Social Work
Meaning:
work carried out by trained personnel with the aim of relieve the conditions of those people in a community suffering from social need or deprivation.
Definition:
Social work is a practice-based profession and an academic discipline that promotes social change and development, social connection, and the empowerment and relief of people. Principles of social justice, human rights, collective responsibility and respect for diversities are central to social work. social work engages people and structures to address life challenges and enhance well being.Function:
He classified the functions of social work into the following 4 major categories:
1.Curative Function :
The services provided under curative functions are–medical and health services, services relating to psychiatry, child guidance, child welfare services, services for the handicapped or disable in the form of protection and rehabilitation. These kinds of services aim to cure the physical, social, material, psychological sickness of individuals in the society.
2.Correctional Function :
The correctional function of social work has three broad areas, such as:
a) Individual reform service which includes prison reform, probation, parole and other related services.
b) Services for improving social relationship which includes family welfare services, school social work, industrial social work etc.
c) Services for social reform that includes employment services, prevention of commercial sex work, beggary prohibition services and removal of accountability etc.
3.Preventive Function:
It includes life insurance services, public assistance, social legislation, adult education and prevention of diseases etc. This type of function basically deals with the services relating to the prevention of problems like insecurity, unlawfulness, ignorance, sickness etc. It is directed towards the elimination of those factors in the social environment or those deficiencies in the development of personality that prevents the individual from achieving a minimum desirable standard of social-economic life.
4.Developmental Function :
Developmental function includes the tasks of social-economic development activities such as: education, recreational services, urban and rural development programs and programs of integration etc which are primarily concerned with the development of individuals, families, groups and communities.
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