social case work overview power point pp

social case work definition

1. social case work SOCIAL CASE WORK OVER VIEW .

2. Social work is an evolving discipline where interventions are geared up towards initiating, exploring, retaining and modifying the ways and means by which persons, individually and/or collectively are helped in resolving disruptions in their social functioningLike other disciplines touching social life of human beings, social work too needs to design and re-design conceptual frameworks, theories and models related to interventions. As social situations change, the outlook to analyze and measure various social situations should also change. Theories and concepts guiding us through our social

3. UNDERSTANDING VARIOUS SYSTEMS 1) Natural or informal system (family, relatives, friends, neighbours , etc.), 2) Formal system (membership organizations, - labour unions, support groups, PTA), and 3) Societal resource system (hospital, legal services, schools, work place.

4. PROCESS OF CHANGE EFFORT a) Assessing Problem In first phase, the social worker (change agent) identifies the problem area (say, news reports of weavers committing suicide in Banaras of Uttar Pradesh) and collects more information about the nature of problem, social situation, life-style of people, b) Collecting Data It is the second phase, where the social worker collects data about the problem at hand in an objective, scientific manner. She (let us assume social worker is female) may use research tools like questioning (direct verbal, direct written, projective verbal, projective written), observations (participative, non participative) and analyzes in order to find the root cause(s) of the problem. .