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Friday, November 25, 2011

What is 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 perceivedsocial injustices and violations of their human rights. Research is often focused on areas such as human development, social policy, public administration, program evaluation and international and community development. Social workers are organized into local, national, continental and internationalprofessional bodies. Social work, an interdisciplinary field, includes theories from economics, education, sociology, medicine, philosophy, politics,psychology.

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