The social welfare service provided to the family of adult mental retardations staying at homes has been provided neither fully, nor actively in the side of the family, nor surely being of their needs. So their service has only been done to the mental retardations without their family situation.
That is because the social welfare service system is the initial stage of introducing to fundamentally reduce the family care giving-burden of adult mental retardations staying at homes as well as it was not discussed how to go and practice the service for their family.
Therefore, the social welfare service should be provided not only systematically but also professionally. That might enforce the mental retardations wellbeing as well as the function of family care at last. Through this enforcement, the quality of life of both the adult mental retardations and their family will be enhanced. In this sense, the family of adult mental retardations is considered as the consumer who has the purchasing power and the right or the sovereign.
This paper is aimed not only to formalize social resources which would be there at the micro, meso, or macro environmental level - and which the family possibly utilizes - but also to suggest the approach to what service social work practice provides the family.
Keywords: the family of adult mental retardations care giving-burden, social work practice