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Social work is a professional discipline (within the framework of social welfare programs and services) designed to assist peopl ...

mediators, are increasingly called on to help people to contend with society's manifold social problems (Suppes and Wells, 1996; ...

7.2.3 Types of Methods of Social Work The methods of social work are meant to be the ways, the means and techniques through whic ...

Types of problems individuals face, Why people are in socially strainful situations, and The role of social forces and the envi ...

A group worker has to be able to make the client system solve their problem; Use of scientific methods like observation, analys ...

The most relevant method of social work is community organization in respect to the problem of developing countries. On the othe ...

7.3. The Limitations and Challenges of Social Welfare Programs Some of the limitations and challenges of social work and welfare ...

problems are left unaddressed, while attention is given to the superficial issues, the “symptoms” of the problems. More structur ...

7.4. Planned Social Change, Change Agents and Client Systems Despite the fact that human society seems to stick to its tradition ...

Change agents are persons who are trained to give guidance and assistance to the community, in need of desired planned social ch ...

The role of a catalyst: As catalysts, social workers stimulate the people. They act as enzymes, so to speak. When the people fac ...

Learn to break from ethnocentric ideas, assumptions, and views; Learn to work patiently with the target groups; and Know about ...

Change agents should be guided by the fundamental guiding principles of the methods of social action or social work. Whether the ...

Review Questions Explain the term social action? Define the concept of social work and discuss its fundamental guiding philosop ...

Discuss the appropriate professional behavior of health workers. Discuss the basic principles of casework as one of methods of ...

GLOSSARY Accommodation: is a social process whereby people try to accept one another, avoiding the sources of conflict to live i ...

Alienation: The phenomenon of being dehumanized and detached from the psychosocial support system due to system of domination, e ...

Avenues of Social Mobility: are the doors through which a person moves upward in the social hierarchy. Case Study: A method whic ...

Childhood socialization (see primary socialization) Classical conditioning: a type of conditioning in which the response remains ...

Control theory: A sociological theory of crime and deviance which states that every person is naturally prone to make deviance, ...