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needs, psychological needs etc. and about the distress caused by non-fulfillment of needs. Then we discussed about the problems faced by individuals and families in their day-to-day life and the role of caseworker in resolving the problem, then the scope of casework in social work. Casework as a tool of dealing with individual has become an important method of social work.
References Hamilton, Gordon (1940), “Theory and Practice of Social Case Work, Columbia University Press, New York. Mathew, Grace (1991), An Introduction to Social Work, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai. Richmond Mary (1917), Social Diagnosis, Russell Sage Foundation, New York. Scope & Methods of the Family Service Agency (1953), Family Service Association of America, New York.