Asн los denominan en Ucrania

Термин "Социальный работник" употребляется в независимости от полового признака, социальный работник -человек, работающий в сфере социальных услуг, или человек, работающий на общественных началах.


trabajador social -
работник сферы социальных проблем (преим. государственных учреждений здравоохранения, социального обеспечения и т. п.; такие работники посещают одиноких больных и стариков, следят за «неблагополучными» семьями и т. п.)

Работник социальной сферы.
Длинно, но правильно, т.к. "социальный работник" - это понятно, но является просторечием. В словаре русского языка РАН (том 4) дается общее понятие: работник социальной сферы, а потом идет разграничение - работник социального обеспечения и работник социального страхования, т. е. двух форм материального обеспечения при наступлении нетрудоспособности, старости и иных предусмотренных законом случаях, осуществляемых за счет государства или общественных фондов потребления.

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Note added at 2002-03-17 13:42:20 (GMT)
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Комментарий для Eli. Социальные проблемы-беспризорность, безработица и т.д. Госучреждения здравоохранения-больницы, поликлиники и т.д. не занимаются вопросами социального обеспечения, это делают фонды обязательного медицинского страхования. Не пользуйтесь примитивными словарями, а лучше загляните в академические.

Или "общественная работница".

Social Work, professional activity aimed generally at enriching and enhancing individual and group development or at alleviating adverse social and economic conditions. Its practitioners work to provide care for abused or neglected children; rehabilitate the physically, mentally, or emotionally handicapped; and extend financial aid to the poor and the aged. Social workers also carry out treatment, counseling, and direct-service activities to help those individuals with mental and emotional disorders, to help rehabilitate those with disabilities, or to provide preventive services.Formerly, all forms of philanthropic and charitable activities, including those of untrained, civic-minded individuals, were regarded as social work. Such activities focused primarily on solving the immediate problems of the indigent and did little to change the conditions that caused those problems. More recently, however, a vast amount of new social research has made possible analyses of the social and economic maladjustments of modern society, and the activities of social workers have been coordinated in an effort to achieve the maximum possible benefit both for those individuals who are in need and for the entire community.

TYPES OF SOCIAL WORKERS
Social workers may be employed in varied settings. Social caseworkers deal directly with the individual or the family. They work in family-service agencies, medical and psychiatric hospitals and clinics, public agencies, substance-abuse clinics, and industrial settings. In the last two decades, there has been a trend toward professionals working in private practice rather than in the nonprofit or public sector. After determining the nature of the client's problem, the clinical social worker tries to help the person overcome these difficulties or obtain appropriate assistance. In recent years the areas of specialization within social work have increased greatly.

The social group worker is usually concerned with planning or leading activities of large groups of persons. This type of social work is often carried out in recreation centers such as those maintained by the American Red Cross and the Young Men's Christian Association, and in hospitals and other therapeutic settings.

Social planners are social workers who conduct research and help develop social welfare policies, frequently acting as proponents of social legislation. Community organizers act as area-wide coordinators of all the programs of different agencies so as best to meet community needs for health and welfare services. They also facilitate self-help programs initiated by local common-interest groups, for example, by training local leaders to analyze and solve the problems of a community. Community organizers work actively, as do other types of social workers, in community councils of social agencies and in community-action groups. At times the role of community organizers overlaps that of the social planners.