Social Work Practice in Psychiatric Setting: The Need for Sociologcal Perspective

Page: 300-304
Dinesh Deman (Psychiatric Centre, Sethi Colony, Jaipur, Attached Hospital, SMS Medical College, Jaipur, Rajasthan)

Social work practice in psychiatric setting is crucial issue with reference to mental hygiene. Our present psychiatric setting there is so many psychiatric social work practitioners playing their role for the exploration of social psychological problems. These problems have been emerging due to transformation of joint family system into nuclear family system. In which all the family members want to abide according to their own develop new conventional norms rather than old traditional norms of 19th century resulting they want to prefer to live own life style, i.e., individual forms of style without any interference of the family members. But sometime these members have not been accepting the present situation ultimately suffering from the problem of normal behavior due to conflicts with the members of family. These conflicts have requirement of social work practice to examine the nature of interpersonal conflict in mental health problem of individual (client) for the management of his/ her social problem through the counseling method and there after the client could become normal in the society. The social work practice has one of the part of the counseling model under which they try to involvement of the client and understanding their nature of interaction brake down with the family members and make the line of action plan to solve the problem of the individual where he / she is living in the defective family environment by which they are suffering from mental health problem.