International Standard Classification of Education : fields of education and training ISCED: fields of education and training

Social work and counselling is the study of the welfare needs of communities, specific groups and individuals and the appropriate ways of meeting these needs. The focus is on social welfare with emphasis on social policy and practice.

Programmes and qualifications with the following main content are classified here:

• Alcohol and drug abuse counselling
• Alcohol, tobacco, drugs (knowledge about)
• Crisis support
• Family and marriage counselling
• Mobbing and maltreatment (knowledge about)
• Parole officer training
• Probation officer training
• Social policy
• Social practice
• Social theory (applied)
• Social work (welfare)
• Vocational counselling
• Vocational guidance

Study of sociology and social science is excluded from this detailed field and included in detailed field 0314 'Sociology and cultural studies'.

Studies combining health care and social care (e.g. for old people) are excluded from this detailed field and included in detailed field 0913 'Nursing and midwifery'.