Abstract:
In contemporary society, social assistance is seen as a complex, multidisciplinary and highly specialized activity. The profession of social worker evaluates very quickly in the last period, starting from assisting the person in difficulty with classic means of material, psychological and social order to active social policies to ensure rights and prevent social problems, assisting individuals, groups and communities temporarily in crisis. The social worker has an essential role in applying effective solutions for the integration of vulnerable people and groups into community life for social inclusion purposes. At the moment, among the traditional areas of intervention we mention: social assistance in poverty, intervention and assistance prevention focused on the child's well-being (family integration/reintegration, adoption and family placement, residential care), family social assistance (counseling, education, planning), a elderly people, people with disabilities, social assistance for poor people, etc. In the practice of social assistance, we encounter both traditional areas of intervention and modern areas, and the social issues that have arisen over time have required the emergence of new objectives and methodologies for the training of highly qualified specialists. We can indicate several social sectors in which the presence of the social worker is absolutely necessary: the social protection sector, public administration (town halls, local councils), the health sector (hospitals, polyclinics, dispensaries), the justice system (probation service), non-governmental organizations , the educational sector (schools, high schools).
