WEEK 3 POST

Explain the various goals of both clinical social work and case management. In what ways do they differ and how might they overlap? Considering a future career in the field of social work, which sounds more appealing to you? Why?

Refence in your post to both

Breanna Williams

Clinical social work includes observing client behavior, assessing the needs of the client, and creating effective treatment strategies. The goal of a clinical social worker is to enhance and maintain the psychosocial functioning of individuals, families, and small groups (Farley, Smith, & Boyle, 2011). Clinical social workers have a goal of maintaining or improving the quality of services that are provided to clients, as with any social worker. According to the National Association of Social Workers (Anastas, J.W., 2005), clinical social workers have six main goals which include service, social justice, dignity and worth of the person, importance of human relationships, integrity, and competence. Case management is a process that assesses, plans, implements, monitors, and evaluates the services that are provided to determine if they meet human needs. Some of the goals of case management include improving the quality of social work services, provide a framework for continuous education related to social work, advocating for the client’s rights, and encourage social workers to continue developing (Anastas, J.W., 2013). Clinical social work is more in the field than case management, but they can overlap in some respects. Both seek to enrich individuals' or groups' lives by following policies and upholding the value of the individuals. Both evaluate the services that are being provided and assess if something could be done differently.

As for which sounds most appealing to me, I would have to say clinical social work. Being in the field more than behind a desk is what I seek most out of my career. Though both help people advance in life, being on the ground actually interacting and seeing the change would be more fulfilling to me. Case management is in the field at some points, but much of their job includes office work.

Brittany Meyer-Lee

Hello,

The goal of a clinical social worker is evaluating clients to determine their needs. Connecting clients with services, such as financial assistance, counseling or health care. Providing counseling or therapy to individuals and families. Assisting clients in developing plans for addressing their long-and-short term needs and goals. the goal of case management is to facilitate coordination, communication, and collaboration with consumers, providers, ancillary services, and others in order to achieve goals and maximize positive consumer needs (Farley, Smith, & Boyle, 2011). Case management is a collaborative process that assesses, plans, implements, coordinates, monitors, and evaluates the options and services required to meet the client's health and human service needs. Clinical social work is a specialty practice area of social work which focuses on the assessment, diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of mental illness, emotional, and other behavioral disturbances. Individual, group and family therapy are common treatment modalities (NSAW, n/a). It seems that they are different but the same in so many different ways and pretty much piggyback off of each other along with being a team working to help the client’s. Case manager manages the case of the client providing resources and the clinical social worker can diagnosis and provide therapy. They both can do assessments and create treatment plans. Clinal social work can do initial assessment and case manager can do the reassessments.

I actually do case management now currently as part of my job and honestly neither one sounds appealing to me but if I had to chose I think being a case management would be more appealing to me only because I already know what expect and I am not ready to be the one that diagnosis people and providing therapy even though I kind of do that as apart of skill building when working with the clients. I basically am a social worker without the pay due to not having a degree.