About

The social work profession promotes social change, problem solving in human relationships and the empowerment and liberation of individuals, families, groups and communities to enhance well-being. Utilising theories of human behaviour and social systems, social work intervenes at the points where people interact with their environments. Principles of human rights and social justice are fundamental to social work (IASSW, 2001; IFSW, 2001).

Social worker is the member of social work profession who performs interventions with the help of methods and techniques peculiar to social work by utilizing theories of human behavior and social systems towards enhancing problem solving and coping capacities of the individual, family and society and generating, remedying, protecting and developing the pscho-social functionality; while providing planning and application for the aim of meeting people’s needs via social policy and programs.  

The Department of Social Work in Turkey is a discipline whose foundations were laid in Hacettepe in the 1950s, and it has started to develop in other universities since 2006, and its numbers have gradually increased in various universities after 2010.

Fırat University Department of Social Work was established in 2013 and started accepting students as of the 2016-2017 academic year. It currently continues its education and training activities with 7 faculty members, 1 research assistants and approximately 300 undergraduate students.