Prevention interventions in socio-pedagogical social work
Prevention interventions in socio-pedagogical social work

Summary/Abstract: Global economic, cultural and ideological processes in society affect social work and the welfare regimes in developed countries. In their day-to-day work, social work professionals are confronted with the impact of unemployment, the widening income gap, social vulnerability and disadvantageous living conditions. In contemporary social work practice, there is a call for effective models of practice that promote practitioners’ autonomy and their abilities to give support that is more preventive, to their clients. This article reports on some developments in social pedagogy within the context of social work issues and offers insights on practical preventive social interventions. It identifies four bases for operating schemes in social pedagogy within social work practice: empowering strategies, an appreciation of clients’ cultural and ethnic preferences, responsive communication and promoting collaboration, along with cultivating alliances with significant actors around the client. Te potential of these operating schemes as tools might be applied to varied preventive interventions. Te article concludes that these bases within socio-pedagogical social work can extend the capacities of welfare services by changing the dominant discourses shaping many contemporary welfare service contexts, as well as by the workers themselves supporting their clients’ life worlds

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