Definitions for social work
so·cial work

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:2.0 / 1 vote

1. social worknoun

   any of various services designed to aid the poor and aged and to increase the welfare of children

WiktionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. social worknoun

   Any of several professions concerned with providing social services to those members of the community that need it.

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1. Social work

   Social work is an academic discipline and practice-based profession concerned with meeting the basic needs of individuals, families, groups, communities, and society as a whole to enhance their individual and collective well-being. Social work practice draws from areas, such as psychology, sociology, health, political science, community development, law, and economics to engage with systems and policies, conduct assessments, develop interventions, and enhance social functioning and responsibility. The ultimate goal of social work is the improvement of people's lives and the achievement of social justice. Social work practice is often divided into three levels. Micro-work involves working directly with individuals and families, such as providing individual counseling/therapy or assisting a family in accessing services. Mezzo-work involves working with groups and communities, such as conducting group therapy or providing services for community agencies. Macro-work involves fostering change on a larger scale through advocacy, social policy, research development, non-profit and public service administration, or working with government agencies. Starting in the 1980s, a few universities began social work management programmes, to prepare students for the management of social and human service organizations, in addition to classical social work education.The social work profession developed in the 19th century, with some of its roots in voluntary philanthropy and in grassroots organizing. However, responses to social needs had existed long before then, primarily from public almshouses, private charities and religious organizations. The effects of the Industrial Revolution and of the Great Depression of the 1930s placed pressure on social work to become a more defined discipline as social workers responded to the child welfare concerns related to widespread poverty and reliance on child labor in industrial settings.

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1. social work

   Social work is a professional field that focuses on helping individuals, families, groups, and communities to enhance their well-being and address their social challenges. It involves understanding and applying social theories to design interventions, provide support, foster social change, promote social justice, and protect human rights. Social work can commonly involve working with issues such as poverty, discrimination, abuse, addiction, physical illness, mental health, disability, and inequality.

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1. Social work

   Social work is a professional and academic discipline that seeks to improve the quality of life and wellbeing of an individual, group, or community by intervening through research, policy, community organizing, direct practice, and teaching on behalf of those afflicted with poverty or any real or perceived social injustices and violations of their human rights. Research is often focused on areas such as human development, social policy, public administration, psychotherapy, 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, medicine, philosophy, politics, anthropology, and psychology.

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1. Social Work

   The use of community resources, individual case work, or group work to promote the adaptive capacities of individuals in relation to their social and economic environments. It includes social service agencies.

Matched Categories

1. • Welfare Work

How to pronounce social work?

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   Mark

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   Daniel

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   Libby

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   Mia

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   Karen

   Australian

   Hayley

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   Veena

   Indian

   Priya

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   Neerja

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   Zira

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   Oliver

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of social work in Chaldean Numerology is: 8

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of social work in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9

Examples of social work in a Sentence

1. Eitan Perry:

   We are the only club in Israel who has a clause in the contract of the players that they have to do a certain number of social work projects, the training sessions, they're brilliant for the kids. They get to work with the players and then on matchday they get to watch them in action, some will hold their hands when they walk out onto the pitch.

2. Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi:

   My work in the Rajya Sabha( upper house of parliament) is over, but my political and social work will never be over.

3. Edo Banach:

   It is difficult to hear that someone is discontinuing treatment and a wave of sadness is going over Facebook, but hospice is not giving up, the reality is, people who chose hospice often live longer, and it's more of a holistic kind of care that provides social work and chaplaincy and support for the family and all those additional things that the hospital system doesn't really provide.

4. Mother Teresa:

   Without out suffering, our work would just be social work, very good and helpful, but it would not be the work of Jesus Christ, not part of the Redemption. All the desolation of the poor people, not only their material poverty, but their spiritual destitution, must be redeemed. And we must share it, for only by being one with them can we redeem them by bringing God into their lives and bringing them to God.

5. Chatree Pensomboon:

   I look at this as a kind of social work.

References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=social work
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Social_Work
3. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_Work
4. ^ ChatGPT
   https://chat.openai.com
5. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=social work