PROBLEMS AFFECTING THE INDIGENISATION OF SOCIAL-WORK PROFESSION IN ASIA

Professional development of social work is a phenomenon of industrial civilisation, and as such its structure and the supportive organisational base have remained primarily urban; and its growth, slow and truncated. While tracing various efforts at indigenisation of the methods, fields of service and their research-base to suit the cultural and social requirements of some of the countries ot Asia, the author opines that the effort at indigenisation has its own constraint in view of the professional knowledge being universal in nature. Besides, as the world is rapidly becoming a ''global village'', the social work profession has to view its future from the larger perspective of advocacy and change towards social action and development.