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The Social Worker Social Work is any professional acti

Social Work is any professional activity aimed generally at enriching and enhancing individual and group development or at alleviating adverse social and economic conditions. Its practitioners work to provide care for abused or neglected children; rehabilitate the physically, mentally, or emotionally handicapped; and extend financial aid to the poor and the aged. Social workers also carry out treatment, counseling, and direct-service activities to help those individuals with mental and emotional disorders, to help rehabilitate those with disabilities, or to provide preventive services (Meyer, 1993, p. 14). This paper examines the heart of social work û which is the social worker himself or herself û and looks at one of the hardest problems that many social workers face, which is the shift from being an entry-level worker to that of being a supervisor.

Formerly, all forms of philanthropic and charitable activities, including those of untrained, civic-minded individuals, were regarded as social work. Within this context, there was little professionalization of the social worker and little attention to such professional as workplace hierarchy or career advancement. The activities of early social workers focused primarily on solving the immediate problems of the indigent and did little to change the conditions that caused those problems (Weissman et al., 1983, p. 21).

More recently, however, a vast amount of new social research has made possible analyses of the social and economic maladjustments of modern society. The activities of social workers have been coordinated in an effort to achieve the maximum possible benefit both for those individuals who are in need and for the entire community. With this shift in the strategy of social work has come about a shift in the way that social workers are organized. Often a very distinct line is drawn between the kind of work that one does when one first enters the profession (and usually ...

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