• B.E in Mechanical Engineering (2017)
• 1 year Experience in Teaching in Social Sector
• 2 year Exp in CHILDLINE INDIA FOUNDATION Project of Ministry of Women and Child Dev
• Master of Social Work (MSW) Duel Degree
➢Medical and Psychiatric
➢Community Development (CD)
-Piyush Asho
Email: socialworkerguider@gm
INTRODUCTION TO SOCIAL WORK PROFESSION
, INTRODUCTION TO SOCIAL
WORK PROFESSION
Module – 4 Methods and Fields of Social Work Practice
Primary and secondary methods of social work: social work in commun
– hospitals – industries - correctional institutions - family and child wel
medical and psychiatric social work - community development - school
social work and youth welfare and human rights
INTRODUCTION TO SOCIAL WORK PROFESSION
, Primary and Secondary methods of
Social Work
What is social work?
In a simple way, the term Social work can be defined as “a profession which h
individuals to help themselves”.
In a country like India there are certain misconceptions are associated with
profession. Common man failed to separate professional social work from
voluntary social work due to these misconceptions. The real seeds of these pe
views can be described as follows;
1) Social workers failed to separate western professional components as
traditional religious components from the social work which is practiced in Ind
2) Terminology has not developed as social workers are pre occupied with
problem of day to day nature.
3) Precision and accuracy is lacking as most of the findings are drawn from
sciences.
INTRODUCTION TO SOCIAL WORK PROFESSION
, 3) Precision and accuracy is lacking as most of the findings are drawn
from social sciences.
4) Social work deals with problems about which even a layman has
some fixed ideas.
5) Adding to this confusion politicians, film stars and cricketers describe
some of their promotional campaigns as social work, trained social
workers since are paid and voluntary, and untrained are not paid, but
both working side by side, layman often cannot understand the
difference between the kind of activities that come under the label of
social work carried on by a wide range of persons with differing
backgrounds.
• 1 year Experience in Teaching in Social Sector
• 2 year Exp in CHILDLINE INDIA FOUNDATION Project of Ministry of Women and Child Dev
• Master of Social Work (MSW) Duel Degree
➢Medical and Psychiatric
➢Community Development (CD)
-Piyush Asho
Email: socialworkerguider@gm
INTRODUCTION TO SOCIAL WORK PROFESSION
, INTRODUCTION TO SOCIAL
WORK PROFESSION
Module – 4 Methods and Fields of Social Work Practice
Primary and secondary methods of social work: social work in commun
– hospitals – industries - correctional institutions - family and child wel
medical and psychiatric social work - community development - school
social work and youth welfare and human rights
INTRODUCTION TO SOCIAL WORK PROFESSION
, Primary and Secondary methods of
Social Work
What is social work?
In a simple way, the term Social work can be defined as “a profession which h
individuals to help themselves”.
In a country like India there are certain misconceptions are associated with
profession. Common man failed to separate professional social work from
voluntary social work due to these misconceptions. The real seeds of these pe
views can be described as follows;
1) Social workers failed to separate western professional components as
traditional religious components from the social work which is practiced in Ind
2) Terminology has not developed as social workers are pre occupied with
problem of day to day nature.
3) Precision and accuracy is lacking as most of the findings are drawn from
sciences.
INTRODUCTION TO SOCIAL WORK PROFESSION
, 3) Precision and accuracy is lacking as most of the findings are drawn
from social sciences.
4) Social work deals with problems about which even a layman has
some fixed ideas.
5) Adding to this confusion politicians, film stars and cricketers describe
some of their promotional campaigns as social work, trained social
workers since are paid and voluntary, and untrained are not paid, but
both working side by side, layman often cannot understand the
difference between the kind of activities that come under the label of
social work carried on by a wide range of persons with differing
backgrounds.
