Integrated Social Work Practice-I (Social Case Work and Social Group Work)

Paper Code: 
MSW 222
Credits: 
4
Contact Hours: 
60.00
Max. Marks: 
100.00
Objective: 
  • To help students appreciate the role of both individualized and group approach in dealing with human problems in general.
  • To help students deepen one’s understanding of person, family and community in relation to the problem with an interdisciplinary perspective and attitude with is non judgmental.
  • To develop an understanding of the scope and nature of group work.
  • To provide insight into the various dimensions of group processes.
  • To provide skills and competence in applying group work as a method of professional intervention in various settings.
  • To help students develop attitude and inculcate values which foster human dignity and promote growth.
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Definition and Objectives of Social Casework. Concepts of Social Casework-ego, stress, social role and adaptation.

Components, principles and techniques of social casework.

Definition and characteristics of group work.

Purpose of group.

Principles of Group work.

Advantages and Values of Group Work.

12.00

Phases of social case work – beginning, ongoing and ending phases and their characteristics.

Techniques of social casework in different phases : interviewing, support, education, referral, joint interviewing.

Individual and family centred social work.

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Social casework practice in different settings; education, nutrition, health, marriage, family welfare, child guidance, neighbourhood etc.

Crisis intervention : preventive and remedial Social casework.

Social case work with the poor and the disadvantaged.

12.00

Group Processes and Group Dynamics: Group formation; Contract; Subgroups; Problem situations in group.

Group Development: Stages of Group Development and Implications for Practices

 

12.00

Skill and Techniques of Group work: Programme Planning and Programme Media Recording, Evaluation and Monitoring

 

Social Group Work and Social Work Profession : Group Work in Different Settings and other methods of Social Work.

References: 
  • Davies, Martin, ed. The Blackwell Companion to Social Work, Oxford, Blackwell, 1977.
  • Towle, Charlotte, Common Human Needs, London, George Allen & Unwin, 1973.
  • Davies, Richard, Stress in Social Work. London, Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 1998.
  • Bailey, Roy & Lee, Theory and Practice in Social Work, Oxford, Basil Blackwell, 1982.
  • Mathew, Grace. An Introduction to Social Casework, Bombay Tata Institute of Social Sciences, 1992.
  • Food, Janis, Radical Casework: A Theory of Practice, Australia, Allen & Unwin, 1993.
  • Kadushin, Alfred, The Social Work Interview. New York, Columbia University Press, 1983.
  • Danial Goleman, Emotional Intelligence, Bantam Books, 1995.
  • Helen Harris Perlman, Social Casework : A Problem – Solving Process. Chicago University Press, 1957.
  • Roberts, R.W. & Nee, R.H. (ed) Theories of Social Casework, Chicago University Press, 1970.
  • Capuzi, David & Cross, Douglas R. Introduction to the Counselling Profession. Boston, Allyn and Bacon, 1997.
  • Fischer, Joel. The effectiveness of Social Casework: Springfield, Charles C. Thomas, 1978.
  • AIISI, A.S.: Perspective on Group Work Practice: New York, MacMillon, 1980.
  • Balgopal & Vassil, Group in Social Work; New York, MacMillan, 1983.
  • Benson, J.F. Working More Effectively with Groups, London, Tavistock, 1987.
  • Brown, Allan, Group Work, Aldersnot, Gover, 1986.
  • Douglas, Tom, Group Processes in Social Work, Chicester, Willey, 1972.
  • Douglas, Tom. Basic Group Work, London, Tavistock, 1978.
  • Garland & Kolodny, Characteristics and Resolution of Scapegoating in Whittaker & Treischman, 1972.
  • Garvin, Charles, D. Contemporary Group Work, in AIISI, 1980.
  • Heap, Ken, The Practice of Social Work with Groups, London, Unwin, 1985.
  • Kanopka, Social Group Work: A Helping Process, E’Cliffs, Prentice, 1963.
  • Kuenstler (ed), Social Group Work, London, Faber, 1954.
  • Lifton, W.M. Working with Groups : New York, Wiley, 1961.
  • KIfton, W.M. Groups Facilitating individual Growth and Societal Change, New York, Wiley, 1972.
  • McGaugnan, (ed), Group Work, Learning and Practice, London, Unwin, 1978.
  • Milson, Fred, An Introduction to Group Work Skills, London, RKP, 1973.
  • Northern, Helen, Social Work with Groups, New York, CUP, 1967.

Pappell and Rolhman, Social Group Work Models in AIISI

Academic Session: 
2017-18
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