of experiences throughout your social work career? What barriers to client involvement in social policy formation do you foresee? How would you address these barriers? In an ideal world, what social policy would you like to see? What would it take to make progress towards that goal? Your submission should be a minimum of four paragraphs in length.
Explanation / Answer
Solution:
Two social values which are core to me:
Integrity
Dignity and worth of the individual
We have to work with many disparate groups ranging from donors to the clienteles whom we have to serve. There are many times when in order to make a social change faster, you may have an opportunity to quote or claim additional benefits, numbers or any type of exaggeration. At that time, your integrity will come in to play: Integrity is closelt linked with facts. Integrity is also linked with a strong work ethics, honoring time bound traditions and the like. We deal with many groups. We need to ensure that we have to work with them. It should not appear to them that you are doing some favour or are being looked down upon. If you have decided to uphold the dignity of each and every human being, the path is easier.
Regards partial success and failures, one needs to consider that these all are human interventions and may take time and effort. There is no obligation of targetted groups to act as per your wishes. Human change takes time. I would prefer to keep the end goal in mind and will continously work towards it.
In an ideal world, my social policy will not only reflect the above two aims but also ensures a complete social justice. In today's worlds, over the last four five decades, the real bargaining powers of skilled and semi skilled people have gone down. Its results are for everyone to see. Purchasing power in those segments is completely gone. I would try to ensure that we have a "Humane capitalism" instead of a cut throat hire and fire one.
One of the few ways to do that is retraining of the workforce, ensuring and working with corporates to ensure a higher minimum wages as per living standards etc.