The aim of the final thesis is to analyze the problems and perspectives of social work with disharmonious families. The following are the objectives of the thesis: 1) Discuss the basic functions of a family and the problems of their expression in today’s Lithuania; 2) Reveal the limited preconditions for the socialization of disharmonious families; 3) Describe the activity and its perspectives of a social worker in the provision of help for disharmonious families; 4) Describe the technologies of social work in the strengthening of social skills of the family members; 5) Carry out the analysis of social problems and the need for social help of disharmonious families. The object of the research of the final thesis is social work with disharmonious families. The theoretical part of the thesis presents an overview of the following issues: disharmonious (amoral, problematic) families that do not create appropriate moral conditions to up bring the children, where alcohol addiction, abuse, conflicts even fights prevail, where the members of a family steal public property. It also discusses the adaptation possibilities of such families in societal and economic life; social problems of the families under risk (addiction, violence, abuse, poverty, lack of knowledge and skills, etc.); the socialization of the family members and the main functions of the family; discusses the functions, activity, problems of social workers in the provision of social help for disharmonious families... [to full text]