The document discusses social casework and its role in society. Social casework aims to counsel individuals to improve social relationships and adjustment. It helps individuals and couples build satisfying relationships through changing behavior and personality. The social caseworker's approach must be dynamic and address clients' psychosocial needs. The overall goal of social casework is to help maintain individual and societal harmony and well-being.

1. welcome
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2. A
Presentation
on “social
casework.”
Presented by
Jins Joseph
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3. INTRODUCTION
 Social work is a professional discipline, which
helps to improve the well being and the quality
of life of the individuals and the community.
 This profession can be simplified as helping
people to help themselves. It promotes with an
enduring solution to livelihood than a temporary
solution to the timely problems.
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4. METHODS OF SOCIAL WORK
The social work activities are mainly classified into
six categories.
They are namely
•Social casework
•Social group work
•Community organization
•Social action
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5. The primary step of social work as a
profession was to assist people to overcome
their psychosocial problems.
Since individual, group and community
played vital role in social living it evolved
three different methods for each of this level.
 Social case work mainly deals with
individuals, social group work with groups
and community organization withjins joseph dbasc
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6. SOCIAL CASEWORK AND ITS ROLE
IN SOCIETY
Social casework is generally considered
to be a method which helps to counsel the
individual client to improve his social
relationships and social adjustment.
The early methods of case work were like
storytelling, imparting knowledge, prayer,
yogic exercises, fasting and modeling of the
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7. SCW helps individuals and couples to have
satisfying relations.
 Through the medium of relationships the
change is brought in the individual's behavior
and personality.
The approach of the social case worker
must be dynamic filled with attitudes and
emotions to meet the psychosocial needs of
the individual.
The intention behind the social case work isjins joseph dbasc
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8. VALUES OF SOCIAL CASEWORK
 Every individual has inherent worth and dignity.
 Every individual has the right to self-
determination.
 Every individual is the primary concern of the
society and has the potential for and the right to
growth.
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9. Values…
 Every individual, in turn, has to contribute
to the society’s development by assuming
his social responsibility.
 The individual and society in which one
lives are interdependent.
 Basic human needs have to be met by
services which are not dependent upon in
accord either to moral behavior or to race,
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10. COMMON ASSUMPTIONS OF
SOCIAL CASEWORK
 Man is a bio psycho social being who is in continuous
contact with his environment.
 All problems in social functioning are psycho social in
nature and most of these are interpersonal.
 Man can be understood and helped up to an extent.
 There is no limit to growth and development for man
except those gained genetically.
 Every person is unique as well as have similarity injins joseph dbasc
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11. COMMON PRINCIPLES OF SOCIAL
CASEWORK
 Principle of acceptance- observing the common
courtesies, respecting the ideas and treating the
person equal to oneself.
 Principle of confidentiality- refraining from
encroaching into the clients’ privacy and
maintaining the confidence assured to him.
 Principle of relationship- relationship is the
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 Principle of self awareness- imparting only
the professional values and helping the
client to relieve from his dilemma.
 Individualization
 Controlled emotional involvement
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13. THE STAGES OF SOCIAL CASEWORK
PROCESS
 Intake and Rapport building
 Clinical exploration of the problem
 Assessment
 Intervention/ Treatment
 Monitoring and Evaluation
 Follow-up and Termination
 Case management
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14. CONCLUSION
 SCW can be referred as a service aiming at
maintaining the harmony and wellbeing of the
individuals.
 Individual is the nucleus of the society thus
the whole societal outcome is depending upon
the individuals sound behavior and attitude.
 From Vedic times onwards man helped eachjins joseph dbasc
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15. This helping process mainly aims at restoration,
provision of resources and finally prevention of the
issues faced.
The knowledge about social case work and its
functions will help the professional to discharge his
duties in a proper way.
To create a sound society socialization has a vital role
to play. As we live in the electronic age which promotes
the growth of psychosocial problems, often we find that
it is not possible for an individual to overcome this by
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16.  A professional can help the seeker to come out of
the emotional, psychological hazards of the
individual.
 It helps to know the individuals potentiality to an
extent thus to live a better life.
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17. REFERENCE
1. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caseworker_
(social_work)
2. 2) Upadhyay, R.K (2010).Social casework, a
Therapeutic Approach.Rawat publication,
Jaipur.
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