SOCIAL WORKERS

UNDERSTANDING SOCIAL WORKERS

1. Max Siporin: Social Work is a method of social institutions to help people prevent and solve their problems and to improve and enhance social functioning.

2. Allan Pincus: social work concerned with the problems of the interaction between people with the social environment, so that they are able to carry out tugas2 life, reduce stress, achieve their aspirations and value2.

3. Walter A. Friedlander: Social work is a professional service practice based on the knowledge and skills about human relationships that can help individuals, groups and communities to achieve personal satisfaction and social.

4. Charles Zastrow: professional activities to help individuals, groups and communities to enhance or improve their ability to function socially and to create community conditions that enable them to achieve the goal.

5. Rex Skidmore: Social work aims to improve social functioning either individually or in a group, where the activity is focused on their social relations, particularly the interactions between humans and their environment.

6. Serafika Leonora de Guzman: Social work is a profession that primarily been in the field of social service activities are organized, where the project was to provide facilities and strengthen relationships, particularly in mutual adjustment and mutual benefit between individuals and their social environment through the use of methods social work.