Applicability and Relevance of Social Work Knowledge and Skills in the Context of Bangladesh

Abstract

The practice of social work is correlated with the successful application of its knowledge and skills with different sections of people. Although social work in Bangladesh as an academic discipline is heavily influenced by the clinical social work practice basically borrowed from developed countries, especially from the USA, there is an increasing demand for qualified social workers for working in the development fields. Therefore, the curriculum of social work has included different issues relating to both clinical practices as well as socioeconomic development activities. But the students of social work are inadequately trained up because of which they hardly come to know as to how the knowledge and skills of social work could effectively be used for socioeconomic development for the poor and for the improvement of mental state and psychological affairs of the affected people due to our ill-structured field work training program. There seems to be huge prospects for appropriately trained social workers in the fields of development activities and also in some specific practice settings which are yet to be fully discovered in Bangladesh. The application of social work knowledge is widely but not appropriately or consistently ensured by most of the NGOs functioning in the country, and as a result the services provided are not at all flawless. In this paper, attempts are taken to explore and recommend the effectiveness of social work knowledge in the said fields by presenting certain innovative strategies towards gaining field-based knowledge with a view to opening a new horizon of social work practice in a country like ours.

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