Notes for Reflection on Social Work Professional Practices

Abstract

This paper is both part and the result of the theoretical referent of the current research on “Significant Practices of Social Work Professionals: The case of La Salle University’s alumni in Colombia”. This article has three parts: The first poses the importance of assuming professional intervention as the object of knowledge in order to find a better solution to social problems, and to contribute to the theoretical-methodological development of social work; the second part specifies the concept of practice as a basic input for understanding intervention as a situated experience, and the third part gives an account, supported by arguments, of the many characteristics that constitute professional intervention as a social practice, giving it meaning and specificity.