Social work optional class notes for UPPSC exam 2017 by Satyendra
Agnihotri sir covered in 4 booklets accordingly UPPCS syllabus details is below:-

SOCIAL WORK : Paper-I - Social work: Philosophy and Methods Social work: Meaning, Objectives, Scope, Assumptions & Values; History of Social work in U.K. U.S.A. and India, philosophy of Social Work. Democratic (Equality, Justice Liberty & Fraternity) and Humanitarian (Human Rights) Matrix. Social works as a profession. Methods of Social work Social Case work : Meaning, Scope Principles, Processes (Psychosocial study, Assessments, treatmentgoal formulation and techniques), Evaluation, Follow-up and Rehabilitation. Social Groups work: Meaning, Objective, Principles, Skills, Processes (Study, Diagnosis, treatment and evaluation), Programme, Planning and Development, Role of Social group worker, Leadership Development. Meaning, Objective, Principles, Approaches, Roles of Community organization : Community Organization Worker. Social Welfare Administration : Meaning Scope, Auspices-Private and Public, Principles, Basic Administrative Processes and Practicedecision making communication, planning. organisation, budgeting and finacial control, reporting. : Meaning objectives, types, scope, Social work Research scientific method, Selection and formulation of the problem Research Design Sampling, Sources and Methods of Data Collection, Processing of Data, analysing and interpretation, Report writing. Social Action: Meaning, Scope, approaches (Sarvodays, Antyodaya etc.) and Strategies.

Paper-II Social Problems and Fields of Social work in India Problem pertaining to Marriage, Family and caste: Dowry- child Marriage, Divorce, Families with working couples, Disorganised Families, Families with Emigrant Heads of the Households, Gender Inequality, Authoritarian Family structure, Major Changes in Caste systems and problem of casteism. Problems Pertaining of Weaker Sections. Problems of Children, Women Aged. Handicapped and Backward Classes (SCs, STs, and other Backward Classes). Truancy Vagrancy and Juvenile Delinquency, Crime, Problems of Deviance: White Colla Crime, Organized Crime, Collective Violence, Terrorism, Prostitution and Sex Related Crimes. Social Vices: Alcohilism. Drug Addiction, Beggary, Corruption and communalism. Problems of Social Structure : Poverty, Unemployment, Bonded Labour, Child Labour. Fields of Soclalwork India : Child Development, Development of Youth, Women's Empowerment, Welfare of aged, Welfare of Physically. Mentally and Social Handicapped, Welfare of backward Classes (Scs, STs and Other Backward Classes) Rural Development Urban Community Development, Medical And Psychiatric Social work, Industrial Social work, Social Security offender Reforms.