Suresh Singh – författare

As a social worker, you must be committed to working with people and helping them to solve their problems. You must have a sympathetic and cring nature, as well as the ability to empathise with clients and to win the trust of people from all kinds of backgrounds. Good communication skills are very important. You should be able to listen carefully, and ask the rihgt questions to find out more about the client's needs. Report writhing is an essential skill; your are also quite likely to need some basic IT skills to produce your reports. Surveying the breadth of current knowledge in the field, this volume is an essential resource for social work pracititoners, supervisors, educators, researchhers and student. it serves as a uniquely informative text for undergraduate and graduate-level courses in direct practice, group work advanced practice, social work administration and community organization.

The book offers a comprehensive introduction to the field with a unique focus on the diverse groups to whom social workers provide services. It helps the advanced students and professionals concerned with the sociology of work management and organization studies to meet the academic benchmarks.

Human rights and social justice are the philosophical underpinnings of social work practice. The uniqueness of social work practice is in the blend of some particular values, knowledge and skills, including the use of relationship as the basis of all interventions and respect for the client’s choice and involvement. In a socio-political-economic context which increasingly generates insecurity and social tensions, social workers play an important and essential role. Social workers work in a variety of settings: family services agencies, children’s aid agencies, general and psychiatric hospitals, school boards, correctional institutions, welfare administration agencies, federal and provincial departments. The present publication is an ideal textbook on the subject, covering syllabi of several universities. It provides a concise guide to almost all the topics relevant to the subject of social work. The insightful text of the book offers a grand view of a very diverse profession and the many areas of practice that social workers serve in.

Social work, as a profession, originated in the 19th century. The movement began primarily in the United States and England. After the end of feudalism, the poor were seen as a more direct threat to the social order, and so the state formed an organized system to care for them. In England, the Poor Law served this purpose. This system of laws sorted the poor into different categories, such as the able bodied poor, the impotent poor, and the idle poor. This system developed different responses to these different groups. The present publication is an ideal textbook on the subject, covering syllabi of several universities. It provides a concise guide to almost all the topics relevant to the subject of social work.