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Social Work: Course Outline (SCOW-2202)

Social work is a practice-based profession that promotes social change, development, cohesion and the empowerment of people and communities.

Course Objective

The course is design to orient the Psychology student’s Historical Perspective for understanding current issues of social welfare and Social Work. It will help students to examine the Social, Political, and Economic Forces that explain the Development of Social Welfare and Social Work.

Course Contents

Introduction
a) Social Work and its definition
b) Relationship with Sociology
c) Sociological theory and its applications to Social Work
d) Methods of Social Work
e) Case Work
f) Group Work
g) Community Development
Social Welfare Services
a) Psychiatric Social Work
b) Medical Social Work
c) Social work in Schools
d) Child Welfare                                                                                                                                                                                                              

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