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Subrat SaurabhAuthor of Kuch Woh Pal
Social casework interventions has to be need based and tailor made for each client because each client experiences different social, environmental and personal problems. The book sheds light on the indispensable role of social casework as a method, individual, family and other psychosocial factors in a client’s environment and the ways of bringing about constructive personality change. It gives a complete social casework format for any budding social caseworker. A detailed case work in different setting and the intervention process is caputred by the contributors. It can help in preparing students for social casework and the various interventions that are practiced by the social caseworker in the modern and complex times. The book is a reference and a catalyst for Psycho-social assessment and intervention for social workers practicing casework in a mental health/psychiatric setting.
The editors of the book are Medical and Psychiatric social workers, and have years of experience in teaching and practice of Social Casework in mental, social and psychiatric setting. Other contributors are budding psychiatric social work trainees. This book is the result of our field work experience.
Dr. Augustine Lourdu G
Dr. Augusting Lourdu G has completed his PhD in Social work and has been working as an assistant professor in the deparment of medical and psychiatric social work for the past 8 years. He has been psychiaric Counsellor for a period of five years in Holy Cross Hospital in southern Part of India, during which he explored the depth of social diagnosis through case work as a great tool for intervention. He has published number of research articles and published a book. His thrust on the need for using methods of social work as a great tool is an out come of field work experience. He taught the primary methods of social work and encourages students to use them to help the individual, group and communities.
