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Includes wide variety of performance areas (all sectors of the population that need special attention) : Elderly, disabled, battered people (especially women, children and elderly) , prisoners , victims of terrorism , immigrants, excluding minor social , ethnic minorities, and addictions drug addiction , social emergency , prostitution, among other areas. A technological tool subjectual your workplace, is the social report , social history , the record , social diagnosis , the intervention project , tracking sheets , among others. Currently Social Work also develops its action in the third sector (associations , foundations , groups and NGOs) and to a lesser extent in private enterprise . Are added as technological tools - subjetuales , as part of its social intervention : expert reports , oral own justice system . Also in the school context , mediate disputes between members of the educational community , conduct treatment therapy families, groups, individuals , to seek resolution of their social interactions and problems that are causing suffering. Social work in prisons Social Work in prisons or inmates directed plays an important role in the fields of professional activity of a social worker . Prison institutions as social work , is a scope for behavior modification and temporary or permanent concealment of individuals who threaten social harmony under a free media , because for some causal have corrupted it. The purpose of the social worker with inmates is able to achieve social reintegration of the individual, ¨ so it becomes aware and identify the circumstances that led to their offending behavior and the consequences of deprivation of liberty ¨ ( Acevedo , 2003 , p.21 ) and this professional a vital component in all interdisciplinary treatment to which prisoners are exposed . At first glance the social worker should be aware that their work is aimed at a subject in a situation that remains similarly person has human dignity. Among the functions carried out by the social worker , led the prison environment is ( Source : Velez , Z. (1997 ) . A social worker for the new millennium . Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico : University of Puerto Rico . ) Intervention with individuals and families Risk weight - transition Protection Service Case management - maintenance Provision of services and resources Dispute Resolution : Conflict Management Maintenance of the organization Software Development It is necessary to direct attention to a professional bond axis - recipient of the intervention , called from the body of law that characterizes on stage as internal ¨ ¨ ( Acevedo , 2003 , p.21 ) . ¨ Professional intervention is a constitutive dimension of the disciplinary field , participating in field research. Both practices are articulated and feed back because it is knowledge that allows access to the understanding of the situations that the intervention seeks to transform , knowledge that will provide the arguments and professional foundations ¨ ( Cazzaniga , 2007 , p.83 ) . Which we inferred that the social worker should encourage their appropriate intervention work at personal contact attached to external investigations about the inmate. The methodology used by the social worker in cases of inmates is as follows : ( Source : Aguilar , I. , Chacon , L. , Gonzalez , M. , Gozalez , R. , Jimenez , S. , Lowe , M. , Mora , L. , Murillo , F. and Ortiz , J. ( 2006 ) . intervention social work and psychology at the Costa Rican justice . San Jose , Costa Rica : Editorama . ) The application receives professional study. Record the case in case-control book ( there is a book of minutes ) . Each professional prepares the file to realize the information obtained. Manufactures the subpoena . The social worker plans the home visit and / or institutional appointment sent through court -quoting and make telephone coordination . Performs Domiciliary visit to valued or institution where the inmate. Family -justify professional intervention and aim to fulfill. Performs interviews with people related to the individual ( family, neighbors , administrative authority , professional and other collateral sources ) . Evaluate the socio - family and community in which it operates the inmate . They stipulate the date and time of the interview to meet the research process . Within the frame of reference that the social worker must investigate and study to reach your goal : Family relationships Interpersonal relationships His previous coexistence in the community Which is why the person is incarcerated The social worker should be encouraged to be able to develop an environment to meet and exchange to facilitate the path to overcoming conflicts , based on dialogue main responsibility . ( Acevedo , 2003 , p.21 ) . Another approach which is directed to the services of a professional social work within a correctional institution it is institutional socialization or adaptive integration of the individual entry to prison. The reality is that the inmate will face a lack of internal consistency between the members of an institution, opposed interests , lack of coordination of human activities and compression criteria of the social fact that stands in the figure of the detainee. ( Acevedo , 2003 , p.21 ) . Similarly, social interaction and mental well-being go hand in hand in situations involving deprivation of freedom and integration into a penal institution . An article in the academic journal Social Forum plasma us a study by Research Triangle Institute, Health and Social Policy Division to male and female prisoners in order to define their mental study variants taking as marital status , possession of children and support social (internal and external). The result showed that prison institutions rather than promoting mental wellbeing , social relationships inside and outside the institution are associated with higher levels of distress within mental health. The highest levels of anxiety and depression the inmates who have encountered marital and inmates with higher levels of hostility were those who maintained social relations within the prison . This study is an indispensable test all prisoners need to have help from a social worker that provides tools for living and integration into the institution along with other inmates. This professional, in prisons , also works in cases of inmates hospitalized , oriented to the divorce , birth registration of children , and in case of death or serious illness of an immediate family member of the inmate must arrange for such circumstances. Similarly holds interests in checking link in the case of the Criminal Penal tour and intimate tour . ( Uzcudun ) Sometimes the roles of social workers in prisons face a number of problems that preclude complete their professional development . Some of these are ( Source : Uzcudun , B. (date not mentioned ) . Interpellation on the role of Social Worker prison . Newspaper of Social Work and Social Sciences Edition electrónica.4 Institutional project limiting rigid and limited capacity for action . Little room for autonomy to promote new projects . Pyramidal organization which restricts the emergence of formal and informal spaces to express interests and opinions . Shortage of work incentives. Lack of training to update and guidance in addressing the problem of confinement. Lack of interdisciplinary work . Grouping Shapes in instances where the decision is required across sectors. Strictly formal communication between the different sectors. Inadequate working conditions, materials, techniques , infrastructure and human resources . Hegemony forces internal and external security over professional intervention . The roles that are attributed to the social worker is related to practice and immediatist resolution in situations of need . Playing the social image of the profession that determines the type of demands associated with administrative problems. Prevalence of bureaucratic tasks professionals must resign their specific functions and technical professionals. Responses focused on spontaneous demands and solve emerging problems . Interference of political-economic context . The social worker is a vital factor within the components of the correctional institution and with the collaboration of society should promote the full development of the same for the benefit and improvement of the inmates who receive their services. Social Work in the protection and adoption processes You need to recognize the role played by the social work professional in the area of ​​comprehensive protection mechanisms , since the adoption for children , girls and adolescents in situations of non-compliance , threat or violation of their rights . As the quintessential protective measure aimed at providing a home to a child who does not have it in the same terms as a biological child , providing the child a permanent home that provides comprehensive development within a proper family and avoid irreversible effects institutionalization entails . It is important to the work of the social worker in the process by providing family partner contribution to the process , the interdisciplinary team intervention target population , since all Social Worker must as informal educator , emphasizing the guidance, training and comprehensive training . The fundamental purpose of social work in the interdisciplinary team is focused on the understanding and analysis of social reality to influence , guide and enhance the social, where individuals interact with their environment , groups, families , organizations and communities in the pursuit of development and social welfare . " The Role of Social Workers in front of children , girls and adolescents as for restoration of rights is directed to the field of family, which includes pregnant women , children protection and adoption processes . For these processes require the intervention of social workers since the purpose of these is to provide protection and welfare of children and adolescents who require not only basic care , rehabilitation , but finding a family that wants to provide protection, welfare , human development and a decent life for these children who are at high risk because they have been abandoned . The social worker becomes a facilitator in resolving difficulties, which helps overcome a disadvantage , discrimination and vulnerability , identifies the reality and expectations of the people , facing the multiple and expanding range of social Role of social worker • Make the diagnosis of the reason for your infant. • Participate in the selection of adoptive families . • presents relevant information in the process . • Collaborate with the processes developed by the family advocate The methodologies used are of intervention: • Preventive • Promotional • Orientation • Evaluative • Case Method • crisis intervention model . The Purpose of Adoption is the establishment of a real family , such as exists between bound by ties of blood, with all the rights and duties that entails , since by virtue of the adoption the adopter agrees to care for and assist adopted son , to educate , support , love and provide you with all the necessary conditions for it to grow in wellness environment , affection and solidarity. Techniques for individual and group work in the adoption process : • Home visits • Interview • Observation • Dynamic experiential and participatory