Professional social work education was initiated in India through influence of American professional social work, which resulted in a clinical orientation in social work in India. Social work education developed with the influence of government of India schemes, which resulted in welfare orientation in social work in addition to the clinical one. Need for a developmental orientation leading to systems change was identified as more appropriate for developing ...
Social Work Administration and Development emphasizes upon the call for developing strategies and approaches to suit the new socio-economic reality by linking and integrating social skills with technical skills. It also covers the issues that are undertaken with regard to an individual, group and community in the process of organization and direction of a social institution. The increased participation of primary stakeholders can create confident communities, who ...
Social work is a professional discipline today. Social work in its various forms addresses the complex transactions between people and their environments. Its mission is to enable people to enrich their lives and develop their full potential. Social work is an interrelated system of values, theories and practice. The broad concerns for social work profession are equity, social justice, harmony and peace mainly directing the activities to support the quest of the ...
Social work profession enables to deepen the understanding of social problems, issues, policies and programmes connected with planned social development. The chapters on various topics incorporated in this book aims to develop competence for ensuring effective delivery of services to the needy and handicapped population. The author has emphasized the social behaviour and life sciences of human development, and tried to establish the fact that there is a basic ...