Ontological Assumptions Underpinning Social Work
What is Social Work?
Introduction
Social work is considered a professional activity, which deals with assisting whole families or individuals. Social work takes place in various settings such as day centers and hospices. It should be noted that social work is connected with the services that local authorities provide to people in some other countries such as the United States.
Four types of social work have been identified, and they include structural, conventional, anti-oppressive, and radical social work. Different ontological assumptions facilitate the understanding of different theoretical perspectives underpinning social work. These include modernism, pre-modernism, and post-modernism. Ontological assumptions aid in explaining …show more content…
These ontological assumptions facilitate in explaining different worldviews, on the basis of which the theoretical perspectives are grounded. It should be noted that different individuals hold different views with regard to social work.
Social work is grounded on key ideas that include integrity, human relations, worth of a person, competence, service, and social justice. According to Gillingham (2007, p 111), healthcare social workers are guided by these ideas and should uphold them while delivering their services to the community.
Theoretical perspectives that explain social work in relation to healthcare are similar in the manner they express values of healthcare social workers, and they have similar duties and responsibilities. They differ on the issue of remuneration of healthcare social workers. Some people believe that salaries should not play an important role in social work, while others point out that salaries are a source of motivation for social workers. Critics of social work have advanced their points on the basis of colonialism, post-colonialism, feminism, and feminist social …show more content…
Allan, J, Briskman, L & Pease, B 2009, Critical social work: theories and practices for a socially just world, revised ed, New York: Allen & Unwin.
Auslander, GK 1997, International perspectives on social work in health care: past, present, and future, illustrated ed, Routledge, London.
Beder, J 2006, Hospital social work: the interface of medicine and caring, illustrated ed, Routledge, London.
Carniol, B 2005, Case critical: social services & social justice in Canada, 5th ed, Between The Lines, London.
Chan, CLW & Rhind, N 1997, Social work intervention in health care: the
Hong Kong scene, illustrated ed, Hong Kong University Press, Hong
Kong.
Davies, L & Leonard, P 2004, Social work in a corporate era: practices of power and resistance, illustrated ed, Ashgate Publishing, Ltd., New York.
Dominelli, L 2004, Social work: theory and practice for a changing profession, reprinted, Polity Press, New York.
Fook, J. (2002). Social work: critical theory and practice, reprint ed, SAGE,
London.
Gillingham, P. (2007). The Australian association of social workers and
Introduction
Social work is considered a professional activity, which deals with assisting whole families or individuals. Social work takes place in various settings such as day centers and hospices. It should be noted that social work is connected with the services that local authorities provide to people in some other countries such as the United States.
Four types of social work have been identified, and they include structural, conventional, anti-oppressive, and radical social work. Different ontological assumptions facilitate the understanding of different theoretical perspectives underpinning social work. These include modernism, pre-modernism, and post-modernism. Ontological assumptions aid in explaining …show more content…
These ontological assumptions facilitate in explaining different worldviews, on the basis of which the theoretical perspectives are grounded. It should be noted that different individuals hold different views with regard to social work.
Social work is grounded on key ideas that include integrity, human relations, worth of a person, competence, service, and social justice. According to Gillingham (2007, p 111), healthcare social workers are guided by these ideas and should uphold them while delivering their services to the community.
Theoretical perspectives that explain social work in relation to healthcare are similar in the manner they express values of healthcare social workers, and they have similar duties and responsibilities. They differ on the issue of remuneration of healthcare social workers. Some people believe that salaries should not play an important role in social work, while others point out that salaries are a source of motivation for social workers. Critics of social work have advanced their points on the basis of colonialism, post-colonialism, feminism, and feminist social …show more content…
Allan, J, Briskman, L & Pease, B 2009, Critical social work: theories and practices for a socially just world, revised ed, New York: Allen & Unwin.
Auslander, GK 1997, International perspectives on social work in health care: past, present, and future, illustrated ed, Routledge, London.
Beder, J 2006, Hospital social work: the interface of medicine and caring, illustrated ed, Routledge, London.
Carniol, B 2005, Case critical: social services & social justice in Canada, 5th ed, Between The Lines, London.
Chan, CLW & Rhind, N 1997, Social work intervention in health care: the
Hong Kong scene, illustrated ed, Hong Kong University Press, Hong
Kong.
Davies, L & Leonard, P 2004, Social work in a corporate era: practices of power and resistance, illustrated ed, Ashgate Publishing, Ltd., New York.
Dominelli, L 2004, Social work: theory and practice for a changing profession, reprinted, Polity Press, New York.
Fook, J. (2002). Social work: critical theory and practice, reprint ed, SAGE,
London.
Gillingham, P. (2007). The Australian association of social workers and