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The Rohingya refugee crisis remains one of Bangladesh’s prolonged and complex humanitarian emergencies. Following the forced displacement of over 750,000 Rohingya from Myanmar in August 2017, refugee camps in Cox’s Bazar have experienced pressure on communities and humanitarian services. This study examines the role of social workers in responding to the crisis across the Kutupalong-Balukhali, Hakimpara, and Jamtoli refugee camps. A qualitative-dominant design was adopted, drawing on 26 in-depth, semi-structured interviews and three focus group discussions, each involving six participants, supported by an open-ended questionnaire administered to participants and secondary documentary sources for triangulation. Qualitative data were analyzed using thematic and content analysis. The findings indicate that social workers play a vital role in linking refugees with services through child protection, gender-based violence prevention, community engagement, mobile outreach, and inter-agency collaboration. The study emphasizes the need for recognition of social work as a humanitarian profession to strengthen humanitarian responses and service delivery.

This study examined students’ multidimensional needs in the school environment and school social work in relation to these needs from school counselors’ perspectives. The qualitative study included 20 school counselors working in 15 primary and middle schools in Tuzla, Istanbul. Data were collected through face-to-face semi-structured interviews and analyzed using content analysis. Three themes emerged: students’ problems and existing support practices, family- and school-related factors, and perceptions of school social work and interprofessional collaboration. Findings showed that students’ needs involved individual, familial, social, and environmental dimensions. Participants viewed school social work as a complementary professional field that could strengthen counseling services and school–family–community linkages. By demonstrating the relationship between students’ multidimensional needs and the complementary and interprofessional functions of school social work from school counselors’ perspectives, the study contributes to the school social work literature.