title: Preparing Ukrainian social workers: adapting higher education to wartime requirements
abstract: Social work as a profession and academic discipline began its development in post-socialist Ukraine during the 1990s.According to the Unified State Electronic Database on Education, by 2022, Ukraine had 416 educational programs in the field of Social Work offered across 117 higher education institutions (HEIs).These programs spanned undergraduate (Junior Bachelor and Bachelor), graduate (Master), and postgraduate (PhD) levels.Notably, a single HEI may host multiple programs at the same level, su