1) Social service 2) Social service concern 3) Social service studies 4) Welfare work 
(from the article `social service`) The origins of modern social casework can be traced to the appointment of the first medical almoners in Britain in the 1880s, a practice quickly ...
[n] - close sociological study of a maladjusted person or family for diagnosis and treatment
noun close sociological study of a maladjusted person or family for diagnosis and treatment