Social Work Perspectives

Contents: Preface. 1. Social work education in India. 2. Need for change in the design and structure of social work curriculum. 3. Strengthening field-based training in social work education. 4. Field training to develop skills for scientific social work practice. 5. Development field work: a need based approach to field training. 6. Need of professionalizing social work. 7. Social work teachers and practitioners in health setting: need for coordination. 8. Community participation in public health programmes. 9. Intake policy of children\'s institutions. 10. Institutional and non-institutional services for children. 11. Need of professional social work practice in the rehabilitation of child workers. 12. Emerging social problems in India: a challenge to professional social work. 13. Solution of rural social problems: role of sociologists and social workers. 14. Voluntary vs professional social workers: an approach to social problems. 15. Changing role of NGOs in rural development. 16. Rural development: strategies and contributions. 17. National literacy mission: a reality analysis. 18. Missing focus on social gerontology: role of the schools of social work in India. 19. Employment opportunities for the trained social workers. Index.

"The book titled "Social Work Perspectives" is a collection of research articles and the papers presented at the national and international conferences held in India. The articles and papers selected for this book are broadly having three inter linked themes related to the theory and practice of the professional social work in India. Social work education, fieldwork training and the intervention of professional social work in the welfare and development areas are the main areas dealt in this book.

Since the social work profession has the interdisciplinary approach the present book helps those academicians and field practitioners who are concerned with the welfare and development of the society.

The papers on strengthening social work education, social work intervention in the field of aging, community participation in the health projects are of great useful. The present book will be a source book for the social work teachers, students, and the professional in the field.

Some of the articles are published in the professional journals and in the proceedings of the conferences and seminars of national and international repute." (jacket)