Semester II
Paper 7, Basic Processes & Techniques
Marks 100
Hours 60
Objectives :Enable students to:
Develop understanding of social work as a process of planned change in a problem situation.
Develop beginning ability to study the problem situation at the micro level and formulate goals of
change.
Acquire skills related to the problem solving processes and utilization of the formal and informal
resource systems of social work practice.
Develop sensitivity to the feeling of others and awareness of one’s own.
Appreciate and utilize recordings to enhance learning.
Unit. Topics Hours
1. Social Work profession 7
History & Philosophy of social work in India
Social Reform Movement, Voluntary social work and its implications for social work profession. Definition of professional Social Work Practice and its evolution.
2. Values and principles in Social Work Practice 8
3. Units of intervention: communities, groups, individuals and families in society. 8
Definition and characteristics.
4. Steps in problem solving process: 8
Initial, Middle and End in relation to the units of intervention.
Fact finding tools :Interview, Home visit, Survey, Community Mapping, Discussions, Observations.
5 Programme media in handling groups : 8
Recreational, Educational, Short term
groups, Organizational skills in planning issue based camps.
6. Problem / issue based intervention: 8
use of different methods of social work.
Role of Social worker. Code of ethics of social work profession
7 Problem solving techniques as used with Individuals Supportive, Referrals, provision & Mobilization of services. Fund Resource mobilization. Beginning skills in problem solution at Individual / family level.
8 Reports :
Recording , beginning skills in analysis of data 5
Bibliography
1. Louis Johnson, 1998, Social work Practice: A Generalist Approch., Allen AND Bacon Publishers
2. Rameshwari Devi and Ravi prakash, 2001, Social Work Practice. MAngal Deep Prakashan.
3. Krist Karen. K. Krist and Anshuman 2003, social Work and social Welfare, Critical thinking and
perspectives, Thomason Learnig Academic Resource Center.
4. Wilson and Rynland, 1949, Social Group Work Practice Creative use of Social Processes Hougton and
Millfin
5. Armando t. Moraes and Shefor Publishers, 1995, social work profession of many faces.
6. Jose Anthony Joseph & Gracy Fernandes 2006, An enquiry into ethical dilemmas in Social Work
Reseaerch Unit, College of Social work Nirmala Niketan,
Mumbai 4000 20
7. Suanna Wilson, 1976, Recording: guidelines for Social Workers, Colloier Macmillan
Publishers, London
