About the Book
Social Work and Human Relations takes a fresh look at the profession of social work to arrive at a better understanding of its professional character, to increase its effectiveness in helping people. It highlights the inability of social work educators to come to terms with a lucid definition of social work, clearly demarcating the scope and role of social work. It argues that social workers have specific resources and capacities to intervene in the lives of people at different level to help them. The basic expertise of social workers consist of their understanding of human relationships and social and psychological environment that structure these. The strategies of dealing with these, particularly at community and societal level, are more complex in nature, and hence require greater persistence. These, therefore, should not be clubbed with dealing with face-to-face relationships in families and other smaller groups, where a more definite timeframe is possible for dealing with these. Both require very different knowledge inputs to provide effective professional expertise and skills for social work practitioners.
The book addresses both the social work educators and practitioners to become more focused in what they chose to do in practice, by discussing individual and family problems on the one hand, and larger social issues requiring social action on the other.
Contents
• Introduction
• Social Work and Human Relations
• Human Relations: Theories and Concepts
• The Self-Concept
• Family Relations
• Conflicts in Relationships
• Working with Families
• Working with Individuals
• Working with Groups
• Working with Communities
• Social Action: Dealing with Macro Realities
• Skills of Facilitating Relationships
• Techniques of Facilitating Relationships
• Rethinking Social Work in India
About the Author / Editor
H.Y. Siddiqui is well-known in academic world for his contribution to social work profession. He taught in the Department of Social Work, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi for over 35 years (1969–2005), Department of Social Work, Mizoram University (2006–2007) and Maulana Azad National Urdu University, Hyderabad (2010–2015). He has been striving to make social work a profession of excellence by advocating for specific skills for students and use of theory to help their clients at all levels.
He has served on a number of professional committees in India, including The Panel on Social Work Education, Third Review Committee in Social Work, National Curriculum Development Center, Standing Committee for Coaching of Minorities, UGC, Rehabilitation Council of India, Association of Schools of Social Work in India and Delhi Association of Trained Social Workers etc.
