Mangaluru: The symposium on “Validation of Family Centered Social Work Method: Contemporary Challenges” held at the School of Social Work, Roshni Nilaya was inaugurated today. Dr Bino Thomas, Additional Professor of Psychiatry, National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences(NIMHANS), Bengaluru was the chief guest. In his inaugural address, he congratulated the institute for regularly organising Spandana for the past two decades with apt social work themes.
In the present context, families are undergoing tremendous changes at an alarming speed making social work interventions a necessity. Building healthy and sustainable families need to be the fulcrum of all social work interventions. The theme selected for the symposium is the most contemporary and called upon the delegates to have a great intellectual journey from the conference he added.
Karuna, a leading legal professional from LexLeo Advocates & Consultants, Bangalore who has vast experience in family law, in her keynote address, highlighted crisis-hit families due to the emerging diversities and inclusion-related issues. She opined that these crises are inevitable and in these situations, resilience is embedded in the families.
Presiding over the programme, Dr Jemis Mary, Vice Principal highlighted the changing patterns of families. Families are becoming smaller. There are many families where there is only a single child. The assumption is that the single child fulfils all his or her requirements in the family. The most important thing is that the child should develop learning and bonding in families. It is not possible when both parents are working and there is a single child. Highlighting family values she stated that millions of books cannot teach what a family does. The amount of support one could gather from the family is infinite. She called upon the social workers to address the changing requirements of the families to have a healthy society.
Dr Sophia N Fernandez, Principal of the college. Prof. Eveleen Bennis, HoD of MSW, Jinsa Joseph, Organising Secretary, Anuradha Shetty, Asst.Co-ordinator, Sona Prakash Student convenor and Delilah Valerie Goveas among others were present. Over 200 delegates participated in the symposium.
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