Abstract
Social workers engaged in a actual region of social welfare should basecally possess affectionate "welfare mind" and strengthen the connection with other colleagues. Based on steady view point and identity as social workers, they have to protect or help the welfare elegibilities in a weak circumstances. This report defines some conditions of a professional social worker, constructing a framework of the outher's own after KEIICHIRO SHIMADA's paper. The professional authority as a social worker in actual region may be appreciated by his expert knowledge, his theoretical system and integration of theory and practice. This view on professional authority can be introduced from "CODES OF ETHICS" of The Association of Japanese Social Workers. Our special authority may be the professional position in a social system through a social valuation. Then the author proposes his concept of a independent social worker law. According to nim, the entitlement of social workers ought to be classified to three types: type I, type II, type III. Through this report, author insists further on the wide spread discussion on the above problems for the sake of future inprovement of social welfare.
