The document outlines the social casework process, beginning with intake. Intake involves initially meeting with and enrolling the client, and using probing questions to understand their problem, needs, and situation. Key areas to explore include the current problem stage, reasons for seeking help, adjustment across social roles, physical and mental health, personal resources, feelings, defense mechanisms, motivation, family relationships, and reactions to the worker. The goal of intake is to clarify issues to determine the best way to help the client effectively.

1. SOCIAL CASEWORK PROCESS
Intake
Exploration(study)
Assessment (Diagnosis)
Formulation of goals and treatment planning,
intervention(treatment)
Evaluation and Termination( Disengagement)

2. INTAKE
It is an administrative procedure.
Admit him or enroll him as a client of the agency
Starts with the first encounter and ends usually with the
second interview.(a skillful person is required)
Phase requires a skillful probing into clients problem,
mopping up all the relevant areas of the person-in-his –
situation.
What are the needs / problems of the client
How or where can his need be best met.

3. AREAS FOR PROBING ARE:
The stage of the problem at which the person is, through whom,
the reasons behind of which comes to this agency.
The nature of the request and its relation to his problem and the
cause of the problem as the client sees.
Does the request relate directly to his needs or problems.
Adjustment to his social functions in job, family etc..
The stage of his physical and mental health
His appearance including dress, cleanliness etc… in the first
meeting
Personal and social resources including material and financial
position
Appropriateness and intensity of feelings
Nature of defense mechanisms he frequently uses.
Level of motivation
Nature of family, values ,relationship pattern in the family

4. CONTN..
Reactions to the worker and seeking help from the agency
and the gender of the caseworker who is suitable to help the
person.
Intake interviews are different from the initial interviews in
case work process because it doesn’t aim at treating the
case.
It clarifies certain issues necessary to seek effective help.
Intake interviews-May not be in a formal way,
few employ intake case workers, others dealt by the
assigned case worker.