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Social work may be distinguished as one of the caring professions which has developed an overt concern with the process of professionalization. This is not to suggest that the issue of professionalization has not had a vital place in the analysis of, and debates about, nursing or occupational therapy. What is peculiar to social work is the way in which concepts of professionalization have been used explicitly in the formation of occupational identity and related social structures at specific points in the twentieth century. Social work is often regarded as a new profession, although in relation to similar occupations this may be something of a misattribution. The emergence of social work as an occupation can be seen to have begun in the second half of the nineteenth century, parallel with the development of nursing, and just prior to the emergence of occupational therapy as a single, distinct entity.
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