Зміст науково-теоретичної підготовки соціальних працівників до роботи з вразливими категоріями населення

Abstract

The article theoretically substantiates and develops the content of scientific and theoretical training of social workers to work with vulnerable categories of the population. It has been established that scientific and theoretical training is one of the components of the professional training of social workers, which is defined as a purposeful process and the result of forming the willingness of future specialists for professional activity, aimed at mastering a set of value orientations, scientific and theoretical knowledge, operational and practical abilities and skills, individual and personal qualities necessary for successful performance of professional tasks in the field of social work. It has been found that the content of the scientific and theoretical training of social workers to work with vulnerable categories of the population is aimed at mastering modern knowledge and technologies for working with them and includes the following aspects: knowledge of methodological approaches, theories, concepts, conceptual and terminological apparatus of social work with vulnerable categories of the population; knowledge of the principles of social policy in working with vulnerable categories of the population and the specifics of providing social services; understanding the essence and classification of vulnerable categories of the population, difficult life circumstances; knowledge of the directions and content of social work with vulnerable categories of the population; knowledge of technologies of scientific and theoretical forecasting, designing, modelling of social work with vulnerable categories of the population; knowledge of technologies, methods and forms of social work with vulnerable categories of the population; knowledge of the domestic system of social protection, etc.