Mission
Social work is a practice-based profession that promotes social change and development, social cohesion, and the empowerment and liberation of people. Principles central of social work are social justice, human rights, collective responsibility, and respect for diversity.  Utilizing theories of social work, social sciences, humanities, and indigenous knowledge, social work deals with people and structures to address life challenges and promote wellbeing.
Graduates help individuals, families, small groups, organizations, and communities to solve various social problems they are facing. They strive for problem cases to achieve the ability to solve their challenges independently and to live a healthy and successful life.
After successful completion of two years of social work education, graduates will work in public and private sectors as social workers.
Program Objectives
Social Services Programme’s aim is to educate professional social workers who have received necessary social work training in order to plan, organize and implement social services and practice the social work profession.
Our aim as İAÜ, Department of Social Services is to prepare our students who can transfer what is learned in classrooms into practice in different areas such as rural and urban settings, utilize scientific knowledge as necessary, and critically evaluate their own professional practice. In order to achieve these objectives, our curriculum is organized as generalist social work education including fieldwork in different fields of social work as well as social work research courses.
Department Opportunities

• Double major
• Opportunity to perform the skills gained with applied education in the best way in professional business life upon graduation
• Opportunity to continue undergraduate education

Career Opportunities
Demand for social workers in Turkey is very high. They are to be employed in social services and social projects/programs. Our graduates will have a chance to work as social workers in various fields such as child welfare, family welfare, forensic settings, hospitals, and psychiatric clinics, elderly welfare, disability services, industrial areas. They are also engaged in alleviating poverty and working in social assistance programs, implementing community and social projects supported by the Government and/or NGO’s and work in some international organizations such as the UN, EU, etc.