Social Work

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This paper presents an in-depth study of the emerging field of professional social workers and focuses on every important aspect of this career choice. The paper outlines the different fields of social work and discusses the educational and personal requirements of social workers.

Table of Contents
Duties and Responsibilities
Positive features
Educational Requirements
Personal Qualities
Various Employment Settings
Child and family Welfare
Child Protective Services
Health Care Social Workers
Occupational Social Workers
Licensure
Salary
Job Prospects
Code of Ethics
Social Workers as Entrepreneurs
References

From the Paper:

"Social work has recently been gaining tremendous attention as a career option because there apparently is a serious dearth of qualified social work practitioners in our country. Apart from this reason, another important factor, which has contributed towards the involvement of social work as a profession, is connected with emerging branches of various fields, which require services of social workers. We need to understand that social work as a profession is not very old and therefore our conventional definition of this occupation may no longer be valid."

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