CONCEPTUAL APPARATUS OF THE ANALYSIS OF THE FORMATION SYSTEM OF SOCIAL WORK WITH AUTISTIC CHILDREN

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The article actualises the problem of significant differences between researchers, in relation to understanding the basic concepts of social work, which is very important in finding directions for the formation system of social work with autistic children. The paper is aimed to analyse content of the concepts of «social work», «autistic children», «system of social work», «the formation of a system of social work». Methods used: comparison, analysis, synthesis and generalisation made to isolate and refine the conceptual framework of research, its significance and justification of study the formation of social work with autistic children. The results of the study of the conceptual analysis the formation system of social work with children-autists provide the opportunity to determine the following points: Firstly, social work with autistic children – is a specific professional activities for autistic children and their entourage, which makes it possible to participate in social life and conducting appropriate institutional changes for this at all levels of society. Secondly, the specifics of autistic children as objects of social work is that they are tightly connected with their own parents together being in the center of a crisis social situation. Accordingly, they must together receive support in seeking ways out of the state of social exclusion. Thirdly, the formulated working concept of «the formation of a system of social work with autistic children» makes it possible to determine the perspective directions of our further research of those regular relationships that provide the formation and development of systemic social work with autistic children and their social environment. First of all, it is an issue of relationship between the micro, meso- and macro levels of the social environment of the autistic child. An analysis of the ways of reproduction this relationship at different stages of the formation system of social work with autistic children creates a prospect for further research by the author.