Social Work In Pakistan

DEVELOPMMENTAL STAGES OF SOCIAL WORK PROFESSION IN PAKISTAN AND AT INTERNATIONAL LEVEL:

STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT:

In Pakistan, the concept of professional social work was started in 1951 as a diploma course was started. Government of Pakistan invited United Nations experts to train the people in this specific concept in order to have our own technical personal to work with, and for people to promote social welfare generally.

ISLAMIC PRESPECTIVE

In Islam helping others is our priority and Pakistan is an Islamic republic. If we pay zakat according to the principles of Islam, it would not be necessary to call the UN expert.

UNITED NATION EXPERTS

Social work is a borrowed concept that is why UN experts were invited to train people how to solve several

These investments meet the material needs of social work’s clients and facilitate their full integration into the social and economic life of the community. Developmental social workers believe that client strengths and capabilities need to be augmented with public resources and services if those served by the profession are to live productive and fulfilling lives. Although developmental social work is inspired by international innovations, particularly in the developing countries, the book shows that it also has relevance to the United States and other Western nations. It also contends that developmental social work practice is not confined to community organization or other macro-practice interventions, and that developmental ideas can be implemented in mainstream fields of social work practice such as child welfare, mental health, aging, social assistance and correctional social work. They offer a highly original exposition of developmental social work theory and practice. They draw widely on innovative examples from the United States and other countries to show how developmental ideas can be implemented in everyday social work

The practice and profession of social work has a relatively modern and scientific origin, and is generally considered to have developed out of three strands. The first was individual casework, a strategy pioneered by the Charity Organization Society in the mid-19th century. The second was social administration, which included various forms of poverty relief. State-wide poverty relief could be said to have its roots in the English Poor Laws of the 17th century, but was first systematized through the efforts of the Charity Organization Society. The third consisted of social action rather than engaging in the resolution of immediate individual requirements, the emphasis was placed on political action working through the community and the group to improve their social conditions and thereby alleviate poverty. This approach was developed originally by the settlement house