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Past award recipients have returned the state distinction because of decision to honor infamous xenophobe, who is close to the ruling party.
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Millions of Polish women are expected to take part in strikes – and to the streets – to protest a new anti-abortion proposal.
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Unions plan more strikes, say time is ripe to officially end austerity measures brought in during the financial crash.
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Police, troops guarding Tashkent hospital where the country’s only post-independence leader is being treated.
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Both the beginning and the end of human life are connected to many moral dilemmas. The discussion becomes especially emotional when we deal with the situation of parents (or sometimes just a mother) who decide about their baby’s life in its prenatal phase of development. The in vitro procedure itself still gives rise to a number of doubts in some circles. Especially the multiple embryo transfer exposes the mother to a potential stress of deciding about the further course of pregnancy. To be more precise: some patients are persuaded into selective abortion.Polish law allows abortion in three cases. Still, the act of 1997 does not seem to be precise enough.On the one hand there is a threat of it being abused, on the other –there are difficulties when it comes to it being executed. Due to the medical advancement issues that were obvious twenty years ago need to be newly evaluated (e.g. the age of an infant capable of surviving outside the mother’s womb is gradually decreasing).It also seems that it is necessary to look upon terms such as abortion,termination, lethal defects, overzealous therapy, abandoning overzealous therapy, euthanasia (active, passive), euthanasia attitude, hospice care attitude, chronic condition, terminal phase, terminal state, palliative care.It becomes crucial especially now when Poland is faced with projects of opposing legal acts: those delegalizing abortion completely and those allowing for complete freedom of it. Therefore, a sound bio-ethical discussion is in order, such that will allow for the optimal standpoint.At the same time it would be beneficial to concentrate on the analogy education because, as distant and unrealistic those ultimate matter may seem now, they concern every human being.
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Some of the main aims when working with Roma children are the development of their personality, socialization into society and, at the same time, the developmentof creative thinking and activity. For these key objectives, our society mainly uses education. Nevertheless, the above mentioned processes are not without problems. One of the most serious and widely discussed problems associated with Roma ethnicity is the fact that the Roma population is lagging behind. In Slovakia, the Roma people are most affected by social exclusion. Roma children are classified as socially disadvantaged children. The aim of this paper is to point out the possibilities of art therapy when working with children from a socially disadvantaged background. At the same time, we will talk about the basis of art therapy with the Roma ethnicity and clarify the importance of doing art therapy with children from socially disadvantaged backgrounds.
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The article aims to highlight the main changes made by technology in the practices of social work. There are different types of technology based interventions implemented at an international level in terms of their effectiveness. The paper refers to the role of technology resources (computer, telephone, internet etc.) used in the field of social work practice. The last part of this article captures the results of a qualitative research, using a computerized software (Atlas.ti) to analyze the way in which the social work professionals from Romania integrate technological resources in their social actions. The international research studies and the results of this research undertake once again the need to implement and evaluate the effectiveness of technology based interventions. Also, the conclusions indicate the need of stimulating new research and intervention which value information and communication technologies in order to improve the outcomes of social work practice.
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This paper analyses subjective wellbeing in Lithuania. Data enables analysis of both – subjectively perceived personal and social wellbeing. The article is based on the European Social Survey data from the 6th round, Lithuanian population. Wherever comparability is possible, the Lithuanian data from the 5th and 4th ESS rounds are also employed. The personal well-being analysis is based on the hedonic approach. The cognitive and affective components of well-being are addressed. For the analysis of social subjective well-being, several variables are used: subjective socio-economic position, social optimism, social relations and the level of active involvement. As data shows, the levels of subjectively perceived personal and social wellbeing in Lithuania are only average. It should be noted that among all components of well-being, only an affective component of personal well-being and the bonding social capital could be treated as of high levels.
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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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Studies in large cities revealed that indoor air pollution concentrations are at such levels where it can cause serious health impacts. The main source of the release of substances in the environment is the emission of gases (produced during the combustion process) such as carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide, sulphur oxides, nitrogen oxides, ammonia and others. In this study the assessment of indoor air quality in 26 places in Prishtina city were investigated and the main objective of this study was monitoring of the air quality through the determination of gases concentration of C02, C0, N0x and S02. Also the ratio of CO2/CO2+CO was calculated. Concentrations of CO2, CO, SO2 and NOx were determined using “Dräger” instrument, model “X-am 7000 digital gas monitor”. Environmental risk assessment of air quality was done by comparing the obtained results with air WHO standards. During that period were found a permanent presence of some toxic gases in high concentrations in indoor areas. Results show that CO2 levels were ranged 300-4000 ppmv. The concentration of CO was ranged 0.6-17 ppmv and was reported to be under limits value in all locations. Also concentrations of SO2 and NOx (except air sample S6) were reported to be under WHO air limits value. According to gases concentration, many locations show values characteristic for highly and extremely contaminated indoor places.
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This Handbook presents the main results of an in-depth evaluation study of the legal, policy and practical frameworks for assistance to and reintegration of child victims of trafficking in six EU Member States – Austria, Bulgaria, Hungary, Italy, Slovakia, and Sweden. The three reports included in this Handbook are based on three standardised methodologies for examination of legal and policy frameworks, for evaluation of programmes for assistance and re/integration of child victims of trafficking and for indentification of good practices in this area. The reports analyse the relevance of legal frameworks for the needs of trafficked children and the effectiveness of services for such children in different areas of assistance, such as: identification of trafficked children, appointment of a guardian, individual case assessment, regularisation of status, interim care and protection, durable solutions and longterm re/integration. The reports offer a comparative analysis of the effectiveness of assistance and reintegration programs and discuss identified challenges that need to be addressed in countries of both destination and origin in order to assure better protection and assistance to trafficked children across the EU.
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Volunteering has been studied in various aspects - competencies gained while volunteering, the meaning of the volunteering for the organisations, the impact of volunteering on mental or physical health (Plagnol and Huppert, 2010), happiness interface with volunteering or motivation for volunteering. Volunteering is recognised as a field of learning, but all researches studying education or learning in volunteering are developed with the topics, like competencies, employability, moving out from learnd helplessnes etc. This study is aimed to research multilayerity of volunteering and experience experience of volunteers in social help field. The research is phenomenological and not focusing in any foreseen objectives, oriented to the voluneters experience. According to phenomenological approach research methodology was chosen Interpreatative Phenomenologiacl Analysis. In this article is presented part of the research, giving deeper view on one one of the superordinates theme, with the aim: to present the exclusion and growth experiences of young adults in the long-term and full time volunteering. In the study participated 6 research participants, 3 young man and 3 young woman in the age 20 to 30 years old and to collect the data of the research were used semi-structured interviews. Conclusions of the study, presented in this article shows, 1) that volunteers experience volunteering as changing and multi-faceted phenomenon that reveals the experience of anxiety, fear, disappointment, helplessness, limitation, volunteering for a long time and volunteering on a daily basis; 2) Surviving uncertainty and helplessness in volunteering brings volunteers experience closer to those whom they are helping, experienceing their suffering personaly as the suffering of the volunteers. Resaerch participant were as if ejected from wished and usual experience to unwished and tension raising experience through excluding struggle experince. 3) Exclusion experience in volunteering for research participant opens requestion and evaluation of the existence meaning. In exclusion experience young adults idealized imige of volunteering switched into reality of volunteering with death, illneses, poverty, conflicts and other helpless situations of help recieveing people. The experience of absurd and nonsense for the research participants opend the opportunity to find a new meaning of volunteering and personal existence or absurd and nonsense experience for research particiapants become continues experience of volunteering, having the meening of Sisifus suffering.
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There has not been enough attention given to the topic of social security in Slovak psychological research; although the state of social protection, legal aspects of social security or themes of social services, social policy and social care are well described by economists, sociologists, lawyers or social workers. The article provides an overview of the current knowledge of social security attitudes as attitudes have been a research topic of social psychology for a long time. Social security benefits and services provided by welfare states are linked to many predictable or unpredictable events; such as unemployment, illness, birth of a child or retirement. The questions that could arise are: who has a positive or negative attitude towards providing social security benefits and services?; who deserves the help?; why and to what extent?; and if there are any causal differences between European countries. This review is divided into four main parts. Firstly, a brief description of the social security system in the Slovak Republic is provided. The social security system consists of social insurance, state social support, and social assistance. They are based upon dissimilar principles, i.e. the principle of merit, equality and need, respectively. Within the European Union, the coordination of the social security system is applied. However, due to the specific conditions in every country, it is not possible to establish a unified social security system yet. Secondly, the paper describes and summarizes different types of welfare states in the context of chosen typologies. It begins with the typology of Esping-Andersen (1990), Leibfried, (1992), Ferrera (1996), and Bonoli (1997) and continues with recent research that lead to the question about numbers and different types of welfare states e.g. Arts and Gellisen (2001) or Gryaznova (2013). Thirdly, the definition of social security attitudes in relation to Fishbein´s and Ajzen´s theory is presented. The possibility of categorizing welfare attitudes into three levels, according to the degree of generality, is outlined. The most general category is welfare state attitudes, more specific one are attitudes towards different types of welfare state. These are: Social democratic, Conservative, Liberal, and Radical. It is possible to divide people into attitudinal types and analyse their attitudes or specific traits. At the most specific level, there are attitudes towards providing benefits and services to different groups of beneficiaries, such as pensioners, the unemployed or single parents. Finally, the results of research on determinants of social security attitudes carried out are described. The large amount of research is built on survey databases such as the European Social Survey or International Social Survey Program.
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The study examines the structure and resources of the social care network created by Hungarian nonprofit organizations in Transylvania, based on an online survey. It describes the structure of the field, the organizational background of the organizations, their target groups and the social problems targeted, analyzes the infrastructural, financial and human resources of the organizations, and how they build and operate their professional relationships.The empirical background of the study is an on-line survey, during which the leaders of 200 registered non-profit organizations answered our questions in the spring of 2015.
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This report is the preliminary research work under the Punishment vs. Treatment: the Situation of Drug Users in Prison initiative which main output is a forthcoming comparative analysis of the treatment of drug users in Bulgarian and Norwegian prisons. The study was prepared by the University of Oslo and it overviews the general context on Norway – general information on the country and its criminal justice system, policy and legislation on drugs explaining what are the perimeters of drug restriction and what are the national policies towards drug use. This information is illustrated with statistics on crime rates and drug crime in particular. It also presents the alternative sanctions available for drug users. Furthermore, the reports looks at prison population using drugs and sentenced to drug-related crimes – what are the principles by which prison authorities are guided in their attitude towards this group of inmates and what programs are available for them in Norwegian prisons.
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