Esthetic needs in the professional activity of social worker

Abstract

The article argues that a social worker, who is a direct subject of social work, performs a variety of roles and functions. His professional work is aimed at helping those in need (adults and children). There is an opinion that the social worker is able to perform his purpose productively in the conditions of satisfying his various needs, among which spiritual needs are the main, is grounded. They are based on aesthetic needs, namely: knowledge and self-knowledge of the aesthetic, the beautiful, the sublime and the tragic; creation of aesthetic environment; establishing humane relations between the subjects of interaction; formation of sensual intimacy, communication; mutual aesthetic activity; acquiring knowledge and understanding of works of art, etc.