My Assigned Duties as an Apprentice Social Work

• Duties from the Institute Supervisor
• Duties that are performed During Field Work 
• Duties from the Agency Supervisor 

Field work is an integral part of the total social work education. As an apprentice social worker we have to face to field work every year. So I was sent to Eco-Social Development Organization (ESDO) from institute of Social Welfare & Research. I was to maintain some rules and regulations both of institute & agency supervisor. Firstly, they directed me, which work should be performed. Such as: 

Programs of ESDO

• Micro Finance Program
• Rural Micro Credit (RMC)
• Urban Micro Credit (UMC)
• Participatory Livestock Development Project (PLDP2)
• Micro Enterprise Lending (MEL)
• Financial Services for the poorest (FSP)
• Micro Credit for Ultra Poor Program (UPP)
• Micro Finance for Marginal and Small Farmers Projects (MFMSFP)
• Seasonal Loan
• Livelihood Restoration Project (LRP)
• Programmed Initiative for Monga Eradication (PRIME)
• Agriculture-Sector Microcredit Project (ASMP)
• Disaster Management and Climate Change Adaptation Programme
• Food Security Programme
• Agricultural Development Programme
• Education Programme
• Health and Nutrition Programme
• Rights and Governance Programme
• ESDO Enterprise
• Strengths of ESDO

Inter-relationship between Social Work Education and Field Work

Mutual relationship between social work education and practice:

Modern social work education has two dimensions: theoretical and practical. A social worker gains knowledge about society, social problems, property, social structure, social values, human behavior, social work process when practical training enable them to use this knowledge acquired knowledge in this field for real life purposes. Thus practical training is required for social worker to solve social problems of human beings/society for modern social work.

Importance of Field Work in Social Work Education

Field work is important that students should be helped to develop the attitude of mind ideas them to make connections between study & relief…it is needed vital that this should be done if students are to become professional practitioners in the field rather than goods nature & amateurs of techniques applying narrow skills by rule of thumbs method. (Robert, 1995) 

Field practicum is a dynamic course that challenges students to apply social work knowledge, skills & values within an organizational context. It is a vital dimension of students graduate & post graduate social work education. 

Concept of Field Work with Historical Background & Objectives

Information about field work:

Field work is a peer supervises of learning process a qualitative study qualitative, quantitative data or information. Knowledge synthesizes and integrates knowledge what is learning in the class room or in laboratory (human services). 

Field work is an integral part of the social work education. Historically the profession of social work has considered field work a primary means of providing student opportunity to acquire knowledge value and skills. Simply we can say field work refers the process or approach in which social knowledge, value, principles and other social work related discipline are exercised in the arena of social service welfare and sustainable development.

Concept of Social Work-Characteristics,Aims & Objectives

• Concept 
• Characteristics 
• Three rings of Social Work
• Chart of up gradation of Social work discipline

Man lives in society. It is the collection of individuals united by certain relations or mode of behaviour which mark them off from others who do not enter into these relations or who differ from in behaviour. It is also a complex web of social relations. This relation is the result of interaction of social people. Society is changeable. When social people can’t keep pace with social change properly, they face, especially in industrialized society, multifarious problems which require professional, knowledge based & sustainable solution. To meet these problems effectively, social work has been emerged.

Contents for field work project report for (Social Science Department)

TABLE OF CONTENTS FOR FIELD WORK PROJECT REPORT

Title
Introducing about medical social work
Medical Social Work
Objectives of Medical Social Work
Purposes of Medical Social Work
The Assigned field work agency social welfare outreach project (SWOP)
Introducing World Vision
Vision Statement of World Vision
Goals and Strategies of World Vision
Organizational Values
The Funding
World Vision: Serving in Bangladesh over the past 30 years
Involvement in Bangladesh
Introducing social welfare outreach project
Purpose
Major objectives
Major Activities
How SWOP addresses the objective activities
Major Achievements and Future Forgets
Major Challenges
Administrative structure of SWOP
My participation as Field work practitioner in SWOP
Duties given to me
Works done by me
Practical application of social work methods and techniques while working in the agency
Long and Short cases Studies
Long Cases
Short Cases
Existing problems with the agency and necessary recommendations
Problems in field practice of the agency
Common problems of SWOP patients
Remedy in solving problems
Practical experience from the field work practice
Self Evaluation
Conclusion

Practical Experience from the Field Work Practice(Self-Evolution & Failure)

• Practical Experience 
• Self-Evolution 
• Failure
• Conclusion

Practical Experience from the Field Work Practice: 

Correlation between theoretical knowledge and practical knowledge is professional education is essential. Social work is a profession. So a social worker has to acquire knowledge from real environment on subjects like the nature of human behaviors, social relation, cultural values, environments etc. Only field work practice gives this opportunity to trainee social worker. The experience I gathered in accomplishing my duties and works on the field work practice at SWOP are the following:

Problems and Remedy in Solving Problem of SWOP Patients in Field Practice of the Agency

SWOP Patients in Field Practice-Problems and Remedy  

Problems in Field Practice of the Agency:

There is no end of problems in this problem-oriented world. There are always some varied limitations in every agency. But, it can be said without any hesitation that administrative problem in Non-government Service-providing institution is very less than Government Service-providing institution. So, the rate of problems in these institutions is less in number. Besides, working in SWOP as my Field Work Practice Agency, I found some problems and these are the following:

Short Cases studies-Participation as Fieldwork (Practitioner in SWOP)

The case studies of a Social Welfare department student Participation as Fieldwork to make a field work report is really helpful for not only the Dhaka University (D.U) students but also all who study in Social Welfare department.

Short Case-1 

Case Name: Banesa Khatun 

Sponsored ID No: 2377

1. Logical Basis of the Case Selection:  

Banesa Khatun is the patient of (SWOP) Social Welfare Outreach Project. Now she is taking treatment under (BSMMU)/ PG Hospital, when I went to SWOP as field worker on 03/02/09. I met Banesa. From her, I came to know that she has been suffering from chronic Hepatitis B (wild type) Since 2007. I am a field worker of (SWOP). So I decide, I take her as a short case.

Participation as Fieldwork (Practitioner in SWOP with two Long Cases Studies)

Long Case Studies as a Participation as Fieldwork (Practitioner in SWOP)

Long Case-1 

Case Name: Resma Akter 

Sponsored ID No: 433

1. Rationale of taking the case:

As my daily routine field work activity, I went to SWOP and paid a to SWOP hostel. I went to the office room, when the project manager read out morning report, I knew about Resma. I talked to her about her physical condition. She told me that she has been suffering from Burned contracture with both hands. To know about her diseases and to help her in treatment I took her as a long case.

Practical Application of Social work Methods and Techniques while working in the Agency

Methods and Techniques for Practical Application of Social work 

Social work method is a comprehensive process. Generally Social work method is means the scientific process that is applied for the welfare of the society. So, social work method is the orderly application of social work knowledge, philosophy, ethics and values for solving social problems and overall welfare of the society. That is why, through this social workers can apply their professionals knowledge. So, it helps to make a steady solve of the social problems. The six methods that are applied in social work are the following.

Practitioner in SWOP-My Participation as Fieldwork

Duties given to me and works done by me as a Practitioner in SWOP

Duties Given To Me: 

• As a trainee social worker, the Institute of social welfare and Research (ISWR) of Dhaka University sent me to Social Welfare Outreach Project (SWOP) for gaining experience and skill by applying the acquired knowledge from social welfare into practical field. The duties that are given to me in sixty (60) days field work practice are the following– 
• To gain or acquire knowledge on the agency, its background, aims and objectives, its programs, its funding or source of money, its administrative structure, it future plans etc. 
• To organize the treatment of patients in hospitals, to look after them to hospitalize seriously ill patients and to serve medicines and other necessary goods along with the child care officers. 
• To take interviews of both the patients and their guardians as a helper to childcare officers and to help him in the preparation of care history. 

Administrative Structure,Major achievements,Challenge of SWOP

• Major achievements
• Major Future Target
• Major Challenge
• Administrative Structure

Major achievements and Future Target of Social Welfare: 

• Treatment of more than twenty thousand patients of various diseases since its inception. 
• Maintained strong liaison and good relationships with renowned medical specialists, experts, hospitals, clinics and pathological or diagnostic centers. 
• Established hostel facilities for the 45 patients and their attendants at SWOP office for a short-term living during the medical investigations and treatment of the patients. 

Social Welfare Outreach project-Purpose,Major Objectives & Activities

Purpose,Major Objectives and Activities of Social Welfare Outreach project

• Introducing of Social Welfare Outreach project
• Purpose
• Major Objectives
• Major Activities
• How SWOP address the objectives/Activities

Introducing of Social Welfare Outreach project:

The Social Welfare Outreach Project (SWOP) is a special health care project of World Vision Bangladesh. The project had started in 1985 with a view to provide secondary and Tertiary treatment Services for sponsored, non-sponsored children, their families and the poor and oppressed community members who come from different ADPs/ Projects.

World Vision Bangladesh (Social welfare Outreach Project-SWOP)

Goals and Strategies,Organization values and Involvement in Bangladesh

• Introducing of World Vision
• Vision Statement of World Vision
• Goals and Strategies of World Vision
• Organization values
• World Vision: Serving in Bangladesh over the past 30 years
• Involvement in Bangladesh

Introducing of World Vision:

Bangladesh is a small and descent populated country of the world. The total population of Bangladesh is 129.2 million 47 thousand 243 and of these population about 49.80 live below poverty level these people have constitution and fundamental rights. But our government could not fulfill the needs of food and cloth of a goods some of people so it is beyond their needs to ensure health service and education singly. For this, a member of NGO local, national and international grew-up or came to Bangladesh with their novel purpose of providing educating and health services to these (people) and helpless people and world vision Bangladesh is one of them. World Vision Bangladesh tools a special programme known as Social Welfare Outreach Project (SWOP) which is undoubtedly playing an important role in the field of medical social work in Bangladesh and I think they are doing will SWOP family are always devoted to help these people with their utmost effort, love and respect. Now-a-days thousand of poor diseased people all over Bangladesh are getting medical service and also a good some of people is leading a sound careful life.

Objectives and Purposes of Medical Social Work

Medical Social Work (Hospital Social Work) 

Until the early 1900s Social work practice in the United States was based in the community. Social workers addressed public health problems. Such as tuberculosis and infant mortality, Syphilis, Polio and Unmarried Pregnancy beginning in the 1889, primarily through affiliation with agencies (Cannon, 1952 Kerson, 1981, Nacman, 1977) Jane Addoms organized a medical dispensary at Hull-House Settlement in 1893 (Brocht 1978), but except to isolated instance. Social workers were not permitted in hospitals until several years later. During the education of city hospital from almshouse to hospital in 1891, Fred Golden Bogen of the Cleveland city welfare department was assigned to set up records at hospital so that patients could be identified by name and relatives could be notified incase at death (Wagner, 1977). The in 1900 William Henry, doctors of the city outdoor relief department assisted the hospital in clearing wards, clogged by chronic patient and by homeless civil war veteray thereby demonstrating the value of social services to the hospital by freeing beds occupied by unwelcome boarders then at that moment hospital social work start.

“Medical Social Work is the application of social work knowledge, skill, attitudes and values to the field of health and medicine” (Rex A. Skidmore and M.G. Thackeray) “Introduction to Social Work” (P-72). 

Objectives of medical Social Work:

1. Helping people enlarge problem solving and coping abilities. 
2. Facilitating interaction between individuals and others in their environment. 
3. Helping people obtain resources. 
4. Making organizations responsive to people influencing interactions between organizations and institutions. 
5. Influencing social environment policy (Minahan 1981).