Search results
- Social work is a systematic way of helping individuals and groups towards better adaptation to society. The social worker will work together with clients to develop their inner resources and he will mobilise, if necessary, outside facilities for assistance to bring about changes in the environment.
academic.oup.com/book/482/chapter/135253368What is social work? | Social Work: A Very Short Introduction ...
People also ask
What is Social Work Practice?
What are the bases of social work?
What are the principles of social work?
What is social work?
Is social work a political practice?
Does social work have a scientific perspective?
Mar 12, 2019 · When we explore the nature of social work, we need to identify and clarify the concept, content, context and construction of the meaning of social work practice locally and globally. Let us ask a simple but basic question: Why social work?
- Patrick O’Leary, Ming-sum Tsui
- 2019
The Nature of Social Work. No single, widely recognized, or generally While attentive to the past and present accepted statement exists of the aims functions and of social work, the statement purposes of the professional practice essays of so a projection of future functions in cial work.
Sep 9, 2019 · After conducting review and reflection over our observation and experience, the bases of social work practice can be summarized into four categories, namely, (1) relationship-based, (2) client-based, (3) evidence-based and (4) value-based.
- Patrick O’Leary, Ming-sum Tsui
- 2019
Social work practice responds to needs of individuals, families, groups, and communities and addresses barriers and injustices in organizations and society.
- Abstract
- Method
- Findings
- Discussion
- Acknowledgements
In recent years, social work theoretical discourse has seen a growing presence of voices that address the professional mission of promoting social justice as inclusive of elements beyond narrow humanity (Närhi & Matthies, 2016). Approaches echoed by such voices call for a deeper understanding of humankind’s reciprocal relationship with nature and t...
Sample of Statements
Four types of statements were analyzed for the preset effort. The first were statements associated with the Global Definition of Social Work (International Federation of Social Workers [IFSW] & International Association of Schools of Social Work [IASSW], 2014), made public and approved by the IFSW and the IASSW in 2014. The definition itself was analyzed as were its commentary notes, including notes pertaining to core mandates, principles, knowledge, and practice of the social work profession...
Data Collection
All of the materials that were collected are publicly accessible in full text online, and so no ethical approvals were needed to obtain them. They were collected in July 2020. Some of the statements underwent updating at the same time that data were being analyzed. In those cases, updated versions were reanalyzed and replaced the analysis of previous versions.
Data Analysis
The analysis was driven by a critical-interpretive approach (Denzin, 2009). Data were analyzed across three axes representing core aspects of ecological social work as presented in the literature review. The first axis relates to the relationship between micro and macro perspectives. The second deals with disciplinarity and inter- or transdisciplinarity. The third pertains to relations between humankind and nature or between people and their natural environments as reflected by ecocentrism or...
The outcomes of our analysis are displayed separately for each of the aforementioned axes. Despite possible overlaps between them, an effort was made to distinguish between the issues assembled under each axis such that nuances of the appearances cited and their categorization are observable. In the quoted passages, we have added italics for emphas...
The aim of the present effort was to identify and critically observe mentions of nature and the natural environment and/or the salience of an ecosocial discourse in a collection of core documents published by the social work profession’s leading and influential institutions. All in all, excluding some exceptions that are discussed separately, direc...
The authors would like to thank Mrs. Reut Aram-Fichman for her valued assistance in the preparation of this article.
What is social work, what makes it distinctive, and where do its boundaries lie? ‘What is social work’ provides a short definition: it is a community-based response to social need. Social workers spend their time trying to ease social suffering.
Feb 13, 2020 · Drawing on relational, systemic, and complexity theories, the paper shows how the nature of what social workers do and culture of practice are shaped by the interaction between available services, office designs, and practitioners', managers', and service users' experiences of relating together.
