Social Work

  COMPONENT OF SOCIAL CASE WORK INTRODUCTION Social case work is the primary method in social work practice. In social case work, a social worker works with an individual, helps an individual who faces problem in the day-to-day functioning. This method deals with both the social and psychological aspects of an individual’s life. The term “social” implies the experiences of the individual with other people and his/her environment, and the term “psychological” implies the thoughts and feelings which occupy the mind within an individual. Thus, the social aspects deal with the interpersonal experiences of the individual and the psychological aspects deal with the intrapersonal experiences of a human being. In order to understand the individual person, it is important to understand the various components of social case work and the importance of the components in dealing with the problems of the individual. Social case work is defined by Mary Richmond in 1915, as “the art of doing...

  COMPONENT OF SOCIAL CASE WORK INTRODUCTION Social case work is the primary method in social work practice. In social case work, a social worker works with an individual, helps an individual who faces problem in the day-to-day functioning. This method deals with both the social and psychological aspects of an individual’s life. The term “social” implies the experiences of the individual with other people and his/her environment, and the term “psychological” implies the thoughts and feelings which occupy the mind within an individual. Thus, the social aspects deal with the interpersonal experiences of the individual and the psychological aspects deal with the intrapersonal experiences of a human being. In order to understand the individual person, it is important to understand the various components of social case work and the importance of the components in dealing with the problems of the individual. Social case work is defined by Mary Richmond in 1915, as “the art of doing...

INTRODUCTION Social case work is the primary method in social work practice. In social case work, a social worker works with an individual, helps an individual who faces problem in the day-to-day functioning. This method deals with both the social and psychological aspects of an individual’s life. The term “social” implies the experiences of the individual with other people and his/her environment, and the term “psychological” implies the thoughts and feelings which occupy the mind within an individual. Thus, the social aspects deal with the interpersonal experiences of the individual and the psychological aspects deal with the intrapersonal experiences of a human being. In order to understand the individual person, it is important to understand the various components of social case work and the importance of the components in dealing with the problems of the individual. Social case work is defined by Mary Richmond in 1915, as “the art of doing different things for and with differe...

  COMPONENT OF SOCIAL CASE WORK INTRODUCTION Social case work is the primary method in social work practice. In social case work, a social worker works with an individual, helps an individual who faces problem in the day-to-day functioning. This method deals with both the social and psychological aspects of an individual’s life. The term “social” implies the experiences of the individual with other people and his/her environment, and the term “psychological” implies the thoughts and feelings which occupy the mind within an individual. Thus, the social aspects deal with the interpersonal experiences of the individual and the psychological aspects deal with the intrapersonal experiences of a human being. In order to understand the individual person, it is important to understand the various components of social case work and the importance of the components in dealing with the problems of the individual. Social case work is defined by Mary Richmond in 1915, as “the art of doing...

Generally social capital can be understand as a bounding a social relationship on the basis of culture, finance, norms, values…which have productive benefits. Like sociology, social capital has numerous definitions.  Social capital is about the value of social networks, bonding similar peoples and bridging between diverse people, with norms of reciprocity (Dekker and Uslaner 2011) ‘the process by which social actors create and mobilize their networks connection within and between organizations to gain access to other social actors’(Knoke 1999) ‘A culture of trust and tolerance, in which extensive networks of voluntary associations emerge’ (Inglehart 1997) Types of social capital on the basis of network perspective Bonding (exclusive)                                       Strong social bonds and trust...

Conflict Theory and Social Work Practice Subesh Raj Panta Numerous social theories are applied in social work practice at both micro, mezzo and macro level focussing mainly on human growth and development, psychological and social functioning, social and economic justice. Social work practitioners, in general conceptualize framework according to social theories developed from historical perspective to crack a problem for enhancing and creating a change. Social theories are just set of ideas developed consequently in philosophy, psychology, sociology discipline according to human responses towards different situations. Let us take conflict theory as a social work practice model.Since the early 1990s, bulk of civil conflicts have occurred. The nature of armed conflict has changed since the conclusion of the Cold War. Mark Duffield argues that new wars can also be called ‘network wars’ or ‘complex political emergencies’ by those in the humanitarian sector, as these conflicts tend to cut t...