LECTURE 5.pdf
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The document provides definitions of social work from various scholars and organizations from 1940 to 1970. It summarizes social work as a professional activity that uses scientific knowledge and skills in human relations to help individuals, groups, and communities enhance their social functioning and ability to obtain resources. Social workers assist clients in addressing problems related to economic well-being, relationships, and adjusting to their social environment so they can better meet their needs and live fulfilling lives.
LECTURE 5.pdf
- 1. BY AMIT KUMAR MOB NO.: +919435028022 EMAIL-amitranjanfn09@outlook.com PhD Research Scholar DTS, CUJ RANCHI SOCIAL WORK BY AMIT KUMAR PHD RESEARCH SCHOLAR CENTRAL UNIVIERSITY OF JHARKHAND DEFINITONS CONTINUE…. Gartland (1940) Social Work is a process through which we use the understanding of individual in society in the rendering of certain social service supported by the community and applied for by member of it. United Nations Commission (1959) “Social work is a helping activity directed to problems, which affect economic and social well- being and a liason activity concerned with maximizing resources, for well-being and facilitation their use.” William Gordon (1969) The Central target of technical Social Work practice is matching something in person and situation that is intervening by whatever methods and means necessary to help people, be in situations where their capabilities are insufficiently matched with the demands of the situation to Make a go of it. National Association of Social Works (1970) USA Social Work is the professional activity of helping the individuals, groups or communities to enhance or restore their capacity for social functioning and to create societal conditions favorable to their goals. Social Work practice consists of the professional application of Social Work values, principles, and techniques to one or more of the following ends: helping people obtain tangible (concrete) services; counselling and psychotherapy with individuals, families, and groups; helping communities or groups provide or improve processes. The practice of Social Work requires knowledge of human development and behavior; of social, economic, and cultural institutions; and of the interactions of all these factors. Friedlander (1951) “Social work is that process which deals directly and differentially with persons who have problems relating primarily to their social solution and witch endeavours, individual to individual to understand what help is needed and to assist the individual to find and utilize the help indicate.”
- 2. BY AMIT KUMAR MOB NO.: +919435028022 EMAIL-amitranjanfn09@outlook.com PhD Research Scholar DTS, CUJ RANCHI Friedlander (1955) Social Work is a form of professional service, based upon scientific knowledge and skill in human relations, which assists individuals, alone or in groups to obtain social and personal satisfaction and independence. It is usually performed by a social agency of a related organisation. Boehm (1959) "Social work seeks to enhance the social functioning of individuals, singly and in groups, by activities focused upon their social relationship which constitute the interaction between man and his environment. These activities can be grouped into three functions, restoration of impaired capacity, provision of individual and social resources and prevention of social dysfunction.” A. Youngdahl (1949) “Social work seeks two things for people: economic well-being and the deeper source of happiness, that is self-realization, the stuff of concern is human behavior and relationship. Its focus of attention is the individual and his self-adjustment to a recognized reality.” G. Konopka (1958) “Social work is an entity representing three clearly distinguished but interrelated parts: a network of social services, carefully developed methods and process and social policy expressed thought social institutions and individuals. All three are based on a view of human being, their interrelationships, and the ethical demands made on them.” H. H. Stroup (1960) “Social work is the art of bringing various resources bear on individual, group and community need by the application of a scientific method of helping people to help themselves.” A. Pincus & Minahan (1978) “Social work is concerned with the interaction between people and their social environment which affects the ability of people to accomplish their life tasks, alleviate distress, and realize their aspiration and values.” Kher (1947) “The aim of social work, as generally understood, is to remove social injustice, to relieve distress, to prevent suffering and to assist the weaker member of society to rehabilitate themselves and their families and in short fight the five giant evils of (1) Physical wants, (2) Disease, (3) Ignorance, (4) Squalor(dirt), (5) Idleness(laziness).” Sushil Chandra (1954) “Social work is a dynamic activity undertaken by public or private effort in the implementation of social policy, with a view to raise the standard of living and to bring about social, economic, political and cultural well-being of the individual, family and the group with society irrespective of its stage of social development.” Indian Conference of Social Work (1957)
- 3. BY AMIT KUMAR MOB NO.: +919435028022 EMAIL-amitranjanfn09@outlook.com PhD Research Scholar DTS, CUJ RANCHI “Social work is a welfare activity based on humanitarian philosophy, scientific knowledge and technical skill for helping individuals or community, to live a rich and full life.” S. K. Khinduka (1962) Social work, “help an individual in his social functioning. It is based on certain knowledge foundation, call for skill in human relationship on the part of its practitioner, and has a set of values furnishing its philosophical base.” Mirza R. Ahmed (1969) Social work is professional service based on knowledge of human relations and skill relationship and concerned with problem of intra-personal and or inter-personal adjustments resulting from unmet individual, group, or community need.” Moorthy and Rao (1970) Social work is “help rendered to any person or group, who is suffering from any disability, mental, physical, emotional or moral, so that the individual or group so helped is enabled is enabled to help himself or itself.”