SOCIAL WORK

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does social work mean? 

• SOCIAL WORK (noun)
  The noun SOCIAL WORK has 1 sense:

1. any of various services designed to aid the poor and aged and to increase the welfare of children

  Familiarity information: SOCIAL WORK used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SOCIAL WORK (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any of various services designed to aid the poor and aged and to increase the welfare of children

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("social work" is a kind of...):

social service; welfare work (an organized activity to improve the condition of disadvantaged people in society)

 Context examples 

A doctoral degree for experienced social work practitioners in advanced practice, research and/or policy analysis (although some DSW recipients are not social workers).

(Doctor of Social Work, NCI Thesaurus)

A social worker usually has a master's degree in social work and has studied sociology, growth and development, mental health theory and practice, human behavior/social environment, psychology, and research methods, and is licensed to practice by a state authority.

(Licensed Clinical Social Worker, NCI Thesaurus)

Places may also be sites that are investigated in the context of health care, social work, public health administration (e.g., buildings, picnic grounds, day care centers, prisons, counties, states, and other focuses of epidemiological events).

(Place, NCI Thesaurus/BRIDG)

The degree typically leads to teaching, research, leadership roles in agencies, or self-employed social work practice.

(Doctor of Social Work, NCI Thesaurus)