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 Social Work Notes / Social Functions of Social Welfare / UGC -Net / Kerala PSC Notes  Social Work Notes / Social Functions of Social Welfare / UGC -Net / Kerala PSC Notes They are Social Provisions, Social Services and social action. Social provisions are public assistance, social insurance, public housing, medical care etc… The ideal goal of social provisions is social security and social justice. Social services may be seen of four types: developmental, remedial, supportive and substitute. Education services are developmental, family counseling and child guidance services are remedial, day care and nutritional services are supportive and foster services are substitutive. Social action is concerned with the system change, while services are concerned with changing people. Social action seeks to alter the structure of roles and the distribution of power, prevent problems, expand opportunity and enhance the quality of life. In general system change is brought through violence ...

 Social Work Notes / Changing concepts of Social welfare / Kerala PSC Notes / UGC-Net  Social Work Notes / Changing concepts of Social welfare / Kerala PSC Notes / UGC-Net Here are discussed major concepts of social welfare which have been recognized in the process of social development. Romanyshyn has described the following concepts. From the Residual to the Institutional Concept Residual concepts of social welfare hold the view that social welfare activities should come into play only when the normal structures of society break down. Welfare programmes exists to meet the emergency needs of individuals when they are incapable of providing for themselves through the normal institutions of the family and the market. The poor, dependent children, the aged, is handicapped have been some of the recipient of welfare services. In such a situation society intervenes through public or voluntary means to assure some of minimum level of personal well-being and social functioning. Insti...

 Social work notes / Social Welfare and Social Work / UGC -Net / Kerala PSC Notes  Social work notes / Social Welfare and Social Work / UGC -Net / Kerala PSC Notes The term social welfare expresses a changing concept. It means not only to provide financial assistance and other services to the poor and the disadvantaged but it also refers to the collective responsibility to meet the needs of all the people in general. Elizabeth Wickenden defines social welfare as ‘including those laws, programmes, benefits and services which assure of strengthen provisions for meeting social needs recognized as basic to the well-being of the population and the better functioning of the social order. Social welfare is concerned with all those forms of social intervention that have a primary and direct concern with promoting both the well-being of the individual and of the society as a whole. Social welfare includes those provisions and processes directly concerned with the treatment and preventi...

 Social Work Notes / Misconceptions of Social Work / UGC-Net / Kerala PSC Notes  Social Work Notes / Misconceptions of Social Work / UGC-Net / Kerala PSC Notes Social Work as a profession is of recent origin and therefore, people are not aware about the real meaning of social work. They define in their own terms and knowledge. The following are the few areas which are generally known as the fields of social work. Social Work as an Alms-giving Activity It is a traditional concept. The desire to help the needy fellow men has been present from the very inception of human society. Such a desire has generated by the feeling of belongingness. It was a religious duty of a man to provide care and protection to the people suffering from various kinds of distresses. In India, alms-giving was considered as a path of moksha. Still today alms-giving to the poorer is considered a social welfare activity and therefore, it is called social work. But alms-giving is not social work because, the...

 Social Work Notes / Importance of Social work /  Kerala PSC Notes / UGC -Net  Social Work Notes / Importance of Social work /  Kerala PSC Notes / UGC -Net Earlier poverty was known as distress and the material help was given to the people who did not have food or money or sufficient clothing and shelter. But in the early twentieth century, the distress was redefined and was known as intrapersonal and interpersonal discomfort, with this swift from poverty to psychiatric discomfort (problem of living), the will to help was assessed inefficient and the helpers needed training to provide proper help. This occurred first in medicine and later on in social work. Modern man is experiencing an increasing loss of belief in God and a life after death, therefore, the distress of the current experience could not be minimized and seems to require relief. Further, the philosophy of existentialism tells us that the things that exist are only concretization of potentials that might...