Definition of social case work By Different Authors 

Last Updated on July 17, 2024 by Muzammil Ijaz

Definition of social case work By Different Authors

The process of social case work involves the study of individual problems in its total setting. It is concerned with the understanding of individual as the whole personalities and the adjustment of the individual to socially healthy life. As a method of social work, it involves a very careful observation of a problem. Social case wok has been defined in various ways by various writers.

Definition of social case work By Mary Richmond (1922)

“Social case work consists of those processes which develop personality through adjustments consciously effected, individual by individual, between men and their social environment.”

Definition of social case work By Mary Richmond (1917)

“Social case work may be defined as the art of doing different things for and with different people by cooperating with them to achieve at one and the same time their own and society’s betterment.”

Definition of social case work By Helen Harris Perlman (1957)

“A process used by certain human welfare agencies to help individuals to cope more effectively with their problems in social functioning.”

Definition of social case work By Swithun Bowers

“An art in which knowledge of science of human relation skills in relationship are used to mobilize capacities in the individual and resources in the community. Appropriate for better adjustment between client and all or any parts of his total environment.”

Definition of social case work By Robert Lee Barker

“Social case work is the method of affecting the understanding of the needs, resources and reactions of the individual.”

Definition of social case work By Dr. Jonathan Swift

“Social case work is the art of helping an individual in developing and making use of his/her personal capacities to deal with problems which he/she faces in his/her social environment”

Definition of social case work By Gordon and Hamilton

“Social case work which is both a tool and area of work consists of processes which develop personality through adjustment consciously affect individual by individual between man and his social environment”.