*School of Social Work, University of Zimbabwe, MP 167 Mount Pleasant, Harare, Zimbabwe
**Department of Social Sciences, Bindura University of Science Education, Private Bag, Bindura, Zimbabwe
Online published on 21 November, 2013.
Social casework remains relevant as a method of social work in Africa, although it was developed and nurtured in the western world. Its universal applicability continues to be scrutinised, with recommendations that the practice and fieldwork training methodologies, currently in use, need to be transformed in line with the realities of the needs of social work practice and the needs of different countries. And observations are also that this can only happen if the educational framework, the definition of the client –worker relationship and methods used in social casework conform to local social work systems, local culture and social structures.
Casework, education, methodology, relationship, practice, training, tradition, social work
