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In article the international experience of occurrence and introduction in social – pedagogical, pedagogical and psychological activity of a phenomenon of welfare animation is considered.
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In article the international experience of occurrence and introduction in social – pedagogical, pedagogical and psychological activity of a phenomenon of welfare animation is considered.
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The paper conceptualizes and quantifies effects of improving adequacy in the minimum income scheme in Slovakia. It builds on previous findings on its significant shortcomings and discusses them in relation to the ideas of activation, active inclusion and social investments. The core of the paper is based on microsimulation of effects of proposed reform scenarios. Three major changes of minimum income scheme’s parameters are explored: setting new amounts of minimum income benefit, introducing guaranteed amounts in the minimum income scheme, and change of equivalence scale. The effects are identified in terms of poverty rate, poverty gap, size of target population and budget requirements. Results serve as a basis for discussion on future reforms of the minimum income scheme in Slovakia.
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The primary objective of this study is to examine the relationship between economic characteristics and well-being as one of the components of quality of life. The study is based on microdata obtained from a representative EU-SILC 2013 survey covering the Slovak population age 16 and older. Subjective well-being is proxied by a score reflecting the general mood or affect, including depression, anxiety, and psychologic well-being. The estimated mean value of the total subjective well-being score is 70 (median: 73). The results presented in this study suggest that economic factors are strongly correlated with the level of subjective well-being. The findings propose positive and diminishing returns to income; unemployed people score on average approximately 9 points lower than those who are employed; people living in indebted households have a lower level of subjective well-being than those living in households without debts; and the ability to face unexpected financial expenses increases the level of well-being.
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Social justice as one of the basic principles of social policy is a relative phenomenon that can be interpreted differently in space and time. The research paper addresses the content framework of the social justice phenomenon in the optics of the socio-political-economic specifics of the theory and practice of the axiological systems of Western civilization. The main aim is to identify the understanding of social justice by the power goverments of the Slovak Republic through the mechanisms of valorisation of old-age pensions in the time horizon of 2010 – 2018.
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Proved exhibition or fair as a welfare and economic category as a difficult scale object of design.
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The purpose of this study is to evaluate the efficiency of probation process, which has been effectively used in our country, for rehabilitation and treatment of drug users that have been directed to an ASATC unit from a social work perspective. The study was conducted in Ege University, Faculty of Medicine Addiction Psychiatry Clinic on a sample of 302 participants out of 692 who applied to the clinic between 01.10.2014 and 31.03.2015 and volunteered for the study. A questionnaire developed by the researcher was used as data collection tool, and the collected data was analyzed in IBM SPSS 15.0 software program. According to the findings, more than half of the participants are younger than 25; the most commonly used drug is marijuana; and the average drug history is 5-6 years. The relationship between duration of drug use and the participants’ age is statistically significant, and the most frequently cited reason in starting drug use is detected as “curiosity”. Although majority of the participants believe that probation is effective in terms of creating awareness and consciousness about addiction, a considerable part of the participants find the process inconclusive. All in all; whereas it is an important finding for the future prospects of the probation practice that majority of the participants believe it is helpful, overall findings point to a need for more efficient functioning of the probation practice. In this context, it is assumed that probation process could be more efficiently utilized with a multidisciplinary approach and via increased cooperation between institutions.
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Aims: The paper deals with the importance of supervision in increasing the social worker's professionalism and the quality of the social services provided in the context of the possibilities of real implementation of supervision in practice, which is enshrined in the Social Services Act no. 448/2008 Z.z. Methods: Research was conducted at the end of 2016 and early January 2017, data were collected by semi-structured interviews on a sample of 12 social workers with experience in the social field and an average length of practice of 6.7 years. Results: We analyzed the research findings by open coding that allowed us to get answers to questions about motivation to practice a social worker's profession, we focused on the issues related to the implementation of supervision in practice, its advantages and disadvantages as well as ways of providing supervision or the its impacts on the development of a social worker's personality and the providing of social services. Discussion: Concerning the motivation for doing profession of social workers, the participants presented reasons such as the desire to help, the possibility of self-fulfillment, the achievement of personal needs, the diversity of social work, personal preconditions and temperament. Concerning the benefits of supervision, results have shown management, control, accompaniment, development, education as the most important; we have coded the disadvantages based on the codes such as: financial costs, low motivation and unwillingness, supervision as a duty, non-cooperation of social service facilities or lack of information. Conclusion: In conclusion, supervision brings many positive aspects, it strongly supports the development of the personality of the employees, improves the organization's mission and goals, it helps to improve the quality of the provided social services, motivation of social workers, just in case it is carried out regularly, systematically, supervision is provided by an external supervisor rather than an internal person, funding of supervision.
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Introduction: The alcohol issue is one of the most frequent health disorders nowadays. It refers to both poor and the richestones, to successful and fauly average people; it concerns all social ranks. Natality decreases and percentage of seniors increases not only in Slovakia. They oftens werve from the right way and become addicted on variol forms of addictions. Therefore it is necessary to deal with the issue and not to put off the seniors to the edge of society. Thesis Focus: Main goal of the Thesis is to find out specific Leeds of seniors with living addictions in social service facilities, which would serve as a foundation for searching the application methods of social work with the given group. Material and Methodology: In order to achieve conclusion processing, based upon personal contact with participants, built on an individual approach towards clients, there was chosen a qualitative research. It is in numeric research, built on research questions. Data collection was realized via structured interview with open questions. Results: Addiction as well as its consequences do have an influence not only on health condition of a senior, but also on the subjective evaluation of its users. The addiction also negatively influences social status of a senior. Addicted seniors have thein specific requirements for fulfilling the life quality. Conclusion: The facts prove there is an urgent need to deal with the isme of the senior addiction in a social service facilities more intensively and not to leave the isme solution only within the handsof caretakers and social workers. We believe the presented results will help for the further research of such complicated issue in a vicious circle of addictions. At the same time we wish to all addicted individuals, younger and olderones, to both women and men to be convinced on the necessity of thein permanent abstinence.
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The fact that the employee is satisfied with the work and therefore with the workplace is beneficial in terms of both employee and workplace in many respects. At first, employee satisfaction will increase their productivity. Therefore, the goods or services produced will increase and this will support both the development of the industry and the profitability of the company. In this study, the factors affecting the satisfaction of the working people were discussed. For this purpose, a questionnaire was applied to 2000 employee in Bursa. Estimation results of the logistic regression model used in the study reveal that the satisfaction of the working person depends on many factors. However, it is seen that the most important factors are respectively the status of the employee and the industry. In other words, employee satisfaction varies according to sectors and the status of the employee. In addition, incomes, gender, marital status, social assistance, service and overtime pay are also factors that affect satisfaction.
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This article examines how various institutional mechanisms of the housing policy and sector could secure or limit the chances of housing self-provision or housing retention among youth and young households. It argues that institutional social forces within the housing policy and sector could define the features of a household, and housing career predetermine individual and household behavior. Individuals living in different housing arrangements that depend on the housing type and tenure differ among themselves by everyday consumption, access to public goods and households in which these individuals reside. If housing is an important resource distributed unequally in contemporary societies, young individuals are a precarious social group because their chances of acquiring a stable housing are much more limited compared to older generations. The goal of this study is to disclose the situation of housing self-provision among youth (18–29-year olds) and young-adults (30–35-year olds) in the private housing sector of Lithuania. The author achieves this goal by using the representative survey data analysis to present socio-demographic profile of youth and young adults who occupy different housing positions and have different housing careers. The housing career of the private rent sector is associated with socio-demographic characteristics of “temporality” and the start of independent young individual’s life, while housing ownership career integrates various types of youth groups. Moreover, the private housing career of living with parents is the feature of youth pre-cohabiting with a partner in their pre-independent phase of life cycle. However, one seventh of all young households with their own children live in parents’ housing units. This demonstrates that a substantial share of young households experiences housing deprivation and lacks chances of housing self-provision in Lithuania. Other two housing careers—housing with mortgage and total ownership of housing by young households—are associated with features of family formation (cohabitation with a partner or marital union), childbirthing and childbearing. These two last housing positions synchronize with shifting household status in the demographic life cycle.
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Social innovation is an extensive area of activities aimed at permanently improving the conditions and quality of life, which are at the heart of both social policy and social work. They appear in the context of the development of new products, services and programs that meet social needs, public service delivery, the growing role of civil society and the role of social economy, the model of public management and multisectoral model in the delivery of social services. The paper presents the social dimension of innovation and its implications for the functioning of the civic sector in care services for dependents and their family members. This paper presents first effects of the innovation stimulus programs for this group of service recipients within the framework of broadly understood social services for families.
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Article presents the Polish and German approach to the issue of professional activation of the disabled. Both models, in many respects, especially from the normative, are similar. Poland took over many German solutions and have adapted them to national circumstances. The German support system is a coherent system, and is being implemented successfully. While the Polish system of support for people with disabilities characterized by low efficiency and employment effectiveness of this social group, as a result of many factors, mainly the obstruction system. Poland is currently at the stage of implementation of measures to change the model policy of support for people with limited efficiencies by implementing more personalized support mechanisms (eg. Job-coach, services assistants of people with disabilities), or instruments that encourage enterprise market and social to employ the disabled and supporting the development of entities social economy.
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The article presents the activities of the Poviat in Radom in eliminating a transport and educational barriers encountered by people with disabilities. Furthermore, the role of Occupational Therapy Workshops in the field of occupational rehabilitation and the work of the Poviat Labor Office in the field of co-financing for setting up business activity and co-financing for practice of the people with disabilities were presented. In the end, the author presented suggestions for recommendations leading to more effective vocational rehabilitation of disabled inhabitants of the poviat.
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This article is an introduction to the topic of the axiology in a social work. A social work, as a professional, supportive and pro-social activity, appeals to and aspires to the realization of values. The purpose of this study, based on the literature, is to show the essence of responsibility in a social work. This category should be considered from the perspective of the participants in the social relationship − the social worker and the client of social assistance services. Such angle of looking enables us to recognize responsibility as not only theoretical but also practical problem.
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In the sixteenth century of Istanbul, the Khalwati convents could be classified into three groups considering how they satisfy the need for food; the convents with its own kitchen, the convents that supply the food from the imaret of the complex, the convents about which we have no information where to meet the need for food. The convents were serving meals to the the convent staff, the household of the sheikh, the staff of other units in the complex -if the convent was constructed in a complex, the poor, the guests that spent the night in the convents and the guests on blessed days and nignts. Owing to serving food to a large segment of society, the convents got in touch with many people. Although the fund for feeding people, the staff who prepares food and kitchen utensils etc. were registered in detail in vakf documents, it is possible to find limited information about architectural details of the convent kitchens. Convent kitchens could have been in modest dimensions as well as large scale structures operating like imaret. When the kitchens are examined from a spatial point of view, it is seen that the convent kitchen was placed near the units of the "selamlık" unit. In the vakf documents also, feeding units such as "taamhane", "kilar", "fırın" are mentioned. These structures were mostly located near the convent kitchen.
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The aim of the article is to characterize qualitative methods and their application in the field of social work. Qualitative research methods are first characterized in relation to quantitative approach. Next sections outline the objectives of applying qualitative methods in domain of social work and their role as a diagnostic and evaluation technique. Article provides a concise overview of the phases in the development of qualitative research methodologies and their reception in the field of social work. In the first stages of this methodological development, it was typical to conceive of the researcher and the methods themselves as external and neutral to the research subject. A significant feature of the qualitative studies as they are conducted nowadays is the co-production of knowledge by researchers and social work practitioners.
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Professional counselling is one of the most crucial elements of the active labour market policy. It is an area of interdisciplinary inquiries and practices that draw on knowledge and inspiration from many areas of science including psychology, sociology or philosophy. This article notes that social work should also be included in this area. The practice of everyday life indicates a strong connection between these two contexts, both as a result of the work of career counselors and social workers, as well as institutional and social policy frameworks. Th is article is a reflection on the utility of the selected models of vocational guidance and professional counseling in the context of social work.
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The review of: - Blackwell S. „Am I Bipolar or Waking Up?“, Create Space Publishing, Washington 2011, pp. 231. ISBN – 13: 978-1461178255 - Boyd Webb N. (ed.) „Housing, Social Work Practice with Children and Families, 3rd ed“. The Guilford Press, New York 2011. ISBN – 13: 978-1609186432 - McNeil F., Weaver B. Lifelines: Desistance, social relations, and reciprocity. “Criminal Justice and Behavior”, 2015, 42 (1): 95–107 - Schechner R., Chatterjee S., Boal A., City Councillor. Legislative theatre and the chamber in the streets: An interview. “TDR”, 1998, 4: 75–90
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The problem of childhood management focuses on the impact on the realm of life through direct care exercised over him by his guardians or by public institutions. In this context, the management of childhood concerns family policy, in which the child through their guardians and made their choices become the beneficiary of the rights guaranteed by the state, such as family benefits, relief for families, maternity, parental, etc., regardless of the level of family life and experienced difficulties. This perspective is a wider dimension to the management of childhood. While the narrower scope of the management of childhood comes at a time of an acquisition over the family and the child directly “control” of state institutions when the family itself is unable to independently perform its functions, care and education. This dimension is analyzed by the authors of this study. In their analysis they refer to the process of managing childhood in the structures of the care and educational institutions, indicating at the same time the individual and social consequences of this management for the development of the Little Man.
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