2. Why Casework and
Counseling ?
Origin – advice
Volunteers were trained
Aim – to make the individual independent
Helps the individual to find the solution
Guides during confusion
Save lives
Enriched by new ideas, perspectives and theories
3. SOCIAL CASEWORK
“Social casework is a process
in which the client is
stimulated to participate in
the study of his situation to
share plans, to make active
efforts to solve his
problems, using his own
resources and whatever
community resources are
available and appropriate”
Hamilton (1956)
4. COUNSELING
“Counseling is an
interactive process
conjoining the
counselee who needs
assistance and the
counselor who is
trained and educated to
give this assistance”
Perez (1965)
5. SIMILARITIES CASEWORK AND COUNSELING
OBJECTIVES To help the individuals to find solution for
the problem by themselves
CLIENT Client with problem
PROBLEM Problems will be similar
EFFECTIVENESS DEPENDS
ON RELATIONSHIP
More intense the bond, more effective the
result
BELIEVES IN THE
DIGNITY OF INDIVIDUAL
No inferiority or superiority between
client and caseworker/counsellor
PRINCIPLES Principles of individuality, expression of
feelings, confidentiality, acceptance, etc…
6. DIFFERENCES CASEWORK COUNSELLING
NAME Caseworker Counsellor
AGENCY Agency is essential Can be done without an
agency
CONCRETE HELP Provided at the end Only the idea is provided
at the end
CONCERN Individual Problem
EMPHASIS Activity Realization of problem
NUMBER OF
CLIENTS
Only one Can be one individual or
a group counselling
PROCESS 8 step process 6 step process
ORIGIN 1898 – 1st professional
school of Social Work at
New York
1896 – Lightner Witmer
by finding the 1st
psychological clinic
9. REFERENCE
Counselling and Guidance – Second Edition by
S. Narayana Rao
Social Work and Social Development by
Sashi K. Gupta
Social Work : An Introduction to the Field – Second Edition
by Herbert Hewitt Stroup
