The history of social work and its importance in constructing an internationally accepted professional identity

Abstract

All professions are socially constructed and all of them are based on a set of scientific knowledge resulting from international dialogues; social work is no exception. However, we still have professional identity problems, one of which is ignorance, if not disdain for history itself. It is urgent to rediscover the pioneers and to advance consensus in order to build common identity elements and, if possible, as do other disciplines, to define a disciplinary object in which we all are reflected.