Syllabus

Course Code: MSW(C)- 104    Course Name: Social Case Work-I

MODULE NO / UNIT COURSE SYLLABUS CONTENTS OF MODULE NOTES
1 - Social Case Work: nature, assumptions, values and principles.
- Development of social case work U.K., USA and India
- Concepts in social case work: Human needs, stress, social role and adaptation.
- Components of social case work: person, place, problem & process
2 - Intake: need and importance, Relationship: nature and ways to establish.
- Ego- functions and defense mechanisms.
- Work with individuals in the context of the family and other sub-systems.
- Referral: its use in social case work.
- Recording: types-Narrative, Process and Problem Oriented Record Keeping (PORK) and format.
3 - Process of social case work- study, assessment, goal formation, planning, treatment, evaluation, termination and follow-up
- Techniques of social case work: interviewing, support, encouragement, clarification, correcting perception, reality orientation; resource mobilization, home visiting, interpretation, topical shift, logical reasoning.
- Transference and Counter-Transference and their use in case work practice
4 - Models of social case Work practice: Problem solving, Psycho- social, Task oriented.
- Rational Emotive Therapy and its use in social case work.
- Discussion on role of case worker from the records in school, family and marriage settings.
- Presentations and discussions on cases and practical questions.
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