Social work is essentially a professional activity to help others, which is characterized by providing scientific and effective services to people in need, especially the needy groups. Social work takes the needs of the recipients as the center and scientific helping skills as the means to achieve the effect of helping others.
Characteristics of social workers:
1, for the purpose of helping others (customers). Helping people in need is altruistic, not selfish, although social workers will also get socially recognized returns by providing services;
2. Activities based on scientific knowledge. The complexity of modern social problems makes it necessary to master a variety of scientific knowledge in order to provide effective services;
3. Scientific methods to help others. As a professional assistance activity in modern society, it needs effective scientific methods;
This is a help service activity. The starting point or goal is to help each other and those in need, not to manage and control each other.