Social worker Introduction In this article the profile of Tigri slum community is presented. Information about the community was collected by personal observation, primary sources as well as secondary sources of information is also included which consists of survey reports, records at local government as well as census data. A comprehensive data is not available for slums … Read more
Introduction As the population of India is increasing at a large scale and at a very fast pace and the opportunity for employment is mainly concentrated in the urban areas , people from the rural areas are migrating on a large scale to urban areas; most of the times settling in squatter settlements or … Read more
In order to design social work intervention prior evidence based information about the issues of a community is crucial for best outcome. Delhi is dominated by large number of slums and their study can provide ample evidence to plan intervention. Spread of slums in Delhi : JJ (jhuggi jhopri) clusters are scattered all over the … Read more
In present times slums have become a common phenomena associated with city life , especially the metropolitan cities. The challenge of slums : Global report on Human settlements, 2003 presents that in 2001 , 924 million people or 31.6 percent of the world’s urban population, lived in slums and 554 million or 60 percent … Read more
Introduction The word supervision is derived from Latin words super (over) and videre (to watch, to see). Thus, the literal meaning of the term is to oversee, or monitor the work of another with responsibility for its quality. The supervisor gives instructions and assigns tasks and sees to it that the tasks assigned has been … Read more
Introduction With the advancement in technology there has been a paradigm shift in the mode of imparting education especially post secondary education.The flexibility of the system and the rapid advancement of technology has contributed to the recognition of ODL as an effective means of education. Though the technological availability to impart distance learning varies from … Read more
The tools for data collection are questionnaire, interviews, observations,focus group discussion etc.
Techniques of casework practice involves interviewing, observstions, home visit and counselling. Some of the skills are listening, recording, networking and rapport building.
The casework process consists of mainly four phases, i.e, study, diagnosis, treatment and evaluation. These phases are however overlapping with the previous phase and the forthcoming phase.
The groupwork processes usually go through various phases of development before achieving the goal. Tuckman termed them as Forming, Storming, Norming and Performing.… Read more
