Social work is both a field and a method. This book presents an introductory, integrated overall view of both.             The term social work and social welfare are often confused and sometimes used synonymously. Actually, social welfare has a broader meaning and encompasses......

            Social work as a professional service to people for the purpose of assisting them, as individuals or in groups, to attain satisfying relationships and standards of life in accordance with their particular wishes and capacities and in harmony with those of the community. It is the art of bringing various resources to bear on individ......

            Teaching is now increasingly scientific in the sense that teachers need to know how children grow, learn, think, feel and respond to outside influences in their development. And it is professional in the sense that teachers are specialists whose prime concern is to enable each child to develop physically intellectually, emotionally......

            Social work may be defined as an art, a science, a profession that helps people to solve personal, group (especially family), and community problems and to attain satisfying personal, group, and community relationships through social work practice, including casework, group work, community organization, administration, and research......

            One of the hall marks of the modern society has been the vast proliferation of formal organizations explicitly designed to process and change people.             The social worker today possesses a professional authority. He or she is respected by other disciplines and, in the......

            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 within a society irrespective of its stage of social development......