Profilaktyka i działania profilaktyczne w teorii pracy socjalnej

The purpose of social work is to solve already existing social problems and take preventive measures. The term ‘social prevention’, like ‘social work’, has two basic meanings. First, it means all activities that do not create problems that require intervention by social assistance institutions; secondly, the field of science (discipline within sociology), the subject of which is these activities, and the goal of finding optimal methods and techniques to prevent the emergence of social pathologies.