Paradigma umanistă a asistenţei sociale sau scurtă introducere în asistenţa socială umanistă [Humanistic Paradigm of Social Work or Brief Introduction in Humanistic Social Work ]

Fundamental humanistic values and categories as human rights, social justice, human complexity, self-determination of person, personality, socio-human context, creativity and spirituality are, also, the values/principles, of contemporary social work theory and practice. The „humanistic social work” concept comes to organize, epistemological-methodological, into system, giving to theory and practice in social work both an unitary theoretical and methodological framework and a forum for debate and professional or scientific innovation. The article presents the essential resources of humanistic social work, personality and socio-human context, and philosophical and scientific sources of the concept, with emphasis on existentialism, humanistic psychology and sociology. Personal and socio-human development, participation, action, attachment, empathy and happiness theories, appreciative methods, humanistic psychotherapies and existential analysis is theoretical and methodological bases of policy and practice in the humanistic social work.



Keywords: human rights, personality, socio-human context, self-determination, humanistic social worker