SOCIAL WORK AND GENDER VIOLENCE PREVENTION

In view of how serious the current gender violence situation is and of the increase of such violence in some groups as the adolescents, social work has a key role in gender violence early detection and prevention. Theoretical contributions are presented, as well as practices which support a community-based social work starting from a preventive socialization against gender violence. The need to train the future social workers in the main contributions of the international scientific community about gender violence early detection and prevention is also emphasized. This training will enable them to carry out, in the future, this community- based social work from the gender violence preventive socialization perspective.