Social Work Notes / Basic Assumptions / UGC-NET / PSC Helper / Study Materials

 Social Work Notes / Basic Assumptions / UGC-NET / PSC Helper / Study Materials

 Social Work Notes / Basic Assumptions / UGC-NET / PSC Helper / Study Materials

Basic Assumptions of Social work

·        Social work is a profession, a very new one to be sure but, nevertheless, a profession. It necessitates intellectual activities accompanied by great individual responsibilities. It is not just academic but is also practical in its aims.

·        Basic to the functioning of the professional social worker is understanding of human personality and of the world he lives in.

·        Social welfare and social work are not the same thing, although on many points they are, the former includes social institutions and the field of practice which are not social work. The latter comprises a body of practices which can be employed at many places in the large social welfare field.

·        Social work has its own processes and techniques, but it involves much more than skills. It has a point of view, a philosophy. It assumes that although personal and social conflict are inevitable and natural, social change can be helpfully directed.

·        The social worker by nature his activities must use many types of services. This means that he must have extensive information about the resources of his community.

·        The social worker is concerned with the needs of individuals and with the environment that cause personal problems. The person and his environment, or better, the interaction of person and situation is the focus of the social worker.

  

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