- Social Work: Definition, Scope, Principles, Nature, Goals and Process
- Historical Development: The Development of Professional Social Work around the World (UK, USA and India)
- Social Reform and Professional Social Work: Contribution of social reformers in the 19th and 20th centuries to the development of professional social work in India.
- Sociological Concepts: Social structure, social institutions and social groups, socialization, social control and social change.
- Approaches to the study of society: Functionalist, conflict/dialectical, structuralism and postmodernism.
- Social system and stratification: Major social systems (family and religion), Social stratification: Marxist, functionalist and Weberian perspectives.
- Basic social case work concepts: social roles, social functioning, needs assessment, adaptation, social environment, person-environment fit, principles and components.
- Approaches to social case work practice: Clinical and functional approaches, problem solving, task centered and radical approaches.
- Process and techniques of social case work: Steps in case work intervention, techniques of case work intervention, principles of interviewing and case work recording.
- Community Organization – Concept, definition, scope and historical perspective, role of community-based organizations, human capital and social capital in India, Britain and the United States.
- Process of Community Organization: Steps, methods, principles, skills, concepts, record maintenance of community organization, involvement of NGOs in community organization.
- Approaches in community organization practice- models, strategies, role of community-based organisations, leadership development and leaders, partnerships and coalition building.
- quantitative research
- qualitative research
- mixed methods research
- Social Welfare Administration: Meaning, History, Principles, Nature and Types of Organizations. Types of Administration: Differentiate between Social Welfare Administration, Public Administration and Social Security Administration.
- Registration of Welfare Agencies: Laws, Challenges related to Societies, Trusts and Non-Profit Organizations
- Structure of social welfare administration: Service providers, administrative structures (government and non-government), organization and management of institutional welfare services.
- Social Policy: Concept, goals, scope, context and models of social policy and applicability in the Indian context.
- Historical Development: Evolution and historical perspective of various policies, especially the implementation of social policies for the marginalized and weaker sections of the society.
- Process of policy making: Determinants and steps, approaches to social policy making, impact of changing political scenario in a country.
- Indian Constitution: Features, Features, Preamble, Directive Principles of State Policy and Articles.
- Social Justice: Concept, definition, historical development, dimensions, manifestations and social justice as a core value of social work profession.
- Means of Social Justice: Constitutional basis and Indian legal system, legal and public advocacy, role of civil society as a pressure group, statutory bodies.
- Medical social work and psychiatric social work: Concept, evolution, roles, functions/responsibilities of medical social workers and psychiatric social workers.
- Mental Health and Disease: Normal and abnormal behavior, epidemiology, etiology, types, clinical manifestation and management of schizophrenia, etc.
- Theories of aging and vulnerability: Psychological and sociological theories of aging, psychological, social, etc.
- Social defence: concept, philosophy and changing dimensions, children in need of care and protection, adolescents in conflict with the law, street and working children and young offenders, probation and parole. Emerging Issues in Social Defence.
- Legislation and Criminal Justice System: Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Act, 2000, Immoral Traffic Prevention Act 1986, etc.
- Social work with families: functions, developmental stages and family patterns, family dynamics and theoretical models of family functioning (circumflex model, McMaster model and structural model) and social work interventions.
