Types Of Social Work Research Articles

Psychological features of training future social workers

Social work belongs to professions that have emerged and established themselves to meet urgent societal needs. The purpose of specialists in this field is not only to create necessary conditions for the social protection of people, groups, and communities but also to foster their ability to build their lives and mobilize internal resources to overcome life crises. The article aims to characterize the practical significance and types of social work while exploring the essence of psychological aspects in the professional activity of social workers. The main directions of the article are to investigate the interrelation between social work and psychology and to clarify the psychological features of education for future social workers. Several research methods were employed, including general scientific methods such as synthesis, analysis, deduction, and induction, which helped determine the research goal and conduct the analytical processing of scientific sources. It enabled the structuring of available domestic and foreign literature on psychological and social work matters and the historiographic and retrospective methods. The research findings reveal vital theoretical aspects of psychological preparation for future social workers during their educational process. The study of scientific-practical materials allowed identifying essential trends in training for social work professionals.

SOCIAL SUPPORT OF A FAMILY-TYPE ORPHANAGE

The article reveals the social support of a family-type orphanage, which is a type of social work that involves the implementation of centers of social services for young people in the system of long-term care through the provision of comprehensive social services by social workers involved, if necessary, professionals, parents -teachers in order to protect and realize the rights of children who are in their upbringing. The purpose of the article is to reveal the features of social support of a family-type orphanage. Research methods apllied: generalization, concretization, synthesis, theoretical analysis of sources. The author describes the content of stages of development of a family-type orphanage and features of interaction between a social worker and a family and a social institution of a family-type orphanage, which are to help the client understand his real problems and distinguish them from problems created by him; help to make a decision on this problem and address the person to a specialist to solve the problem by appropriate methods. This allows to formulate the tasks of a social worker of the center of social services for youth and to identify problems of social support of the family − the team, rehabilitation, socio-therapeutic, which specifies the content of their activities, consisting of a list of services (advisory, informational, socio-pedagogical, psychological, socio-economic, legal, socio-medical). In our opinion, such work contributes to the restoration of the family’s independence in solving its problems through learning to solve and prevent these problems, reduce the impact of the problem on family life, prevent its crisis and disintegration, eliminate the consumer approach to society and creating conditions for normal family life. The results of the study are a substantiation of the content, tasks and main functions of social support of family-type orphanages, which is a form of state support for the family in the interests of the child. Prospects for further research in this direction, we see in the disclosure of the functions of a social worker in preparing the child to leave the orphanage and into independent living.

Законодателни, организационни и управленски основи на свързаността между формалното и неформалното образование в България

The article provides a theoretical analysis of the legal framework in the country in terms of the possibilities, regulations and conditions for the implementation of integrated (extracurricular or extracurricular) activities combining formal and non-formal education. A leading method for the qualitative study is the analysis of documents, which in this case covers the fields of educational and social legislation. On this basis, the various forms, and activities for more individualized and differentiated activities are analyzed in parallel as pedagogical but also as a specific type of social work in support of their interests and stakes, as well as for their personal and professional development. the opportunities of non-formal education and social work to support the education system and its institutions in unity. Special attention is also paid to the contribution of non-formal education to the objectives of social work

MENTORING FOR ORPHANS AND CHILDREN DEPRIVED OF PARENTAL CARE IN UKRAINE: WAYS TO OPTIMIZE THE PROCESS

The relevance of the study is due to the need for a theoretical understanding of the experience of mentoring as a type of social work, and its practical application in the field of social protection of childhood, prevention of «secondary» orphanhood. The purpose of the article is to analyze the development of mentoring in boarding schools, identify key issues in the implementation of the mentoring program, study the best domestic and foreign experience, develop proposals for improving the organization and conduct of mentoring in Ukraine. The main methods used in the study are divided into theoretical (analysis, synthesis, comparison, generalization, modeling, classification) and empirical (document analysis, expert survey). An analysis of the domestic experience in organizing the mentoring process and the factors that slow it down. The analysis of documents was used in work with the letter of an assessment of needs of the child, the individual plan of work of the mentor, the standard agreement on mentoring. Thanks to the method of classification, the ways to improve the mentoring mechanism at the level of the Centers for Social Services for Families, Children and Youth, the state, and the coordination of interaction between government agencies become clear. The study found that mentoring as an alternative to adoption, which has been transformed from volunteering to social work since 2016, is an extremely effective tool for supporting children, important for stability, confidence and preparation for independent life of young men and women. It has been proven that there are factors that slow down the pace of mentoring for orphans and children deprived of parental care. Among them, the main ones are high «cost» (in time and human resources), inconsistency of actions of the main participants of the program, lack of large-scale information campaign.

Family social work: the realities of Ukraine

The family social work in Ukraine is only at the stage of its developing. Deriving from the paternalistic philosophy, the demonopolisation of the market of social services places new demands on social policy aimed at implementing and regulating social work with families as a separate social structure. The purpose of the research is to characterise the institutional structure of family social work, to determine the assessment of social services and their quality on the example of a study of families raising children suffering from autism, basing on the system- and structure-centred analysis. The paper highlights the indicators of family-oriented practice, describes the market of social service providers for families, identifies the functions of individual institutions, structural entities and the specifics of their activities. It is revealed that in Ukraine there are two types of social work with families: regulated (state bodies and structural entities) and unregulated activities (individuals-entrepreneurs, public organisations, charitable foundations, volunteers), but this does not ensure its integrity, because most social service providers are not focused on the needs of families of certain social categories. The family social work in Ukraine could be divided into three types in the framework of its professionalization: a professional activity, a non-professional activity and a "mixed" (partly professional) activity. The survey provides an assessment of individual indicators of social services by the families raising children who suffer from autism (targeting family social work, access to services offered in the region, the presence of stigma, the effectiveness of social advertising of existing services, their compliance with family needs, etc.). It was discovered that most of the services offered are not in demand; they do not take into account the contextual and environmental background in which families operate either; service providers are biased towards families raising children with autism. Many families are in an information vacuum, which becomes an obstacle to expanding their rights and opportunities, the work done with them can be defined as fragmentary and chaotic; it does not take into account the role of the community in maintaining family resilience.

DEVELOPMENT OF STUDENTS’ TALENTS IN UKRAINIAN HIGHER EDUCATION SCHOOLS

REVT Alla – PhD (Education), Associate Professor of General Pedagogy and Preschool Education Department, Drohobych Ivan Franko State Pedagogical University, 24 Ivan Franko Str., Drohobych, 82100, UkraineE-mail address: alla_revt@ukr.netORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8006-6186ResearcherID: https://publons.com/researcher/1965658/alla-revt/ KARPENKO Oresta – PhD hab. (Education), Professor of General Pedagogy and Preschool Education Department, Drohobych Ivan Franko State Pedagogical University, 24 Ivan Franko Str., Drohobych, 82100, UkraineE-mail address: orestakarpenko@gmail.com ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1841-882X ResearcherID: https://publons.com/researcher/2899891/oresta-karpenko/ To cite this article: Revt, A., & Karpenko, O. (2020). Development of students’ talents in Ukrainian higher education schools. Human Studies. Series of Pedagogy, 11/43, 50‒62. doi: https://doi.org/10.24919/2413-2039.11/43.220437Article history Received: August 15, 2020Received in revised form: September 25, 2020 Accepted: November 23, 2020Available online: December 30, 2020Journal homepage:http://lssp.dspu.edu.ua/p-ISSN 2313-2094e-ISSN 2413-2039© 2020 The Authors. Human studies. Series of Pedagogy published by Drohobych Ivan Franko State Pedagogical University & Open Journal Systems. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/). The article provides a comprehensive analysis of the national and foreign research on talents in general and the talents of university students in particular; the concept of “talent” have been substantiated; the semantic content of the leading concepts of the problem outlined. The features, types, functions and qualities of a gifted personality have been highlighted and systematized. Psychological and pedagogical approaches to the process of development of gifted students have been analyzed and the results of the study of the development of gifted students in higher education institutions are presented.The content, forms and methods of work with gifted students in higher education institutions of Ukraine have been researched and determined. The social conditions for solving the problems of personal social self-realization and professional self-determination of gifted students in the new socio-economic conditions are characterized. The types of social work are revealed, which are aimed at promoting the identification and development of natural talents of young people at the professional level, as well as targeted support of each gifted person and further development of the abilities and talents of an individual, his/her successful creative self-realization.On the basis of the research the development of components of students’ talents has been revealed and the forms of work with student determined which promote development of abilities to the greatest extent. Emphasis is placed on the fact that there is a need to develop a comprehensive methodology for diagnosing giftedness, including determining the level of general personal abilities, intelligence and creativity, as well as motivation, which is reflected in numerous publications of domestic and foreign scholars.Funding. The authors received no financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article.No potential conflict of interest was reported by the authors.

The charitable activities as the basis of the social work

The growth in the number of the country’s charitable organizations, transformation of one-time humanitarian actions (charity) into regular social work with veterans of the Russian-Ukrainian war (since 2014) and internally displaced persons from Donbas, the Autonomous Republic of Crimea have put on the agenda a study of the relationship between charitable activities and social work. The expansion of social work aimed at the elderly, which is often performed by the employees of territorial centers of social services beyond their job descriptions, also determines the relevance of this topic. The task of the study was to substantiate the place of charity in social work, based on the analysis of the activities of the Ukrainian charitable foundations, and employees of six territorial centers of social services in Kharkiv region. It was found that the All-Ukrainian social program “Home Care” of the International Charitable Foundation “Caritas Ukraine” represents social work with people who are not clients of territorial centers of social services. The Regional Landscape Park “Feldman Ecopark” (the flagship project of the International Charitable Foundation “Aleksandr Feldman Foundation”) is often used for social work, particularly with the elderly. It has been substantiated that the charitable activity of these foundations creates conditions for conducting systematic daily social work, in particular, with the elderly. The results of the expert survey of 16 social workers and 21 social workers of the territorial centers of social services of Bohodukhiv, Izium, Krasnokutsk, Lozova, Chuguiv, and Kharkiv districts of Kharkiv region show that charity occupies the leading place in their activities, creating conditions for social work. Charitable activities such as volunteering, social services of public/charitable organizations for the elderly are rightly regarded by experts as social work. The types of social work with the elderly in rural areas, carried out in spare time, such as helping in vegetable gardens, nature rides (in particular, to Feldman Ecopark), group communication on topical issues are referred by the experts to charitable activities. There is a partial overlapping of the subject areas of social work and charity, as well as a common goal – to help. Social workers and officials of the territorial centers of social services in Kharkiv region, performing daily social work with the elderly, often carry out charitable activities, too. It has been proved that charity helps to increase the efficiency of social work, solving many social problems of the territorial community.

Inspection of social services in Sweden: a comparative analysis of the use and adjustment of standards

State supervision – based on different kinds of standard-setting components and sanctions – has increasingly been regarded as one of the most important safeguards for promoting the quality of, and public confidence in state-regulated activities. In several countries, there have been a number of organizational changes and changes in instrument design aiming to improve the effectiveness of supervision within the social service sector. However, little attention has been given to the impact of different standard designs on supervision. The aim of this study is to empirically contribute to a broadened understanding of how standards in supervision are designed, and what implications the design has on the effectiveness of social service supervision. In this study, we employ a systematic and comparative analysis of the content (in terms of input, process, output and outcome aspects) and precision (low, medium and high) of 186 standards used in completed state supervisory decisions within two different types of social work: Investigation, Assessment and Decision-Making (IAD); and Treatment Work (TW) in Sweden during 2012. Contrary to expectations based on a supervision system ideal, the findings show that outcome aspects, i.e. factors related to long-term client effects, are rarely used and not more so in TW than in IAD supervision. In addition, the analysis of standard precision indicates that supervision of TW cannot identify deficiencies related to complex and subjectively experienced aspects to any greater extent than IAD. The overall results indicate that the supervisory instrument is primarily adapted to IAD-supervision, but is less suited to optimally covering central aspects of TW.

Social work and case management treatment time during inpatient spinal cord injury rehabilitation

BackgroundThere is a lack of published evidence regarding the amount and type of social work and case management (SW/CM) services that an individual with traumatic spinal cord injury (SCI) receives during acute inpatient rehabilitation. Such information is needed to assist in resource planning, benchmarking, and research on interventions and outcomes.MethodsAs part of the SCIRehab study social workers and case managers at six inpatient rehabilitation facilities documented details (including time spent) about the interventions provided to 600 patients with traumatic SCI during acute inpatient rehabilitation. Associations between patient and injury characteristics and time spent on these activities were examined.ResultsPatients received a mean total of 10 hours of SW/CM services, with a mean of 72.8 total minutes per week. The majority of the patients received SW/CM time spent on interdisciplinary conferencing on the patient's behalf (96%), discharge planning and services (89%), financial planning (67%), community/in-house services (66%), supportive counseling (56%), and initial assessment (54%). A minority of the patients received peer advocacy (12%), classes (24%), and education topics (30%). Total hours per stay and minutes per week varied by level of injury group. The most time per week was dedicated to patients with high tetraplegia ASIA Impairment Scale (AIS) A–C and the least to patients with C5–C8 AIS A–C. The patient and injury characteristics studied did not explain the variance seen in time spent on specific SW/CM services.ConclusionsThese descriptive data may be helpful in resource planning to anticipate and address individual patient needs and to plan for department-level training and hiring. These data also may pave the way to studying relationships of interventions with patient outcomes.

The Emergence of `Neo-Philanthropy'

New concepts have emerged in social work and in social policy over the past 10—15 years: `you must meet the clients where they stand', `help must be self-help' and `poverty is spiritual rather than material'. These axioms were core principles for the welfare of the poor that philanthropic and religious societies carried out in the late nineteenth century. Their current proliferation in all types of social work and in social policy discourse demonstrates a profound transformation in the discursive structures of welfare policy — that is, in the way social problems can be visualized and spoken about, in the way that clients can be observed and turned into objects of knowledge, and in the way that professionals can conceptualize such abstract notions as integration, citizenship, community and freedom. This article investigates the genealogy of modern social work to help us reconsider what kind of individual and what kind of community we are now attempting to create.

Historical development and characteristics of social work in today’s China

Social work education has experienced three stages since its introduction to China in the 1920s: introduction, abolishment and reinstatement. Theoretically, there are four types of social work in China: official–educational, official–practical, voluntary–educational and voluntary–practical. In practice, all four types of social work have not necessarily been embodied in each developmental stage, and the order of their historical development is not the same as the order of their logical development; i.e. some types are lacking in some of the stages. Each type of social work has its own characteristics, which are integrated into each development stage. Today, Chinese social work faces two major interrelated tasks: the professionalisation and the institutionalisation of social work. The former refers to the development of standardisation in Chinese social work; the latter has to do with the development of the social welfare institution in general and the development of institutional welfare in particular. In general, the dramatic development in Chinese social work largely depends on the accomplishment of the two tasks.

A New Type of Social Work

Previous articleNext article No AccessLetters to the EditorA New Type of Social WorkVictor S. YarrosVictor S. Yarros Search for more articles by this author PDFPDF PLUS Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail SectionsMoreDetailsFiguresReferencesCited by Social Service Review Volume 21, Number 1Mar., 1947 Article DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1086/636182 Views: 1Total views on this site PDF download Crossref reports no articles citing this article.