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General Information

Aim of the Program

The aim of the Social Service Department is to educate qualified social workers who can carry out the necessary services for families, societies, individuals who have social problems in various dimensions. The aim is to provide the educational development of the individuals who want to specialize the field theoretically and practically and who are sensitive to social problems. Those who graduate from the program are given the title of "social worker".

Target of the Program

Social service demonstrates the power of social policies in the prevention and resolution of social problems while enhancing or improving their competences for social functioning of individuals, families, groups and societies, and helping to improve social well-being and quality of life.

Career Opportunities

The Social Service Department implements an educational program to integrate the social sciences, social service methods and techniques and the field applications in the framework of professional responsibilities, to be successful at national and international level, to integrate the necessary information for social services and to provide services by assimilating professionals. Some of the employment and working areas of social service practitioners today are mentioned below. • Ministry of Family and Social Policy, Children's Houses, Love Houses, Children's Halls Adoption and foster family services • Official or private nursing homes • Official or special handicapped care and rehabilitation centers • Official or private kindergartens and day nurseries • Provincial and District Social Assistance and Solidarity Foundations • Orphanage Centers • Community Centers, Neighborhood Houses • Women's Shelters • Elderly Solidarity Centers • Children and Youth Center • Ergen Advisory Center • Hospitals • Ministry of National Education • Vocational Training Centers • Loan and Dormitories Institution • Ministry of Justice, Family and Juvenile Courts • Prisons • Children's Courts • Children's Education House • Forensic Medicine Institution • Universities • Hospitals • Children's branch offices of gendarmerie and police units • Family Counseling Centers • Local Authorities and affiliated units • Crisis centers • Red Crescent • United Nations Turkey • UNICEF Turkey representative • Refugees • Non-governmental organizations and foundations • Private Sector.

Future of the Department

According to the universally accepted definition of profession, Social Work is a practice-based professional and academic discipline that aims to systematically intervene in the injustices, inequalities and obstacles in the society in order to increase social welfare and improve the quality of life, based on human rights and social justice. Social work, such as human rights, social justice, social welfare, equality, respect for differences, in order to increase the well-being and welfare level of individuals at the micro level and the entire society at the macro level, primarily the disadvantaged individuals such as children, women, the elderly, the disabled and the poor. works with people, institutions and structures by developing interventions within the framework of certain principles. Considering the globalizing world and rapidly increasing social problems, the need for competent social workers will increase in order to solve these problems.
 

Who Should Choose

It is aimed that the students studying in the education programs of the Department of Social Work are raised as individuals who have internalized human rights, are sensitive to social events occurring at the national and international level, have a solution-oriented approach to social problems and can produce innovative solutions. It is a suitable career choice for students who think that their interests and talents are in these fields and want to improve their competencies in these fields.

Working Places

The Social Service Department implements an educational program to integrate the social sciences, social service methods and techniques and the field applications in the framework of professional responsibilities, to be successful at national and international level, to integrate the necessary information for social services and to provide services by assimilating professionals. Some of the employment and working areas of social service practitioners today are mentioned below. • Ministry of Family and Social Policy, Children's Houses, Love Houses, Children's Halls Adoption and foster family services • Official or private nursing homes • Official or special handicapped care and rehabilitation centers • Official or private kindergartens and day nurseries • Provincial and District Social Assistance and Solidarity Foundations • Orphanage Centers • Community Centers, Neighborhood Houses • Women's Shelters • Elderly Solidarity Centers • Children and Youth Center • Ergen Advisory Center • Hospitals • Ministry of National Education • Vocational Training Centers • Loan and Dormitories Institution • Ministry of Justice, Family and Juvenile Courts • Prisons • Children's Courts • Children's Education House • Forensic Medicine Institution • Universities • Hospitals • Children's branch offices of gendarmerie and police units • Family Counseling Centers • Local Authorities and affiliated units • Crisis centers • Red Crescent • United Nations Turkey • UNICEF Turkey representative • Refugees • Non-governmental organizations and foundations • Private Sector.

Programmes allowing Horizontal Transfer

Social Service, Sociology, psychology, anthropology, social psychology, political sciences.