Social work incorporates counseling, care, support and prevention of social problems which in a synopsis of the social security and related integration and control mechanisms play an increasingly important role. The context in this article examines expectations and reality of practical science ;therefore, social work requires careful analysis of current practices. This practice is determined by different tasks and activities of social work, through their social legitimacy, and by their own values and needs. The virtual absence of the connection between social welfare and poverty shows the weakness of social work as a science. Social work has traditionally been influenced by theories from sociology, education, psychology or medicine.
This work deals with present problems of hospice and palliative care. Dying is an inseparable part of everyone´s life. We can point out that hospice care is a big contribution not only for dying person but for his family as well. Hospice and palliative care is a complex care which tries hard to ensure not only patient´s biological needs but also his psychological, social and spiritual needs. It provides health care to an incurably ill person.
In this article, the terms used are discussed. This first is a survey requiring some significant theoretical approaches to the explanation of social control, the normative ideas of social integration, the dialectic of inclusion and exclusion or inclusion and exclusion as well as the social role of helping professions in which the social work – in relation to pedagogy, psychology, law, or medicine –has an increasingly important position. Social control in this article simply is not as a repressive instrument, which can lead to stigmatization and social exclusion, but also as a socially critical approach to the analysis of the functions of social institutions.
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