Social work is a professional and academic discipline that seeks to improve the quality of life and well being of an individual, group, or community by intervening through research, policy, crisis intervention, community organizing, direct practice, and teaching on behalf of those afflicted with poverty or any real or perceived social injustices and violations of their civil liberties and human rights.
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HSC Syllabus of Social Work Session 2013-14
HSC Syllabus of Social Work Session 2013-14
HSC Syllabus of Social Work Session 2013-14
HSC Syllabus of Social Work Session 2013-14
HSC Syllabus of Social Work Session 2013-14
HSC Syllabus of Social Work Session 2013-14
HSC Syllabus of Social Work Session 2013-14
Research is often focused on areas such as human development, social policy, public administration, psychotherapy, counseling, program evaluation, and international and community development. Social workers are organized into local, national, continental and international professional bodies. Social work, an interdisciplinary field, includes theories from economics, education, sociology, law, medicine, philosophy, politics, anthropology, and psychology.
Whereas social casework started on a more scientific footing aimed at controlling and reforming individuals (at one stage supporting the notion that poverty was a disease), other models of social work arising out of the Settlement House movement and activists such as Jane Addams, have always emphasized activism and community level solutions. Currently social work is known for its critical and holistic approach to understanding and intervening in social problems. This has led, for example, to the recognizing of poverty as having a social and economic basis rooted in social policy choices rather than as a moral defect. This also points to another historical development in the evolution of social work: once a profession engaged more in social control, it has become one more directed at social and personal empowerment. That is not to say that modern social workers do not engage in social control (consider, for example, child protection workers), and many, if not most, social workers would likely agree that this is an ongoing tension and debate in the profession. For example, see the debate between the structural social work and humanistic social work.[1]<need to add references to Jane Addams and more sources on history of the profession
