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social work  

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  • SOCIAL WORKERS apply specialized knowledge and skills, guided by professional values, to help individuals, groups, and communities enhance or restore capacity for functioning and to create environmental conditions conducive to this goal. Social workers help at all levels of society, from the individual level (including families), to the community or mezzo level, to the societal or macro level. [Source: Encyclopedia of World Poverty; Social Work]

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http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/N9J-K66P69GS-T

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