2023 Henan Intermediate Social Work Examination was held in Zhumadian, Zhengzhou and Luoyang.

Social work is a professional activity that upholds altruistic values, is based on scientific knowledge, and uses scientific professional methods to help needy groups, solve their life difficulties, and help individuals better adapt to their social environment.

This definition points out that social work is essentially a professional activity to help others, which is characterized by providing scientific and effective services to people in need, especially those in need. 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.

Definition of representativeness

(1) Social work is a self-help activity. NASW National Association of Social Workers defines social work as a professional activity that helps individuals, groups and communities to strengthen or restore their abilities, thus giving full play to their social functions and creating social conditions conducive to achieving their goals.

(2) Social work is a professional helping process. Frilander (1980) emphasized in his book Introduction to Social Welfare that social work is a professional service and a process of helping others professionally.

(3) Social work is a professional method to help others. Liao, a scholar from Taiwan Province Province, quoted Fink's definition of social work in the book "Overview of Social Work" published by 1996: Social work is an art or discipline that enhances the interpersonal relationship and social life function of individuals and groups by providing professional services to help others.

(4) Social work is a major. Liao himself defined social work in the book "Outline of Social Work" as: social work is a special professional field in modern society, which uses scientific principles of social psychology to solve special problems in community life and reduce personal adversity and pressure.