Social Work Methods and Correctional Service.
Introduction
Social Work emerged as a profession in the 20th century and
today, it is charged with social welfare mandate of promoting the welfare and the well-being of vulnerable people as well as the community with a greater quality
of life. Thus, social work encompasses activities directed to improving human
and social conditions and alleviating human distress and social problems. On
the other hand, social work as a caregiver or caring profession work with people
to enhance their competency level and social functioning and to create humanely
and responsive social services and by dint of these the social structure is
expanded to create an opportunity for the community in specific and society at
large. Since the birth of the prison, the criminal justice system has been
criticized for inhuman treatment to its prisoners and various aspects of its
failure to make criminals into law-abiding citizens all over the world.
AIM OF CORRECTIONAL
SERVICES:
- To restore and enhance the social functioning
- To Correcting and Modifying the Personality of Criminals, Survivors or Victims
- To reintegrate back into society to the Survivor and Criminals
Social
Work Methods and Correctional Setting :
A Correctional
setting (or Criminal justice social workers or prison social workers which are
synonymous) as they are sometimes called are social workers whose clients are,
have been or may soon be imprisoned or incarceration. Social workers in
correctional or criminal justice settings have two basic ethical and
professional obligations:
- (1) To ameliorate the mental health needs of their clients, to return individuals to the community who will be productive,
- (2) To serve the interests of public safety.
METHODS
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RELATION WITH
CORRECTIONAL SERVICES
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Social casework
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The purpose is to
help an individual client to solve his/her psycho-social problems in such a
way, so that the client finds himself/herself capable of dealing with these
problems at present and also may solve in the future if such problems arise.
On the other, it understands the internal problems of the individuals, strengthens their ego power, remediates problems and develops the resources to enhance social functioning.
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Social group work
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It is a powerful method by transforming the attitude and behavior with the correctional services of offenders. It strengthens the emotion by gaining inner resilience and increasing the feeling that, they are not helpless.
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Community organization
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It brings and maintains a progressively more effective adjustment between social welfare resources and social welfare needs to the convicts.
On the other side,
it reintegrates and rehabilitates with society.
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Social welfare administration
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By evaluating the organizational performance, it facilitates a systematic and continuous problem-solving
approaches for the client. Thus, it enables the process by involving decision making.
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Social action
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It makes a proper shape and develops the socio-cultural environment, In which a more affluent life is possible for all.
Like: - Public
Interest Litigation (PIL) process goes for a long period so that the under a trial are kept in jail without any processed, in that case, the social worker
to give justice.
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Social work research
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It improves and
enlarges the treatment in the fields of correctional services by the help of
extensive research.
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