SPECIFICS OF REALIZATION OF SOCIAL WORKER’S FUNCTIONS IN HIS WORK WITH FAMILY IN THE USA
This article deals with the problem of social and pedagogical work with family in the USA. The main functions of the social worker realized in his professional activity are identified. The content of the social work in every stage of “intervention” in family system are analyzed. Such term as “social diagnosis”, principles of diagnostics in the social work are defined. It is revealed that the diagnostics is the process and the result of the social work with the client at the same time. Its distinctive feature is the involvement of the client in the process of diagnostics. It means to keep the client informed of all actions, all process of data collection and the results of diagnostics procedures. The phases of the communication of the social worker with the family: are enumerated and characterized. Special attention is paid to the pedagogical function of the social work. On the base of the research the author describes the priority areas of social activity with the family in the USA and conclude that social work with family contains the rich pedagogical potential.