week14: Limitations and Challenges of social welfare program, planned social change

The Limitations and Challenges of Social Welfare Programs 

 

Some of the limitations and challenges of social work and welfare programs need to be mentioned here; putting the ideal philosophies and principles of social wok programs alone does not suffice. Some of such limitations include the following (Personal communication, Dr Teketel Abebe, AAU, Dept of Sociology and Social Anthropology): 

• There is often the possibility of creating dependency syndrome on the part of the targets. The very term “client” may here imply some kind of dependence by affected people on service providers. Despite the main aim of social work is to help people help themselves, there may often be the risk of creating dependency syndrome. 

Change is inevitable and universal; it may take place at the expense of human social life and progress. Planned social change is essentially a social action to bring about positive social change in the community; it is a conscientious, deliberate and purposeful action to achieve a determined change in the part of a client system

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