Specialization Paper 1 Family & Child Studies:
Social Work and Family
Subject Code: MSW 553
Credits: 3
Objectives:
- To understand the family as a social institution, to sensitized students about the different Dynamics/ Complexes that exists in families and contemporary family problems and its impact on a Child and family.
- To enable students to have a critical view and approaches when working with families
- To sharpen the skills, techniques & interventions required for working with family.
- To understand the governmental efforts for strengthening the families.
- To develop skills to participate in programmes and activities related to the areas of Family Life education.
Content
Unit 1: Understanding Family
1:1Concept of family, types
of family and its implications, Patriarchal and Matriarchal and its
implications, (Residential patterns, Patterns of descent)
1.2: Family values, Healthy
Family Dynamics, Power/role structure, and family functioning.
1.3: Concept of Marriage;
Review of changing situations in marriages and marital relationship, divorce
and its implication on the children.
1.4: Contemporary family problems.
Unit 2:
Family life education
2.1: Family Life Education concept and meaning (objectives,
operational principles and FLE code of ethics Levels of Family Life Education),
2.2: Importance of Family Life
Education
2.3: Role of different institutions in
providing Family Life Education.
2.4: Qualities and
skills required for family life educator.
Unit 3: Areas of family life
education
3.1: Life Skills Education, Parenting styles, Characteristics,
goals, needs, tasks and problems of each stage in the family life cycle (family
life cycle and developmental stages)
3.2:
Premarital preparation, marriage and married life, planned parenthood, family
relationships; Communication in family; home management.
Unit
4: An overview of working with Families - interventions, techniques and
skills:
4.1: Family centered social work – problem solving approach;
4.2: Life enrichment programmes – developmental approach;
4.3: Programmes for family empowerment and protection of human
rights;
4.4: Efforts of government in
strengthening families – Policy, Legislation and programmes; - A brief review
of ICDS, Micro-credit, component plan,
Schemes for families, Public Distribution System, Health – Family Welfare
Programme, Health Insurance.
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