SPECIFICITY OF SOCIAL WORK AS A KIND OF KNOWLEDGE
Methodological issues of the essential content of social work in modern conditions, when science has developed serious knowledge in this area, are becoming increasingly important. The author believes that it is fundamentally important at the current stage of development of social work, is the unity of its theory and practice, social activities and social knowledge. General scientific methodological foundations of the study of social work should be such traditional in social philosophy, sociology, social psychology and hermeneutics scientific approaches and principles as historicism, active inclusion of the individual in social communities; dialectical-materialistic principle of reflection, the principles of selectivity and complementarity, unity of consciousness and activity, social-historical and practical activity of human nature; activity principle and others. According to the author, the specificity of social work at the present stage of civilization development is its focus on the organization of individualized services to ensure psychosocial harmony of human existence in society. The impact and activities of social work, as an institution and part of society, should be directly directed to the activation of the client's internal resources. The author believes that the activities of the staff of social services and the institutions of social services alone, on a linear basis, is ineffective and uneconomical. We need an interdepartmental system of social services, the structural components of which are organically interconnected, like all human problems (psychological, medical, pedagogical, legal, economic, environmental).