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    Social work methods are applied in a variety of settings, including services for disadvantaged individuals and groups, protective services for those exposed to hazards, and developmental services for children, youth, and isolated groups. The major activities in social work can be classified according to type of service, such as public assistance, social insurance, family services, child welfare services, health and medical services, mental hygiene services, correctional services, employment services, housing services, international services, and community welfare services. Social work aims to provide support and protection to vulnerable populations through a range of programs and initiatives.

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    Social work methods are applied in a variety of settings, including services for disadvantaged individuals and groups, protective services for those exposed to hazards, and developmental services for children, youth, and isolated groups. The major activities in social work can be classified according to type of service, such as public assistance, social insurance, family services, child welfare services, health and medical services, mental hygiene services, correctional services, employment services, housing services, international services, and community welfare services. Social work aims to provide support and protection to vulnerable populations through a range of programs and initiatives.

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    Social work methods are applied in a variety of settings, including services for disadvantaged individuals and groups, protective services for those exposed to hazards, and developmental services for children, youth, and isolated groups. The major activities in social work can be classified according to type of service, such as public assistance, social insurance, family services, child welfare services, health and medical services, mental hygiene services, correctional services, employment services, housing services, international services, and community welfare services. Social work aims to provide support and protection to vulnerable populations through a range of programs and initiatives.

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    Social work methods are applied in a variety of settings, including services for disadvantaged individuals and groups, protective services for those exposed to hazards, and developmental services for children, youth, and isolated groups. The major activities in social work can be classified according to type of service, such as public assistance, social insurance, family services, child welfare services, health and medical services, mental hygiene services, correctional services, employment services, housing services, international services, and community welfare services. Social work aims to provide support and protection to vulnerable populations through a range of programs and initiatives.

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    The Fields of Social work

    Methods of social work are applied in a variety of settings. The setting


    consist of :

    1. Service to disadvantaged individuals and groups, the sick,


    handicapped, destitute, dependent children and aged, minority groups
    2. Services that provide protection to individuals and groups that are

    exposed to unusual hazards and hardships, such as disabled veterans;


    victims of natural disaster, epidemics, or war emergencies; families of
    servicemen and
    3. Protective, culture, and developmental services for children and
    youth, senior citizens, Indians on reservations and isolated groups in
    need of community integration.

    The major activities in the field of social work may be classified


    according to type of service as follows:

    Public Assistance :

    Social Services to persons in financial need, including general


    assistance or indigent aid,: categorical assistance of higher standards to
    the aged, blind, totally disabled and dependent children and institutional
    care for indigent aged, blind and other handicapped persons who cannot
    live at home.
    Social Insurance:

    To provide services to insured workers, self-employed people and


    their families with protection against the loss of income due to old age,
    unemployment, industrial accidents, occupational diseases and certain
    aspects of other illnesses through medical care, hospitalaisation and
    rehabilitation.

    Family Services:

    Case work and counseling on personal and family relations, marriage,


    health, economic and budget problems, special services to people away
    from home, migratory families, prisoners and provisions of legal aid.

    Child Welfare Services :

    Placement of children in foster care and children’s institutions, day


    nurseries , day – care centers, supervision of foster families ,adoptions;
    protective service to child labour, maladjustment and social behaviour
    infant and pre school child care.

    Health and Medical Services:

    Maternal and child health services , visiting nurses services, financial


    and medical aid and rehabilitation to crippled children, blind and deaf,
    victims of major diseases , under both public and private agency
    auspices.

    Mental Hygiene Services:

    Vocational training, placing-out and supervision of patients suffering


    from nervous disease, rehabilitation services , preventive and therapeutic
    treatments.

    Correctional Services:

    Probation services in juvenile and criminal courts; diagnostic and


    treatment services, case work and group work in detention homes ,
    prisons , reformatories, assisting adjustment of offenders and in their
    preparation for return to community life, community services for
    prevention of delinquency.

    Employment Services:

    Training and guidance for self- employment. Placement of workers


    looking for jobs; assistance to industry and agriculture in finding
    qualified workers, vocational guidance , labour protection and safety
    education .
    Housing Services:

    Family and child services in public housing projects and new housing
    developments, Slum clearance and city development.

    International Services :

    Such international agencies like Red cross, YMCA,WHO,etc., are


    providing the technical assistance, youth programs, health services,
    mental health programs, youth developmental programs and which
    require competence in community organization, planning, supervision
    and social welfare administration.

    Community Welfare Services:

    Planning organizing and financing social and health services through


    such media as Community Welfare Councils, Planning Boards,
    Community Chests, Untied funds, coordinating and neighbourhood
    councils.

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