SKILL IN SOCIAL CASE WORK

                                 



Social case work requires professional skills in dealing with the client  and enabling him to secure satisfactory social and personal balance. It is believed that the following factors are essential for the development of skill in social work.
Knowledge Of Human Growth and Development
Great nfluence on the personality ground of the individual. If the case worker is to understand the client in his entire he must have a knowledge of the interpersonal relationship.
Interviewing Process
Development of skill in social case work practice requires knowledge in the interviewing process. It is through the interviewing that the worker can get first hand knowledge about the client and his problem, either from the client or his associates. It is through interviewing that the case worker can go beyond the external behavior of the client and entire into his inner life. If he is successful interviewer, he can know many things about the client’s problem and his reaction to it by analyzing his mode of talking, answering, gestures and even silence at particular points.
Use of Resources
The development of skill in social work depends to a great extent on the case worker’s knowledge of the resource so the client, of the agency and of the community at large.
PRINCIPLES OF SOCIAL CASE WORK
In social case work process, a social worker has to deal with number of persons having problems of different nature. As the person’s behavior dynamic nature. Therefore to solve their problems, case worker has adopt different approaches and methods depending upon the uniqueness the situation. Because of this variation between the nature of the problems, there are some well recognized general techniques which provides enough guidance to every case worker in solving the problems.
These techniques  are called the principles or methods of social case work. These principle, are defined as;
“The principles are those well recognized general techniques, which provides enough guidance to social worker in solving the problems”.
These principles are referred as;
1. Principle of request
2. Principle of acceptance
3. Principle of communication
4. Principle of confidentiality
5. Principle of individuality
6. Principle of participation
7. Principle of self determination
8. Principle of responsibility
9. Principle of self awareness
1.   Principle of Request
In fact, the case work process start, from this principle, which is the first professional contact between the cast worker and the client.
2.   Principle of Acceptance
“Acceptance means to accept the client with all his deficiencies and draw backs as a person with a problem”.
This rapport of mutual understanding helps enough to solve the problems of the client.
3.   Principle of Communication
In social case work, communication refers to the mutual exchange of ideas between the client and the case worker. When a client approaches the case worker to seek help. The case worker is not completely acquainted with the client and his problems. He can only understand the client through by the exchange of ideas and feeling through mutually through communication.