Contemporary Social Work

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Identify a major contemporary social problem that is of concern to the profession of Social Work; State why in your opinion, it is a problem for the profession, and how you would intervene to ameliorate and /- or eradicate this problem.
Longevity in the field of Social Work comes with a huge price that is not achieved by the sheer desire to serve a particular population or group to gain self- fulfillment. A vastly changing society demands a more expandable public welfare Social Worker, so that the focus reaches far beyond meeting the individual’s point for service, but that is also validates the one entering into a system in which they are vulnerable. The stigma of dissociation that is tide to public welfare workers is in part a cause

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