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The document discusses the modern concept of social work. It describes social work as a practice-based profession that promotes social change, social cohesion, and empowerment. Some key points: - Social work has three main functions: curative/rehabilitative, preventive, and developmental. - The curative/rehabilitative function aims to cure issues like physical/social/psychological problems through services like healthcare, psychiatry, child welfare, and rehabilitation for disabled people. - The preventive function identifies potential problems and tries to prevent issues like disease, insecurity, and ignorance through services such as public assistance, education, and legislation. - The developmental function seeks to strengthen individuals',

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Modern Concept

The document discusses the modern concept of social work. It describes social work as a practice-based profession that promotes social change, social cohesion, and empowerment. Some key points: - Social work has three main functions: curative/rehabilitative, preventive, and developmental. - The curative/rehabilitative function aims to cure issues like physical/social/psychological problems through services like healthcare, psychiatry, child welfare, and rehabilitation for disabled people. - The preventive function identifies potential problems and tries to prevent issues like disease, insecurity, and ignorance through services such as public assistance, education, and legislation. - The developmental function seeks to strengthen individuals',

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"Modern Concept of Social Work"

Introduction:
Social work is a practice-based profession and an academic discipline that promotes
social change and development, social cohesion, and the empowerment and liberation of
people. Principles of social justice, human rights, collective responsibility and respect for
diversities are central to social work.
Some social workers help clients who face a disability or a life-threatening disease or a
social problem, such as inadequate housing, unemployment, or substance abuse. Social
workers also assist families that have serious domestic conflicts, sometimes involving
child or spousal abuse.

Functions of Social Work:

Social work has generally concentrated on the curative or rehabilitative functions,


preventive functions, development functions and has worked on the problem-solving
model.
The function of social work refers to the natural activity of social work or the statements
of how social work operates.
The three functions of social work are:
1. Curative or Rehabilitative Functions.
2. Preventive Functions.
3. Development Functions.

Curative or Rehabilitative Functions:

The services provided under curative functions are–medical and health services, services
relating to psychiatry, child guidance, child welfare services, and services for the
handicapped or disabled in the form of protection and rehabilitation. These kinds of
services aim to cure the physical, social, material, and psychological sickness of
individuals in society.
Curative as well as rehabilitative function is to assist individuals and groups to identify
and resolve or minimize problems arising out of disequilibrium between themselves and
the environment.
To illustrate, the girl has a mental health problem because she’s in an unhealthy
environment. Hence, in a curative aspect the advocate must encourage her to seek help
from mental health professionals to reduce the factors to the breakdown of her social
functioning and in terms of rehabilitative aspects, she should have opportunities to help
her in living, working, and learning.

Preventive Functions:

Preventive function - to identify potential areas of disequilibrium between individuals or


groups and the environment in order to prevent occurrence of disequilibrium. This
involves early discovery, control and elimination of those conditions or situations which
may have a harmful effect on social functioning.
It includes life insurance services, public assistance, social legislation, adult education
and prevention of diseases etc. This type of function basically deals with the services
relating to the prevention of problems like insecurity, unlawfulness, ignorance, sickness
etc. It is directed towards the elimination of those factors in the social environment or
those deficiencies in the development of personality that prevent the individual from
achieving a minimum desirable standard of socio-economic life.
To give you an idea, In prevention of sexual disease, people should have knowledge
about different types of STI and how we can protect ourselves to this disease in order to
avoid being infected.

Development Function:

Developmental function seeks out, identifies, and strengthens the maximum potentials in
individuals, groups and communities. The aim is both to help the individual make
maximum use of his own potentials and capacities as well as to further the effectiveness
of available social or community resources.
The developmental function includes the tasks of socio-economic development activities
such as education, recreational services, urban and rural development programmes and
programmes of integration etc which are primarily concerned with the development of
individuals, families, groups and communities.
developmental function is to strengthen the potentials of the individual.If you look at the
people who are struggling in life, giving aid to them with regard to recreational activities
is such a huge help. For the reason that it affects the emotional and physical health of an
individual and has a lot of benefits.

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