This book presents a comprehensive overview of social work responses to contemporary risk domains, emphasizing an ethical and rights-based orientation that prioritizes empowerment and inclusion. Across five chapters, it invites readers to reconsider social work roles at micro, mezzo, and macro levels in contexts shaped by technological change, urban inequality, environmental crises, and the post-pandemic “new normal.”
(1) “Yapay Zekâ ve Sosyal Hizmetin Entegrasyonu: Fırsatlar ve Tehditler” (Furkan Ulusal) discusses how AI tools may support assessment, case management, and service access, while also warning against algorithmic bias, opacity, privacy violations, and the potential weakening of social work’s relational core.
(2) “Dijital Dönüşüm Sürecinde Yeni Bağımlılıklar ve Sosyal Hizmet Mesleğinin Rolü” (Hakan Karaman, Musa Gürel) frames digitally driven addictions as complex welfare problems and outlines social work interventions including early identification, prevention programs, digital/media literacy, family and school engagement, and advocacy for digital rights.
(3) “Sosyal Hizmet Perspektifinde Göç ve Kent Yoksulluğu” (Metin Zafer, Recep Argunağa, Emrah Kılınç) analyzes how migration intersects with urban poverty through spatial segregation and social exclusion, and highlights municipalities as key actors for building accessible and inclusive urban support networks.
(4) “Çevresel Adalet ve Sosyal Hizmet: Eko-Sosyal Yaklaşımlar” (Bilgesu Çüm) addresses climate-related and environmental risks via environmental justice, stressing disproportionate impacts on vulnerable groups and positioning eco-social work as a pathway for advocacy, community empowerment, and policy transformation centered on sustainability and intergenerational responsibility.
(5) “Pandemi Sonrası Toplumsal Dönüşüm: Sosyal Hizmetin Yeni Rolü ve Stratejileri” (Ummühani Uslu) evaluates post-pandemic challenges—widened inequalities, digital gaps, and growing psychosocial needs—and proposes crisis governance, technology-supported services, interdisciplinary collaboration, and stronger community-based solidarity strategies.
Taken together, the chapters aim to strengthen social work’s ability to produce timely, accountable, and inclusive responses, while remaining aligned with professional ethics and human rights. The volume ultimately positions social work as both a direct service profession and a policy-oriented actor capable of shaping resilient and just social systems.