Dimensiunea ideologico-doctrinală a asistenţei sociale. Teoria, metoda şi practica asistenţei sociale contemporane – între modelul etic-religios şi modelul neoumanist
The Ideological-doctrinal Dimension of Social Work. The Theory, Method and Practice of Contemporary Social Work – Between the Ethical-religious Model and the Neohumanistic Model

Summary/Abstract: This article presents the results of a theoretical research, largely based on the study of the specialized literature and the consultation of the websites of some important social work organizations, with the main aim to identifying and highlighting the defining ideological-doctrinal characteristics of some of the most important contemporary models (methods) of social work, namely ethical-religious, critical-structuralist, and humanistic-existential. An important objective of the research consisted in circumscribing, ideological-doctrially, the specific way of representing the social problem and the client, but the greatest attention was paid to revealing the main ideological-doctrinal dimensions and features of certain constitutive and specific areas of the contemporary social work practice, namely the particularities of the objectives, values, methods and resources, also the roles, the qualities and the particularities of the social worker's activity. of evaluation and intervention. It has been pointed out, as well, with conclusive purpose, issues such as the way in which the three models of social work merge and combine at the level of the social worker’s activity, at the level of services and local and global systems of social work, as well as the identification of some contemporary ideological-doctrinal trends and perspectives. In this end, it is advanced the idea that, at least in the situation of the occidental societies, the tendency seems to be that of profiling of an ideological-doctrinal model of synthesis, integrative, transmodern, and neohumanistic of social work.

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