Field Work is essentially a major component in social work education both at undergraduate and postgraduate level in Social Work Courses. Field Work Practicum is a compulsory paper in each and every semester of BSW and MSW Programme and thus occupies a dominant place in social work education. The book not only contains the basic concepts, components, ethical issues and challenges of field work practice, but also both theory and practice-based knowledge and its application in various important contemporary areas of social work practice.
The book is designed to help the social work students to acquire knowledge, basic understanding of different areas of practice, skills and competence to work efficiently in various field work situations. Most of the chapters in the book are contributed by leading academicians in the fields of social work from various schools of social work in India and abroad.
The book will be extremely useful for the students of social work and allied disciplines. It will also be very useful for the academicians, researchers, practitioners and policymakers.
Dr. Bishnu Mohan Dash, MSW (Visva- Bharati), M.Phil. and Ph.D. (Delhi University), is Assistant Professor in Social Work at Bhim Rao Ambedkar College (University of Delhi). Having a brilliant academic career throughout, he has also qualified UGC-NET and is an editorial board member of many international journals.
An accomplished academician, Dr. Dash is Associate Editor of South Asian Journal of Participative Development, Managing Editor, Academia (An international journal on social sciences, humanities and languages), former Chief Editor of Learning Community, an international journal on social science, and Associate Chief Editor of Educational Quest. Some of the books authored/co- authored/edited by him include Rural Development in India, New Directions in Rural Development (Discovery), Community Organization in Social Work (Discovery), A Case Study on Delhi University Cooperative Thrift and Credit Society (Lambert, Germany), and New Perspectives in Community Development (Atlantic). He has also published many papers and contributed chapters for MSW course of IGNOU,
Dr. Sanjoy Roy, MSW, M.Phil., Ph.D. and qualified UGC-NET is working as Associate Professor in Social Work in Delhi University. He has wide R&D experience with AIIMS, Assam University, Silchar, C.S.J.M. University, Kanpur, IGNOU, New Delhi, and Visva Bharati, Santiniketan.
Some of Dr. Roy’s books include Women in Contemporary India: Realities and Perspectives (Akansha Publication), New Directions in Rural Development and Prospect, Social Welfare Administration: Field Work in Social Work Education (Rawat), Migrant Rickshaw Pullers in Delhi: Assessment from Social Work Perspectives (Lambert, Germany), Methods and Development of Social Work (Discovery), and New Perspectives in Community Development (Atlantic).
