Speech Genres and Other Late Essays

Green Social Work: From Environmental Crises to Environmental Justice Lena Dominelli Cambridge, UK, Polity Press, 2012 244pp., ISBN 9780745654010, $33.00 (paperback) It is always exciting to pick u...

Green Social Work: From Environmental Crises to Environmental Justice

The cancer patient is the outcast of our times. Because of its unknown etiology, cancer stirs an unconscious disquiet and fear in us. Patients soon notice that, little by little, they become isolated. Even relatives stop coming to call. As one author in this book puts it, the cancer patient is the leper of the 20th century. Patients feel that an ominous internal invasion of their body is taking place. There follows a feeling of hopelessness with a reversion to early infantile helplessness. It is at this point that patients turn to their physician. Should not physicians be equipped to offer skillful, essential psychological support as well as chemotherapy and radiotherapy? This book attempts to address this issue in presenting psychotherapeutic methods available to aid physicians helping their cancer patients to cope with the stresses of their illness. It also deals with theoretical constructs of cancer as a psychosomatic manifestation.

Psychotherapeutic Treatment of Cancer Patients

As the authors point out, social work operates on egalitarian principles of tolerance, celebrating diversity, advocacy and the empowerment of disadvantaged, minority and marginalised groups.In rece...

Islam and Social Work

Gita in Sankara's own words

education which integrates indigenous theories and cultural practices. It focuses on the need to diversify and reorient social work curriculum to include indigenous traditions of service, charity and volunteerism to help social work evolve as a profession in India. The volume analyzes the history of social work education in India and how the discipline has adapted and changed in the last 80 years. It emphasizes the need for the Indianization of social work curriculum so that it can be applied to the socio-cultural contours of a diverse Indian society. The book delineates strategies and methods derived from meditation, yoga, bhakti and ancient Buddhist and Hindu philosophy to prepare social work practitioners with the knowledge, and skills, that will support and enhance their ability to work in partnership with diverse communities and indigenous people. This book is essential reading for teachers, educators, field practitioners and students of social work, sociology, religious studies, ancient philosophy, law and social entrepreneurship. It will also interest policy makers and those associated with civil society organizations.

Indian Social Work

Overreliance on linear theories of social change particularly and denial of autonomy to indigenous fundamental social institutions are major tentacles of colonial legacy which has created obstacles for developing independent perspectives on social work in India. It has also critically examined the adverse impacts of colonial legacy on indigenous social institutions and traditional practices in India related to health, family welfare and women empowerment, environment conservation and village development besides making recommendations for revival of the social work discipline in India with a vision to place it on right track for meaningful national and global contributions. The paper has recommended for adopting the Bharatiyakaran/Indianisation of social work education in India.
Key Terms: Social Change, Professional Imperialism, colonial legacy, Bharatiyakaran/Indianisation of Social Work Education, AfrocentricSocial Work

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Siddheshwar Shukla

Papers

Indian Social Work

Colonial legacy and professional imperialism in social work: Calls for Bharatiyakaran / Indianisation of social work education in India