Importance Of Loyalty In Social Work

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This unit, as the third in the Block 3 — Relationship, would acquaint you about the concept, Characteristics and Value of relationship in social work. It also attempts’ to describes the Value relationship in social work. More specifically, the unit would cover: a) Definition ,Concept and nature of service b) Various categories of loyalty. c) Principles of Loyalty to Profession d) How to nurture loyalty in Social Work Profession. After reading the unit, you would develop a comprehensive idea about the loyalty as one of the values of social work profession. It also helps you to understand the importance of nurturing the value of loyalty in your profession. 1.1 INTRODUCTION Social work by nature is a helping profession. One may become well …show more content…

Social work always recognised the importance of human interaction and attempted to use relationship in a conscious and deliberate manner to benefit the people it worked …show more content…

Human beings as social animals thrive and prosper on social interactions with fellow beings. Growth and development of an individual’s personality depends largely on his/her relationships with significant others. Human relationships are indeed known for their warmth, comfort, security, nurture and emotions. Relationship has many dimensions and facets and it keeps on changing with the pace of ongoing evolution of human society. Certainly, it is relationship which fabricates society on this earth and it has been shifting from most common to complex since the immemorial time. The term 'relationship' can refer to the idiosyncratic modes of interacting of specific individuals, or to generalised patterns of behaviour, as in 'the mother- infant relationship'. In either case the characteristics of the relationship include those of the interactions involved, that is the content of the interactions and their qualities. It is because particular types of interaction tend to be associated together; that relationships can be named according to the types of interaction they characteristically contain (Simpson,

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