Probation Officer Paper II: Social Work & Criminology · 1 Social Work: Definition, Scope, Values and Practice in India · APPSC Paper I
1.1 Foundations of social work notes
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- 1.1.1Social work: definitions, history, scope and the profession in India
Social work is a professional, scientific helping service that improves the social functioning of individuals, groups and communities; it grew out of the Charity Organisation Society (London, 1869) and the settlement movement (Toynbee Hall, 1884), and became a profession in India with the Sir Dorabji Tata Graduate School of Social Work, Bombay (1936), now TISS.
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Social work rests on values (dignity and worth of every person, social justice), turned into principles for practice (Biestek's seven: individualisation, purposeful expression of feelings, controlled emotional involvement, acceptance, non-judgemental attitude, client self-determination, confidentiality) and written down in codes of ethics (NASW 1960/1996; IFSW–IASSW 2018; India's Declaration of Ethics, 1997).
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