Social Case Work

Social Case Work, a primary method of social work, is concerned with the adjustment and development of individual towards more satisfying human relations. Better family life, improved schools, better housing, more hospitals and medical care facilities, protected economic conditions and better relations between religious groups help the individual in his adjustment and development.

Definitions of Social Case Work

Mary Richmond (1915)

“Social Case Work may be defined as the Art of doing different things with different people, co-operating with them to achieve some of  their own & society’s betterment.”

Mary Richmond (1917)

Social case work is the art of bringing about better adjustments in the social relationship of individual men or women or children.

 Mary Richmond (1922)

Social case work means, “those process which Develop personality through adjustment consciously affected, individual by individual, between men and their

Social environment”

Jarrett (1919)

Social case work is “the art of bringing an individual who is in a condition of social disorder into the best possible relation with all parts of his environment”.

Taft (1920)

Social case work means “social treatment of a maladjusted individual involving an

Attempt to understand his personality, behavior and social relationships and to assist him in working out better social and personal adjustment”.

Watson (1922)

Social Case Work is the art of untangling and restructuring the twisted personality in such a manner that the individual can adjust himself to his environment.

Safrad

“Social Case Work is a method employed by a social worker to help individual, find absolution of their problem of social adjustment which they are unable to handle in a satisfactory way by their own effort.”

QueenSocial case work is a art of "adjusting personnel relationship"

LEEsocial case work is an art of "changing human attitude"

Characteristics of Case Work

•   Relationship arise out of shared & emotionally charged situation
•  Relationship contains elements of acceptance, expectation, support & stimulation
• Client & case worker are interdependent
•  Case work relationship may have several therapeutic values
• Improvement of condition
•  More adjustment within the society
•  Development of personality
• Capacity building
• Relationship needs outside help
• Case worker too has relationship reactions and part of and part of 
• One’s professional skills in their management

Principles of Case work

Individualization
Purposeful expression of feelings
Control of Emotion
Self determination
Acceptance
Principle of non-judgmental attitude
Principle of Confidentiality

I.                  Individualization

Individualization means analyze an individual not from a single aspect but from various aspects. Every Individual is different from others & unique in itself. Problem of every individual is different from another & depend upon her/his intelligence, so the mode of helping (Technique) must be according to the Intellectual level, socio-economic situation and ego strength, ones capacity and resource.

II. Purposeful expression of feelings

Case worker must give the chance to the client to express her/his feelings freely, especially her/his negative feelings because maximum time feelings are negative in nature. The caseworker listen purposefully clients feelings neither praising nor condemning. Don’t point out any one as good or bad because of one‘s psycho social problems.

III. Control emotional involvement

 Without feeling any one’s emotion with sensitivity, it’s impossible to find-out her/his problem & get a solution of that problem. Emotion comes from 3 ways as- Sensitivity-Understanding-Response.

IV. Self determination

Self determination we means let the client to take her/his own decision in own way, give chance her/him to decide, what is right or wrong for them.

V. Acceptance

 A case worker must be accept an individual as a person of “worth & dignity”, not treat as a problem and always accept ones positive feelings and negative feelings.

VI. Non-Judgmental attitude

 A case worker mustn't have the right to judge any one as guilty or innocent.

VII. Principle of Confidentiality

Case work relationship has a principle to take the problems of the client in confidence and keep it as secret.

Element /Components Of Social Case work

Social Case Work is the process to help the individual. Help is to be given to him tomake him (i) Self Sufficient, (ii) Confidant, and (iii) Independent. The nucleus of social case work is given by HH Pearlman as this According to this statement; the helping process of social casework has got five different elements or components;

1. PERSON 

2. PROBLEM 

3. PLACE 

4. PROCESS/ PROCEDURE 

5. PROFASSIONAL REPRESENTATIVE 

http://www.academia.edu/2343907/Elements_of_Social_Casework_by_Imran_Ahmad_Sajid

 Element OF SCW