Sobchak N. Content and Forms of Social Workers' Professional Training in the System of Continuing Education of the US.

Object: social workers' professional training in the US system of continuing education. Purpose: to reveal the peculiarities of structure, content and forms of social workers' training in the US system of continuing education; to define the possibilities as to the implementation of the American experience of social workers' training in Ukraine. Methods: analytical, theoretical generalization. Results: the peculiarities of content and forms of social workers' professional and postgraduate training in the US are revealed for the first time; the comparative analysis of social workers' training in the US and Ukraine has been conducted for the first time; the possibilities as to the implementation of progressive ideas of American experience of social workers' training in Ukraine has been defined for the first time; recommendations as to the implementation of some elements of the American model of social work education in Ukraine have been formulated.