Social Worker

Social Service

The social worker interacts with people in order to help them overcome or adapt to their problems and debilities. Helping the disabled to adjust to their disabilities, offering commiserations to the emotionally disturbed, counselling a rape victim, showing compassion to the disadvantaged, rehabilitating the drug addict and the criminal and alleviating such other evils as poverty, unemployment, social discrimination etc. are some of the duties of the social worker.

Job Market:
The qualified persons can find employment in non-governmental welfare organisations, and as Welfare Officers in corporate houses. They can also function as criminologists, psychiatric social workers, family welfare officers, child welfare officers, juvenile delinquent welfare workers etc. They also have a useful role to play in drug and alcohol dea-ddiction centres, old age homes, orphanages, crisis management units, rural education and health etc. Thus the trained personnel have myriad opportunities to usefully serve society.

Training Programmes:
Bachelor in Social Work (BSW) and Master in Social Work (MSW) are regular programmes offered in many centres. BSW is a 3 year course available to those who have completed +2/equivalent. MSW is a 2 year programme offered after BSW/B.A (Sociology)/B.A in any social science. Those interested in pursuing a career in education or research could pursue M.Phil and Ph.D in this field.