Concept information
Preferred term
social work
Definition
- SOCIAL WORKERS apply specialized knowledge and skills, guided by professional values, to help individuals, groups, and communities enhance or restore capacity for functioning and to create environmental conditions conducive to this goal. Social workers help at all levels of society, from the individual level (including families), to the community or mezzo level, to the societal or macro level. [Source: Encyclopedia of World Poverty; Social Work]
Broader concept
Narrower concepts
- approved social workers
- behavioral social work
- casework
- child care workers
- community work
- court liaison officers
- detached social work
- educational welfare officers
- education social workers
- field workers
- forensic social work
- general practice social work
- generic social workers
- intermediate treatment officers
- macro social work
- medical social work
- mental health social work
- non professional social workers
- peripatetic social workers
- play leaders
- police social work
- preventive social work
- prison welfare officers
- private social work
- probation officers
- professional social workers
- psychiatric social work
- radical social work
- residential social work
- school social workers
- social worker teams
- social work keyworkers
- social work practice
- social work profession
- social work waiting lists
- supportive social work
- therapeutic social work
- unitary social work
- voluntary social work
- voluntary worker organizers
- welfare rights officers
- youth court reporters
- youth work
Belongs to group
URI
https://concepts.sagepub.com/social-science/concept/social_work
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