Employment of Social Workers in the Public Sector: Current Situation, Challenges and Future Prospects
In Turkey, social workers have been working mainly in public sector. However, in the last years, there has been a significant decrease in their employment rates. However, in the last years, there has been a significant decrease in their employment rates. Factors that emerged during the period of un...
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In Turkey, social workers have been working mainly in public sector. However, in the last years, there has been a significant decrease in their employment rates. However, in the last years, there has been a significant decrease in their employment rates. Factors that emerged during the period of uncontrolled growth in social work education such as mushrooming, lacking the standards, explosion in the number of graduates, and decline in the quality of education have been effective in the decline in employment. Apart from these, low levels of professionalization, recognition of other professions, lack of initiative and self-confidence, lack of recognition, and ongoing neoliberalist policies have also played a role in the contraction of employment in the public sector. In order to address the employment issue, there is a need for new and regulatory mechanisms to be put in place in the social work profession and education, which will be built with a common sense that is critically filtered. Social workers should boldly appear in areas that have not yet been officially defined such as school social work, industrial social work, international social work, and take active roles in advocacy, public opinion formation and lobbying activities to address the issue.
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| spelling | doaj-art-52c1111119d84c1d94b8e25c0d60543f2025-01-20T09:37:04ZengSocial Workers in IndiaJournal of Social Work Education and Practice2456-20682025-01-01101Employment of Social Workers in the Public Sector: Current Situation, Challenges and Future Prospectskamil Alptekinhttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-2306-2955Selami Topuz0https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7204-3497Murat Öz1https://orcid.org/0009-0007-0142-1009Ankara Yıldırım Beyazıt University Institute of Social Sciences, Policy Doctorate ProgrammeAnkara University Institute of Health Sciences, Social Work Doctorate Programme In Turkey, social workers have been working mainly in public sector. However, in the last years, there has been a significant decrease in their employment rates. However, in the last years, there has been a significant decrease in their employment rates. Factors that emerged during the period of uncontrolled growth in social work education such as mushrooming, lacking the standards, explosion in the number of graduates, and decline in the quality of education have been effective in the decline in employment. Apart from these, low levels of professionalization, recognition of other professions, lack of initiative and self-confidence, lack of recognition, and ongoing neoliberalist policies have also played a role in the contraction of employment in the public sector. In order to address the employment issue, there is a need for new and regulatory mechanisms to be put in place in the social work profession and education, which will be built with a common sense that is critically filtered. Social workers should boldly appear in areas that have not yet been officially defined such as school social work, industrial social work, international social work, and take active roles in advocacy, public opinion formation and lobbying activities to address the issue. http://jswep.in/index.php/jswep/article/view/343Social work educationsocial work employmentpublic sectorTurkey |
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| title | Employment of Social Workers in the Public Sector: Current Situation, Challenges and Future Prospects |
| title_full | Employment of Social Workers in the Public Sector: Current Situation, Challenges and Future Prospects |
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| title_short | Employment of Social Workers in the Public Sector: Current Situation, Challenges and Future Prospects |
| title_sort | employment of social workers in the public sector current situation challenges and future prospects |
| topic | Social work education social work employment public sector Turkey |
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