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Social Work is the professional activity of helping individuals, groups, or communities enhance or restore their capacity for social functioning and creating societal conditions favorable to this goal. Social Work practice consists of the professional application of Social Work values, principles, and techniques to one or more of the following ends: helping people obtain tangible services; counseling and psychotherapy with individuals, families, and groups; helping communities or groups provide or improve processes. The practice of Social Work requires knowledge of human development and behavior; of social, economic, and cultural institutions; and of the interactions of all these factors. (National Association of Social Workers)
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  7. Performing 'initial assessment' : identifying the latent conditions for error at the front-door of local authority children’s services.
    K Broadhurst, D Wastell, S White, C Hall, S Peckover, K Thompson, et al. in British Journal of Social Work (2010)
    This article draws attention to the faulty design elements at the front-door of children's local authority services, arguing that current attempts to increase safety, through the formalization of organizational procedures and their enactment by IT…
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  11. The Descriptive Tyranny of the Common Assessment Framework: Technologies of Categorization and Professional Practice in Child Welfare.
    Susan White, Christopher Hall, Sue Peckover in British Journal of Social Work (2008)
    The Common Assessment Framework is a standard assessment tool to be used by all professionals working with children for assessment and referral. The CAF is hailed as a needs-led, evidence-based tool which will promote uniformity, ensure appropriate…
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  15. Social Work
    T Ferguson in British medical journal (1942)
    (from the chapter) social work brings certain values, knowledge and skills to interdisciplinary practice the concepts of normalization and individual and family-centered practice which are central to the standards of best practice with persons with…
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  1. Habibullah S.Sos
    Habibullah S.Sos
    Researcher (at a non-Academic Institution)
    Research and Development Center for Social Welfare, Ministry of Social Affair Goverment of Indonesian
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