Social work profession enables to deepen the understanding of social problems, issues, policies and programmes connected with planned social development. The chapters on various topics incorporated in this book aims to develop competence for ensuring effective delivery of services to the needy and handicapped population. The author has emphasized the social behaviour and life sciences of human development, and tried to establish the fact that there is a basic core of knowledge and skills that are common to social work practice in different fields.
In this book the author has tried to point out an assortment of the psycho-social and health aspects of social work profession and has stressed out the scope of social work in providing various services for the people particularly like education, physical and mental health, services for disabled, social defence, and public health, etc., which are carried out through different social service organizations and institutions, in Indian context. |
