THEORY OF SOCIAL WORK

The monograph highlights the genesis, morphology and functional capacity of
social work as a natural phenomenon. The origin, nature, content, morphological and
procedural forms of social work are grounded consistently. The activity-nature of the
phenomenon is demonstrated, the basic law of the social work self-development is
formulated, the heuristic models of social work and social institution is presented, the
risk factors for the social work development process by means of the state and civil
society authorities are defined, the decision-making algorithms for solution of the crisis
human problems and the problems of the social institution management are provided,
the general types of self-regulation mechanisms: archetypal, regulatory and informationsigns
are highlighted.
It is recommended for use of researchers, doctoral candidates, master’s degree
graduates, bachelors, executives of social institutions, practitioners and volunteers
working in the field of social work and for all those who are interested in these issues
of design, construction, modernization and optimization of social systems.