The Importance of Art in Social Work: The Role of Stories in the Reconstruction and Reinvention of Human Being
The Importance of Art in Social Work: The Role of Stories in the Reconstruction and Reinvention of Human Being

Summary/Abstract: The 3/2025 issue proposed a challenging and daring, always topical and interesting, dynamic and surprising theme for social specialists: the word and the importance of stories in social work alongside art and how it shapes the social world. The issue includes articles that bring to the forefront research and discussions about the importance of stories in the work of a social worker, about how art heals, restores or soothes, about how the word transforms and reinvents the vulnerabilities of our times.The importance of art in the work of a social worker has been, and always will be, animportant resource. Regardless of how it is used, art is a tool whose impact, positive and transformative, is always argued by both social workers and social service recipients,implicitly their families. Art brings freedom in social intervention, it brings change and personal development, it brings a perspective that classical methods of intervention aremore difficult to outline (Oliveira, Carvalho, 2024). However, using alternative methods in social practice requires both good training However, using alternative methods in social practice requires both good training of specialists and the openness of beneficiaries and their families (Patel, Soren, 2025).

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