PRIMJENA KREATIVNIH TEHNIKA U SOCIJALNOM RADU SA DJECOM SA POREMEĆAJIMA U PONAŠANJU
APPLICATION OF CREATIVE TECHNIQUES IN SOCIAL WORK WITH CHILDREN WITH BEHAVIORAL DISORDERS

Summary/Abstract: The personality of each individual, in itself, is unique and complex. In their daily work, social workers and other professionals in helping professions encounter different personalities, life situations and challenges. This is precisely what requires an innovative and different approach from experts. An innovative approach to work is inseparable from creative techniques, which consist of a series of diverse procedures that enable the awareness of feelings, ideas and perceptions with the help of media and metaphor. As such, they are widely used in the profession of social work, especially in work with children with behavioral disorders. Every individual has creative potential. Activating it and improving the creative capacities of children with behavioral disorders, they get to know and discover states and emotions in a more creative way, which is different from the rational-verbal one. Creative techniques provide children with behavioral disorders the opportunity to discover their potential, to become familiar with their emotions and feelings, and to present the problem they are facing in a different way. In order to be quality and good experts for each individual client, and especially in order to adapt their approach to children and young people, social workers should be professional, creative, but also confident in the appropriateness of choosing a specific creative technique. The paper deals with social work with children with behavioral disorders, creative techniques in social work, with a special emphasis on the possibility of applying creative techniques in working with children with behavioral disorders.

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