Abstract
Social work is a profession having a history of about last six decades in the
country and yet Social Work Profession has not attained the status among
other professions like health, Judiciary and engineering. The present research
study explores the understanding of respondents about the Profession of
Social Work, and how they differentiate between Professional Social Work
and Voluntary Social Work. Furthermore the expectations of the respondents
regarding the professionalism, characteristics of a Social Worker for
Professional Social worker and voluntary social worker as well are recorded.
Through interviews primary data were collected. Our analysis shows that
mostly people know about the professional and voluntary difference
regardless of the specification of Social Work Profession but they consider
that Social Work is a need for the society as other contemporary professions
are
Abid Mehmood Ansari. (2016) PROFESSIONAL SOCIAL WORK: A RECOGNITION SEEKING PROFESSION IN PAKISTAN, Asia Pacific, Vol-34, Issue 1.
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