The Social Work Profession Identification Study

In the late eighty’s of the20th century China social work education to startrebuilding, get rapid development of social work. In recent years, along with relevantgovernment policy and the increased specialization, promoted the social workprofessional direction to speed up the transition process.Along with the economic system, social management system and the continuousdeepening of the reform of social welfare system, functional differentiation of varioussocial organizations, social functions by the government and the enterprises andinstitutions used to be spun off to return to society and community, professionalizationand specialization of social work at the same time the objective demand of began tobe made explicit. Social work produced in capitalist countries such as America andBritain, was established in1987in Peking University in China’s first professionalsocial work. Since then, as an emerging social work professional development step bystep, so is the related theory of education and research development, the nationalvarious universities each year nearly ten thousand training professional social worktalents for the society, but the current social work development in mainland and facingits own difficulties and challenges, the government cannot effectively purchase to thesocial work service, which directly affect the professionalization of social work.Inland areas in addition to Guangdong, Shenzhen, professional development isrelatively mature, as the professionalization of social work in northeast China is verybackward.Social work professionalization theory based on the summary and thecomparison of northeast China and Hong Kong and Shenzhen area gap, throughinvestigation and study, in Changchun city as an example the thorough analysis ofsocial work professional identity problem, proposed that the current social workdevelopment faced in the process of social work professional role is not clear, theoryresearch and practice, lack of localization features of the system and the separation oftraditional administrative system of the thinking inertia of seven aspects, such as theconstraints of problem is a major cause of lead to social identity dilemma, to solvethese problems, based on the experience of the foreign and Hong Kong, put forwardthe corresponding countermeasures and Suggestions.This article through to China’s national conditions and foreign related theoryresearch, coupled with professional development in actual situation, deepening theprofessionalization of social work identity research. Looking forward to change theemployment of social work graduates embarrassment; Expect social work to better theimplementation of social management and social service functions, implementation ofthe coordination of social relations, and promote social order toward the gooddirection, to better achieve social stability and harmonious.