This article provides views on the activities of social services. Based on sufficient evidence, it has been substantiated that the problems of social services are fundamentally different from each other, and, they directly affect the person. At the same time, it stresses on the fact that solving social problems requires public strength and effort. Special attention is paid to the types of social work. It also focuses on the role of the social worker, their place and tasks in the psychosocial assessment of social activities, and tries to reveal the methodological basis of social work on a scientific
basis.