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Roluri și responsabilități ale asistentului social implicat în protecția copilului
Roles and Responsibilities of the Social Worker Involved in Child Care

Author(s): Maria Belea
Subject(s): School education, Social psychology and group interaction
Published by: Editura U. T. Press
Keywords: social assistance; social worker; responsibilities; skills; child protection;

Summary/Abstract: The present paper brings in front the roles and responsibilities of the social worker, who works in the institutions and public or private bodies, with duties in minors’ protection. The social worker has the duty to prevent, to inform, to guide and to solve a big part of the issues that the people of different ages and social conditions are facing. So, besides the theoretical and practical specialized training, the social worker has to have a set of qualities, aptitudes and skills, in order to support the beneficiaries (in this present case the children and their families) to overcome the limit situations they are facing. Starting from the ethical and legislative principles which are at the base of the organization of the social assistance system, there have been set a series of responsibilities and qualities of the social worker involved in actions of preventing and intervention in child care, aspects which will be dealt with in the following pages.

  • Issue Year: XXIX/2020
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 223-231
  • Page Count: 9
  • Language: Romanian