This book, "An Introduction to Social Casework," is designed to convey its purpose, method, and content. The author aims to familiarize the reader with the essence of social casework, including its historical stages, concepts, principles, objectives, characteristics, elements, and processes. In essence, this book presents the fundamental aspects and foundations of the social casework method. The first chapter discusses the historical stages that social casework has gone through, presented through various narratives. The second chapter covers the definitions, characteristics, and objectives of social casework. In the third chapter, the professional concepts and principles that a practitioner adheres to in their work are presented, which guide them towards successful professional practice. The fourth chapter clarifies the essential components without which the elements of social casework are incomplete, including the client, the specialist, the problem, the social institution, and professional intervention or the helping process. The fifth chapter serves to explain to the reader and the novice the benefits of other sciences to social casework, illustrating its relationship with other disciplines. The sixth chapter presents the first professional process in social casework, which is the study process or the process of collecting data and information.

• Number of Pages: 200
• Year of Publication: 2017
• Binding Type: Paperback
• Edition Number: 1
• Print Color: Black
• Dimensions (cm): 17x24
• Weight (kg): 0.500
• Barcode: 9789957875237