Modern Trends in Social Work

The potential and capacity of social work to incorporate within its range a huge variety of settings and work upon the improvement of these settings, including alcohol and drug abuse, child welfare, civil rights, disabilities and physical handicaps, mental health and retardation, etc., remains untapped and unexplored. Social work bases its methodology on a systematic body of evidence-based knowledge derived from research and practice evaluation, including local and indigenous knowledge specific to its context. It recognises the complexity of interactions between human beings and their environment, and the capacity of people both to be affected by and to alter the multiple influences upon them including bio-psychosocial factors. The social work profession draws on theories of human development and behaviour and social systems to analyse complex situations and to facilitate individual, organisational, social and cultural changes. As the book addresses this crucial issue quite deftly, it is hoped that it would prove to be a source of great information for the reader.