Social work sounds good, so what is it?

In Baidu Encyclopedia, social work is a subject with the government as the main body and social forces widely participating. It takes social work, sociology and psychology as the main disciplines, auxiliary disciplines such as property management, medicine and law as the core concept to help people help themselves, and case work, group work and community work as the direct working methods.

It aims to provide professional services to customers, help them solve various problems in the process of interacting with the environment, help them rebuild their self-confidence, help them solve difficulties and reintegrate into society.

Social work is to help people solve social and environmental problems. Help the poor, the old, the weak, the disabled and other socially disadvantaged groups; Prevent and solve social problems caused by various bad communication; Carry out community service, improve social functions, improve social welfare level and quality of social life, realize the benign interaction between individuals and society, and promote social stability and development.

The Decision of the Central Committee on Several Major Issues of Building a Harmonious Socialist Society adopted by the Sixth Plenary Session of the 16th CPC Central Committee puts forward the urgent task of promoting the development of social work. Building a harmonious socialist society is inseparable from the strong support of social workers.

Social workers are professionals who aim at helping others and use professional knowledge and methods to carry out social services such as difficult relief, contradiction mediation, rights protection, psychological counseling and behavior correction. They play a unique role in coordinating social relations, preventing and solving social problems and promoting social justice, and are an important force in modern social management and service.

In developed countries, social work has a history of hundreds of years. Social workers are not only numerous, but also generally receive good vocational education. At present, China has entered a critical period of reform and development, and profound changes have taken place in the economic system, social structure, interest pattern and ideology. This unprecedented social change has injected great vitality into China's economic and social development, but it has also brought some new problems. Various social contradictions are prominent, and a large number of social problems have emerged. There is an urgent need for a large number of social workers to help the party and the government solve problems. Strengthening social management and improving the level of social services has become an urgent task for social workers in higher vocational colleges.