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Definition of Social work
1. Noun. Any of various services designed to aid the poor and aged and to increase the welfare of children.
Definition of Social work
1. Noun. Any of several professions concerned with providing social services to those members of the community that need it. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Medical Definition of Social work
1. The use of community resources, individual case work, or group work to promote the adaptive capacities of individuals in relation to their social and economic environments. It includes social service agencies. (12 Dec 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Social Work
Literary usage of Social work
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. What is Social Case Work?: An Introductory Description by Mary Ellen Richmond (1922)
"... THE FORMS OF social work AND THEIR INTERRELATIONS O AINTE-BEUVE tells of a
surgeon in the time of Louis XIV who once said to Chancellor ..."
2. Publication of the American Sociological Society by American Sociological Association (1917)
"Sociologists then recognized the data collected in social work as worthy of ...
Of the older periodicals of sociology and social work, the American Journal ..."
3. The Social Welfare Forum: Official Proceedings [of The] Annual Meeting by National Conference on Social Welfare, American Social Science Association (1921)
"Allen T. Burns, Director, Study of Methods o¡ Americanization, Carnegie Corporation,
New York The question of how much social work, or the social worker, ..."
4. Public Affairs Information Service Bulletin by Public Affairs Information Service (1920)
"New York school of social work. Alumni bulletin, 1920. ... Inst Q p 5-10 D 31 '19
Practical philosophy of social work: commencement address by Reverend John ..."
5. Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature by H.W. Wilson Company (1916)
"social work—Continued Study and teaching Social science school at Western reserve
university. School and Soc 3:383 Mr 11 '16 Social service training in Ohio ..."
6. The American Year Book: A Record of Events and Progress by Francis Graham Wickware, (, Albert Bushnell Hart, (, Simon Newton Dexter North, William M. Schuyler (1915)
"The year 1914 marked the close of the first quarter- century of this, perhaps
the youngest form of social work in America. Hull House, Chicago, and College ..."
7. The American Year Book by Simon Newton Dexter North, Francis Graham Wickware, Albert Bushnell Hart (1914)
"... to Jring about conferences of existing social work; and third, to lead to the
establishment of a federation school of social service and to organize ..."
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