Annual of social work, Vol. 20 No. 1, 2013.
Review article
SOCIAL WORK – A CRISIS PROFESSION: IS IT TIME FOR THE CRISIS OF THE PROFESSION?
Mladen Knežević
; Department of Social work, Faculty of Law, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia
Abstract
Social work is a young profession, slightly over one hundred years old. The paper is an attempt to present some points in the profession development in the context of dramatic social circumstances usually called a crisis, through describing dramatic economic, but also political and military events and some social work development milestones in these periods. The paper presents the profession balancing between focus on individuals in the periods of social prosperity and addressing large social groups in dramatic crisis periods. The paper is not a historical review in the sense of historiographic research, but a practical attempt to establish a series of associations among individual levels of social work development and current social events at the given time.
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Keywords
social work; economic crisis; war conflicts; social work theory; social work practice
Hrčak ID:
104551
URI
Publication date:
3.6.2013.
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