Abstract
The main objective of the article is to present the development of social work in Lithuania. The conception of social work and the social work definition problems are discussed in the first part. The absence of general social work theory and multfifunctionality of social work practice are obstacles for the unified conception of social work. The development of social work profession is discussed in the second part of the article. The roots of social work are the pseudoaltruistic behavior of animals and the proper altruistic behavior of hominids. There are eight stages of social work development in Lithuania according to author: GDL and the Union with Poland, period of Tsarist occupation, interwar independence, Models of Soviet social security, Formal acceptance of the notion of social work, professionalisation of social work, professional social work, social euro-integration. The contextual factors of social work in Lithuania are discussed in the third part of the article. The main contextual factors of social work are: socio-economical situation, legislative basis, international context, social service givers. The research in social work and the future development of social work discipline in Lithuania is discussed in the last part.
Highlights
Several years ago the reaction of work or social worker became common
The a professional to such word combinations as social work or social worker was awkward but often negative: What a strange word combination! Is it necessary to make references to work when naming a profession? Maybe such notions of recent past as party work, party worker or trade union worker accounted for the negative attitude work? What do social workers do? Is it science or art?
The same list of problems we offered to social workers (600 respondents – in 1997; 150 respondents – in 1999)
Summary
Several years ago the reaction of work or social worker became common. They no an ordinary Lithuanian citizen, politician or even longer jar on anybody’s ears. The majority of sciences have developed from philosophy. They have scientific names, usually of Latin or Greek origin. Almost 10 human life practice, social work encounters years passed, and the concepts, such as social many difficulties in its fight for an academic (especially scientific) status. Any area of knowledge of practical descent has to wander about the fortress of science for a certain period of time until it is recognised as both academic and scientific field of investigation. Social work is pushing ahead with some difficulty, though its expansion in past years has been really impressive
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