Социальный работник молодая профессия, которая быстро развивается и охватывает новые сферы жизни. В связи с развитием общества, появлением новых реалий потребность в социальных работниках постоянно растет

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   What period of history does a social work date back?
   
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   What strands did the social work grow?
   
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   Where do the roots of social work stem from? Provide examples.
   
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   What happened in the 19^th century?
   
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   What changed in the 20^th and 21^st centuries?
   

The first professional medical social workers in England were called hospital almoners, or “lady almoners,” and were based in medical institutions. In 1895, Mary Stewart became the first lady almoner in Britain. (It wasn’t until the 1960s that the profession was officially renamed “medical social work.”)

In America, a young medical student, Jane Addams, established the settlement movement in the U.S. This reformist social movement, spanning from the 1880s through to the 1920s in England and the U.S., had the goal of seeing rich and poor live together in a more integrated society. She co-founded America’s first settlement house, Hull-House, which opened its doors to recently arrived European immigrants in 1889 in Chicago’s West Side. On a related note, Addams’ observations about the effects of war on social progress also led her to become a world peace advocate, and in 1931, she won a Nobel Peace Prize for her leadership in this field.

Other early social work pioneers include sociologist and workers’ rights advocate Frances Perkins. As Franklin D. Roosevelt’s Secretary of Labor, Perkins was instrumental in drafting the New Deal legislation in the 1940s.

Whitney M. Young, Jr. was one of the nation’s early civil rights trailblazers. His commitment to social justice attracted him to social work and he became president of the National Association of Social Workers (NASW) in the late 1960s. An expert in American race relations, Young was a key inspiration for President Johnson’s War on Poverty.

Other influential early social workers include Dorothy Height (civil rights and women’s rights activist); Jeanette Rankin (the first woman elected to U.S. Congress and a lifelong pacifist); Harry Hopkins (Works Progress Administration); and Edward Thomas Devine (economist turned housing reform advocate).