Socialinių darbuotojų profesinių kompetencijų tobulinimas tęstinių studijų metu

Abstract

Topic: improvement of social workers’ professional competencies during continuing studies.

Objective: to analyze improvement of social workers’ professional competencies during continuing studies.

Object: improvement of social workers’ professional competencies during continuing studies.

Hypothesis: during continuing social pedagogy studies at the universities, students improve their social workers’ and develop social pedagogues’ professional competencies.

Kew words: social worker, competence, professional competence, the improvement of professional competence, continuing studies, formal learning, formal professional training, qualification.

Social work is the activity to provide help to people, who need that help and who are not able to deal with their problems and life difficulties without the help of others. Social work as the practical activity has relatively good juridical basis, created provision of social services and infrastructure of social work, profession is quite popular.

Social worker is seeking the social justice and positive changes in the society, the social welfare increase, bigger responsibility from citizens and government, support of individual, family and community solving social problems and pursuing prevention.

Social work reflects the needs and problems of communities, people with the common interests groups and individuals

Social work trend’s education is acquired after further education studies or basic also integral social work studies in