Despite its three-decade history, social work lacks professional status in Nepal. Drawing on authors’ own critical reflection, this article documents strategies to advance social work’s professional status through a process of social legitimation. Following a brief discussion of social work in Nepal, it reports on issues pertinent to, and efforts, thus far, to professionalise social work noting strategies to advance professional identity, status and recognition in Nepal.

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社会工作的社会合法化：在尼泊尔提高专业地位和认可的策略


尽管社会工作已有三十年的历史，但在尼泊尔缺乏专业地位。借鉴作者自己的批判性反思，本文记录了通过社会合法化过程提升社会工作专业地位的策略。在简要讨论了尼泊尔的社会工作之后，它报告了与社会工作专业化相关的问题和迄今为止的努力，并指出了提高尼泊尔专业身份、地位和认可的策略。