Family assistantships as a professional dimension of support for modern families
Family assistantships as a professional dimension of support for modern families

Summary/Abstract: The aim of the study was to find out in what manner the family assistants subjected to the study accompany the families they support. The manner was used as a framework for the analyses of professional functioning and experiences of the group of professionals subjected to the study. It appears that the family assistants’ accounts show the essence of their professional role. The case study method was used. In the presented analyses, assistantships appear to be work aimed at introducing changes in the lives of families whose members are treated as partners or clients, and much less frequently perceived as friends. In the development of professional competences of the respondents there is a certain randomness than the planned educational activity and insufficiently widespread systematic supervision is visible. The negative context of the research results refers to attributing the causes of failures to inappropriate attitudes of family members, limited reflection on one’s own actions and the lack of a sense of being part of a team of specialists working with the family.

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