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.
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Social work profession developed in the 19th century, with some of its roots in voluntary philanthropy and in grassroots organizing.
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Social work is a broad profession that intersects with several disciplines.
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Social work is a practice-based profession and an academic discipline that promotes social change and development, social cohesion, and the empowerment and liberation of people.
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Underpinned by theories of social work, social sciences, humanities, and indigenous knowledge, social work engages people and structures to address life challenges and enhance well-being.
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Social work is a profession concerned with helping individuals, families, groups and communities to enhance their individual and collective well-being.
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Social work is concerned with individual and personal problems but with broader social issues such as poverty, unemployment, and domestic violence.
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The practice of social work requires knowledge of human development and behavior; of social and economic, and cultural institutions; and the interaction of all these factors.
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Practice and profession of social work has a relatively modern and scientific origin, and is generally considered to have developed out of three strands.
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Professional social work originated in 19th century England, and had its roots in the social and economic upheaval wrought by the Industrial Revolution, in particular, the societal struggle to deal with the resultant mass urban-based poverty and its related problems.
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The first social work training began at the University of Toronto in 1914.
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In 1966 by the recommendation Mental Health Advisory Committee, Ministry of Health, Government of India, NIMHANS commenced Department of Psychiatric Social Work started and a two-year Postgraduate Diploma in Psychiatric Social Work was introduced in 1968.
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Social work is an interdisciplinary profession, meaning it draws from a number of areas, such as psychology, sociology, politics, criminology, economics, ecology, education, health, law, philosophy, anthropology, and counseling, including psychotherapy.
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Field work is a distinctive attribution to social work pedagogy.
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Historic and defining feature of social work is the profession's focus on individual well-being in a social context and the well-being of society.
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The growth of "social work administration" for transforming social policies into services and directing activities of an organization toward achievement of goals is a related field.
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Financial social work helps clients with low-income or low to middle-income, people who are either unbanked or underbanked, with better mediation with financial institutions and induction of money management skills.
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Increasingly, graduates of social work programs pursue post-masters and post-doctoral studies, including training in psychotherapy.
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