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In this study, it is aimed to determine the problems encountered by social workers in their working lives and it is aimed to examine the findings. The results of the study are considered as important because they will shed light on the problems of social workers and increase the sensitivity to these problems in the point of finding solutions. The research was carried out in depth with all social workers working in Burdur province by using qualitative method. The data were analyzed being subject to content analysis descriptively. NVIVO package program was used for analysis. Result of the analyses were specified as the most common problems encountered by social workers in working lives such problems as arising from legislation, exposure to mobbing, overload of documents, lack of importance and value given to social workers, non-compliance of physical conditions in institutions, job density and inadequacy of salaries.

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