Social work profession and social work education in Turkey

Social work schools were present since the beginning of the 20(th) century in the world, however, in Turkey, social work education was started in 1961. The first social work school, Hacettepe University, have existed as the only one providing social work education, until 2002. With the increasing need for the social workers in the country, the new schools/departments have established. In this study, development process of the social work profession and social work education in Turkey have elaborated critically together with the conditions of the newly constructed social work departments in recent years. (C) 2009 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserve