Social Work

Definition: Social Work

Social Work

Noun

1. Any of various services designed to aid the poor and aged and to increase the welfare of children.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Health

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Social Work

Crosswords: Social Work

Books

• Careers in Social Work (2nd Edition) (reference)

• Days In The Lives Of Social Workers: 50 Professionals Tell "Real-Life" Stories From Social Work Practice (reference)

• Guide to Selecting and Applying to Master of Social Work Programs, Fourth Edition (reference)

• Qualitative Studies in Social Work Research (reference)

• The Social Work Dictionary (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• Smith College Studies In Social Work (reference)

• Administration In Social Work (reference)

• Advances In Social Work (reference)

• African Journal Of Social Work (reference)

• Cognitive Behavioural Social Work Review (reference)

  (more periodical examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Clinical Social Workers : Caring Assessing Facilitating / NIH Clinical Center Social Work Department. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Health

A non-Federal, nonadvocate, 12-member panel representing the fields of psychiatry, psychology, behavioral and social science, social work, and epidemiology. (references)

Playroom personnel are often trained professionals with backgrounds in psychology, special education, childhood development, social work, nursing, or recreational therapy. (references)

You may also consider borrowing a wig or hairpiece, rather than buying one. Check with the nurse or social work department at your hospital about resources for free wigs in your community. (references)

Children

Kyrgyz Republic

The lack of social workers or a well-established social work tradition means that cases involving abandoned or orphaned children are viewed typically as law enforcement matters. (references)

Bangladesh

The Center for Rehabilitation of the Paralyzed, a privately funded facility, provides both in-patient and out-patient medical services including physical therapy, occupational therapy, social work, counseling, and telemedicine for both children and adults with various physical disabilities. (references)

Grenada

The Social Welfare Division within the Ministry of Labor provides probationary and rehabilitative services to youths, day care services and social work programs to families, assistance to families wishing to adopt or provide foster care to children, and financial assistance to the six children's homes run by private organizations. (references)

Civil Liberties

China

In their speeches, the leaders praised the social work being done by numerous religious institutions and urged "mainstream" religious groups that are presently "underground" to register with the RAB. (references)

Venezuela

In a statement released on May 10, the Catholic Church expressed concerns for its autonomy and asserted that the Interreligious Parliament appeared to be an effort to centralize unduly the social work of the country's churches and religions. (references)

Tajikistan

The Minister of Justice has made public statements in support of NGO's (most of which are involved in social work, rather than political activity), and has attempted to address problems that existing NGO's have experienced with registration and taxation. (references)

Political Economy

Uk

The government has devolved significant powers to the Scottish Parliament, including responsibility for: agriculture, economic development, education, health, law and order, local government, social work, and transport. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Danish

socialt arbejde, socialrådgivning (social welfare), socialhjælp (social welfare), social bistand (social welfare), lokalt socialarbejde (community development, social service). (various references)

Dutch

sociale dienstverlening, sociaal werk, maatschappelijk werk (social assistance, social casework, social welfare), buurtwerk (community development, social service). (various references)

Finnish

sosiaalityö, sosiaaliapu (social welfare). (various references)

French

travail social, animation locale (social service), animation globale (social service), animation de zone (social service), aide sociale (social welfare), action sociale de quartier (social service), action sociale. (various references)

German

sozialarbeit (social welfare). (various references)

Greek 

κοινωνικές υπηρεσίες, κοινωνική πρόνοια (social welfare), κοινωνική εργασία στα πλαίσια μιας συνοικίας (community development, social service), κοινωνική εργασία (community service). (various references)

Hungarian

szociális teendők, szociális munka. (various references)

Italian

assistenza sociale (welfare). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

社会事業 . (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

しゃかいじぎょう. (various references)

Pig Latin

ocialsay orkway

Portuguese

trabalho social. (various references)

Russian 

работа в сфере социальных проблем. (various references)

Spanish

asistencia social (welfare). (various references)

Swedish

socialtjänst (social services), socialt bistånd (social welfare), socialt arbete (welfare work), social hjälp (social welfare). (various references)

Turkish

sosyal hizmet, toplum hizmeti. (various references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: oarlocks, rowlocks, warlocks, woolsack, wooralis.

-3 letters: arkosic, oarlock, ooralis, rowlock, warlock, woorali.

-4 letters: arioso, aswirl, caroli, carols, claros, cloaks, colors, corals, crawls, croaks, crooks, irokos, karoos, lorica, oorali, sailor, scoria, scrawl, social, sowcar, wackos, wracks, wricks.

-5 letters: arils, askoi, awols, calks, calos, carks, carls, carol, claro, claws, cloak, coals, coils, coirs, colas, color, cooks.

+1 letter: workaholics.

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