Study Guide Applied Social Sciences
Areas of Specialization and
Career Opportunities of Social
Workers
Objectives:
• Enumerate and explain the nature of specific work areas of social
workers.
• Describe and analyze career opportunities for social workers.
Areas of Specialization
• Social workers have areas of specialization. This provides focus and
efficiency in addressing the concerns of the society.
Child, family, and school social work
• assisting children who were traumatized or abused
• counseling students who experienced unexpected life events
• assisting parent
child welfare – provisional programs and services for the children’s physical,
social, psychological, spiritual, and cultural development
adoption – provided with substitute care or permanent parental care
legal guardship – guardian until the child reaches 18 years old
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, foster care – looks for foster family; prepares the child to reunify or if there’s no
replacement
residential care – temporary care when parents can’t provide it
family welfare – interventions and programs for stability of families
schools – focuses on students’ concerns, especially social or emotional
causes that may interfere in their academic life
Community social work
• building infrastructures for the community
• fundraising activities
• coordination with government and nongovernment organizations
community welfare – provides programs to uplift the lives of the people
cultural communities – address the following issues:
• poverty
• health and disease
• lack of education
• vulnerability to natural disaster
• trauma assistance
industry and labor – provide services for improving social security, health, and
welfare of employees and their families
Hospice and palliative social work
• services for the terminally ill
• pain management for the sick
• coping strategies for the patient’s relatives
• processing traumatic events
Medical and health social workers
• assist patients with limited resources
• solve issues regarding illness and treatment
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Areas of Specialization and
Career Opportunities of Social
Workers
Objectives:
• Enumerate and explain the nature of specific work areas of social
workers.
• Describe and analyze career opportunities for social workers.
Areas of Specialization
• Social workers have areas of specialization. This provides focus and
efficiency in addressing the concerns of the society.
Child, family, and school social work
• assisting children who were traumatized or abused
• counseling students who experienced unexpected life events
• assisting parent
child welfare – provisional programs and services for the children’s physical,
social, psychological, spiritual, and cultural development
adoption – provided with substitute care or permanent parental care
legal guardship – guardian until the child reaches 18 years old
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, foster care – looks for foster family; prepares the child to reunify or if there’s no
replacement
residential care – temporary care when parents can’t provide it
family welfare – interventions and programs for stability of families
schools – focuses on students’ concerns, especially social or emotional
causes that may interfere in their academic life
Community social work
• building infrastructures for the community
• fundraising activities
• coordination with government and nongovernment organizations
community welfare – provides programs to uplift the lives of the people
cultural communities – address the following issues:
• poverty
• health and disease
• lack of education
• vulnerability to natural disaster
• trauma assistance
industry and labor – provide services for improving social security, health, and
welfare of employees and their families
Hospice and palliative social work
• services for the terminally ill
• pain management for the sick
• coping strategies for the patient’s relatives
• processing traumatic events
Medical and health social workers
• assist patients with limited resources
• solve issues regarding illness and treatment
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