Social work aims to help individuals and communities achieve satisfying relationships and standards of living according to their wishes and abilities. It deals with solving social, economic, psychological, educational, political, and environmental problems at the individual, group, and community levels. The objectives of social work are to help people make use of their capacities and environmental resources to achieve personal satisfaction and adjustment, and to modify environments so people face fewer problems. Social work functions include curative, correctional, preventive, and developmental functions to assist individuals' adjustment to society and modify institutions appropriately.

1. WELCOME

2. Objectives & Functions
of
Social Work
BY
MD AAQUIB SAHRWARDI

3. Intoduction
“Helping people to help themselves”
Social work deals with the scientific solution and treatment of the social and
individual’s problem.Its main aim is to increase human happiness in
general.Therefore social work has been focused towards the attainment of two
goals,first: the creating of those conditions which help to make a more satisfying
way of life possible,Second:the development within the individual as well as
community,that which helps to live more adequately and creativity.

4. Definition
According to “Anderson” (1943)
“Social work is a professional service rendered to people for the purpose of assisting them,as individuals or in
group to attain satisfying relationships and standards of life in accordance with their particular wishes &
capacities & in harmony with those of the community.”
According to “Moorthy” & “Rao” (1970)
“Social work is help rendered to any person or group,who are which is suffering from any disability
mental,physical,emotional or moral,so that the individual or group so helped is enabled to help himself or itself.”
Social Work is profession which removes the
social, economical, psychological, educational, political, environmental etc problem on three stages…
1. Individual Problem (Micro)
2. Group Problem (Meso)
3. Community Problem(Macro)

5. Objectives
Objectives of social work in the words of Professor “Clark” are
1.To help people,make such use of their own capacities and of environmental
resources as well which result in personal satisfaction and adjustment.
2.To help in the modification of the environment so that people will have few
personal and social problems.
According to “Professor Freid Lander”
Social work seeks to assist individuals,group and community to reach the
highest possible degree of social,mental and physical well beings live.

6. Emerging objectives of Social Work
1.Material Security
Through economic & political organisation that will asure every individual &
every family the means of satisfying basic material needs.
2.Emotional Security
Through personal & social adjustment.
3.Social Achievement
Through collective effort.
4.Spiritual Power
Through philosophical or religious thoughts.

7. Generally Social work has following Objectives
I. To solve psycho-social problems.
II. To fulfill humanitarian needs.
III. To solve adjustmental problems.
IV. To create self sufficiency.
V. To making harmonious social relations.
VI. Develop democratic values.
VII.Provide opportunities for development and social programme.
VIII.Provide socio legal act.
IX. Change the environment in favour of individuals growth & development.
X. Bring Change in social system for social development.

8. Functions of Social Work
Social work operates to assists individuals in adjusting to the institutional
framework of society & attempts to modify the institutional framework of itself in
appropriate area.
There are four broad functions of social work
i. Curative function
ii. Correctional function
iii. Preventive function
iv. Developmental function