Social Work

Social Work

Introduction

Social work is the name of applied science, which since the 1990s as a generic term and collection of traditional disciplines Social Education and Social Work needed. Social work is also the name of the corresponding group trades as well as the scientific discipline.

Since 2001, Social Work in Australia, officially recognized as a specialized science, while in many other European and non European countries (particularly USA) has over many decades as an independent scientific discipline applies and numerous chairs and research projects has. Social work is a profession that tries to sound science to solve practical social problems, to alleviate or prevent, as it is the responsibility of other professions, practical biological (medical) or psychological problems (psychiatry, psychotherapy to solve). Your in-depth scientific knowledge is changing social work from the Social Work Science (discipline). This in turn generates about her disciplinary research knowledge (Vincent, 2008). In addition to this epistemological view Social Work may also functional as a form of practiced social policies understood. In the international context in 2000 in Montreal, proposed by the International Social Work Association, the International Federation of Social Workers (IFSW), and the following definition:

"The social work profession promotes social change, problem solving in human relationships and empowerment and liberation of people to enhance well-being. Utilizing theories of human behavior and social systems, social work Intervenes at the points where people interact with their environments. Principles of human rights and social justice are fundamental to social work. "

"The social work profession promotes social change, problem solving in human relationships and empowerment and liberation of people to raise their well-being. Utilizing theories of human behavior and social systems, social work intervenes at the points where people interact with their environment. Principles of human rights and social justice are fundamental to social work " (Marson, 2005)

Discussion

As part of the ongoing development of the social work profession and to the independent joint action of the system less and less clearly distinguishable sub-basin, the tradition has long occupied a generic term social work emerged. Similarly, the academic programs are increasingly in terms of Social Work and Social Welfare called. The finest distinction between social pedagogy and social work was basically the fact that the Social acted, offered and initiated. The social work response, intervened when prompted, intervened, and was administrative action if a grievance has been reported. Sometimes an attempt made by a working definition of the other work to subordinate or to dissipate (Darity, 2008). Newer approaches are now using social work as a generic term for both, equal, and labor areas. In addition to social work understood as separate from other professions to act definable scientific rules of action a founding intervention system.

Methods of Social Work

Social work is about through education, training, assistance and welfare-state intervention, the autonomy of individuals in the everyday way of life to strengthen, restore and secure. Since the ability, of an individual in social and civic life not trained to participate in all the same, is also the task of social work to social inequalities reduce. Subject of social work is generally socially and professionally respected as relevant ...