Indian Society of Professional Social Work (ISPSW)

Indian Society of Professional Social Work (ISPSW) aims towards meeting challenges of present-day social work practice and creating a platform for information exchange among fellow professionals. The Society was formally known as Indian Society of Psychiatric Social Work, which was established in the year 1970 by Dr. R.K. Upadhyaya, Dr. A.N. Verma and his colleagues of the Dept of Psychiatric Social Work, Central Institute of Psychiatry, Ranchi. Later, it has been constantly upgraded to reach this current status of professional identity and recognition by many stalwart. The nomenclature of the Society was changed in ANC of ISPSW (Dec.1988) at Kolkata, because of an increased representation of educators, practitioners and researchers from all streams of social work in the Society. Since then the Secretariat of the society remained at the Department of Psychiatric Social Work, National Institute of Mental Health and Neuro Sciences, Bangalore till February 2020.

The Society primarily focuses on uniting the professional social workers to discuss, deliberate and develop conceptual frameworks and feasible indigenous interventions in Social work practice. In order to facilitate this cause, the Society has so far conducted XLI (41) Annual National Conferences along with workshops,seminars and symposia on various issues all over India. The ISPSW welcomes you to become a part of this movement.

Historical Milestones

Started ISPSW in 1970 by Dr. R.K. Upadhyaya, Dr. A.N. Verma and his colleagues of the Dept of Psychiatric Social Work, Central Institute of Psychiatry, Ranchi

First National Conference in 1973 at Mahatma Gandhi Kashi Vidyapith, Varanasi (U.P.)

First Joint Conference in 1979 at NIMHANS, Bangalore (Karnataka)

The nomenclature of the Society was changed in ANC of ISPSW in 1988 at Kolkata

Silver Jubilee Conference in 2006 at Visva-Bharati, Santiniketan, Bolpur (W.B.)

Golden Jubilee Conference in 2020 at Central Institute of Psychiatry (CIP), Ranchi, Jharkhand

XXXIX Annual Nation Conference organized by the Department of PSW, MIMH, Pune which was the first virtual (online mode) conference in 18th to 20th March 2021 during the COVID-19 pandemic.

XL Annual Nation Conference organized by the Centre for Social Work, Panjab University, Chandigarh in record short time and very economic mode in 27-28 May 2022.

XLI Annual Nation Conference organized by the ISPSW which was again in the virtual (online mode) conference in 2023

The XLII Annual National conference of Indian Society of Professional Social Work is proposed by the Department of Social Work, Assam University Silchar, Assam for updated information related to the conference please see http://pswjournal.org/index.php/ANC

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