Barnes Diane, Hugman Richard
School of Social Work, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Australia.
J Interprof Care. 2002 Aug;16(3):277-88. doi: 10.1080/13561820220146702.
Social work is concerned with enhancing the well-being of people within their social contexts. It is a broad profession with diverse practices. These range from a focus on the personal distress of individuals to the collective arrangements and social processes that influence the well-being of groups and communities. The unique contribution of social work to the caring professions is its broad contextualised approach to addressing human needs. Yet this breadth of scope also provides fertile ground for competing discourses within the profession. This paper provides an overview of the 'highly contested' nature of social work's goals, theories and methods of practice.
社会工作关注于在社会环境中提升人们的福祉。它是一个具有多样实践的广泛专业。这些实践范围从关注个人的个人困扰到影响群体和社区福祉的集体安排及社会进程。社会工作对关爱性专业的独特贡献在于其解决人类需求的广泛情境化方法。然而，这种广泛的范围也为该专业内相互竞争的话语提供了沃土。本文概述了社会工作目标、理论和实践方法的“高度争议性”本质。
