<p>The following article reports on a documentary review, which focuses on the relationship between: social work, intervention and research, of course, with social work and its lines of professional action as its central axis. This writing is about a theoretical compilation on professional practice, which arises from the observation in the field and the bibliographic review of different authors. Currently, social work has been covered by a set of practices (which many times do not respond to the criteria of professional performance), which must be claimed from the core of the profession, since they have stopped carrying out actions typical of professional work and Similarly, others have been forgotten (institutional social work; clinical social work; planning; execution and design of community projects; school attendance, among others) that were assumed by different scientific disciplines. In the same way, a call for attention is made to incorporate the systematization of experiences in professional practice, an organizational process that significantly contributes to the registration of experiences and accumulation of knowledge in professional practice.</p>