Social Work Practice : Knowing Oneself of Social Workers

Abstract

The object of this academic article is to study the knowing oneself of social workers. The knowing oneself is the importance of social work practice for attaining the purpose and successful. It is found that the knowing oneself is consisted of; 1) Knowing self through the Sappurisadharma meaning qualities of good man; Atthanyuta meaning to know self about one’s own family, position, property, follower, knowledge and virtue and at the same time living under them. 2) Knowing self through the Johari’s Window : the social workers should perform on the first window (Open Area) and try to destroy and reduce the action on the second window (Blind Area) in order to open the area for the first window, and 3) the social workers must know oneself following the component of good social worker consisted of 1) Knowledge, 2) Attitude, 3) Skill and 4) follow the Professional Ethics of social workers :1) Ethic of Responsibilities to oneself, 2) Ethic of Responsibilities to Profession, 3) Ethic of Responsibilities to Clients (person, group, community),4) Ethic Responsibilities to colleagues and other professions, 5) Ethic of Responsibilities to organization and 6) Ethic of Responsibilities to Community.