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Vztah korupčního jednání a státního aparátu

Author(s): Petr Krčál,Vladimír Naxera / Language(s): Czech Issue: 2/2015

The article deals with the phenomenon of political corruption. Political corruption is dominantly perceived as a potential threat for the stability of state apparatus. We try to present a different point of view on this phenomenon. Our concern is to provide an explanation of corruption through the mutual relation between corruption and state apparatus. From this point of view corruption can represent a possible (and sometimes useful) strategy of acting in particular social fields. We call this strategy “habitus of corruption”. This article should serve as a summary study of the phenomenon of political corruption as well as a possible source of theoretical and methodological inspiration in the field of study of corruption. The last goal of this paper is to demonstrate the suitability of an interdisciplinary approach in social sciences.

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Razvoj metropolskih policentričnih regija i koncept pametnog grada

Author(s): Vladimir Čavrak / Language(s): Croatian Issue: 1/2016

Rapid urbanization in all parts of the world has contributed to the fact that today more than 50% of the world population lives in cities. In the area of the Danube and the Adriatic-Ionian European macro-region we should expect the continuation of the process of further urbanization and population concentration. We can also expect continuation of littoralization. The increasing concentration of population ultimately raises the question of improving the quality of life in cities, as well as the question of their effectiveness in all dimensions. The rapid technological advances, particularly the development of computerization and telecommunications, offer new connectivity options, specialization and cooperation between cities through the concept of creating polycentric metropolitan regions and the concept of smart city. Since the cities have the role of drivers of development, in countries in the area of the Danube and Adriatic-Ionian European macro-region, it is possible to achieve broader development effects in the entire observed area through cooperation and smart specialization. To achieve this, it is necessary to actively promote the concept of globalization thinking, local action and regional planning.

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Čimbenici uspješne participacije u svakodnevnom životu osoba s ozljedom kralježnične moždine

Author(s): Lucija Mišić,Andreja Bartolac / Language(s): Croatian Issue: 1/2015

A qualitative study using the method of semi-structured interviews was conducted with the aim of exploring the factors of successful participation in the daily life of persons with spinal-cord injuries several years after the injury. The study included a deliberate sample of six adults with spinal-cord injuries who volunteered to participate. The criterion of their successfulness was active participation in daily life activities, independence, and involvement in the activities of an association that gathers people with spinal-cord injuries. Thematic analysis of the results was based on transcripts of the conversations. An analysis of isolated factors which are recognized as important by participants in achieving their independence, success, and life satisfaction was conducted. Factors that have contributed to successful participation are personality, support from the individual’s environment, the setting and achievement of goals on a daily basis, openness to new activities and challenges, active life before the injury, development of supporting technologies and the environment. The research reveals possible personal resources and other strategies that can contribute to successful rehabilitation, as well as participation in daily life after rehabilitation.

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Ekonomia społeczna a koncepcje polityki społecznej państwa. Model polski

Author(s): Maria Płonka / Language(s): Polish Issue: 2/2015

Miejsce ekonomii społecznej sytuuje się w trójkącie: państwo – rynek – społeczeństwo obywatelskie. Celem artykułu jest określenie miejsca ekonomii społecznej na tle polityki społecznej państwa. W artykule, w oparciu o analizę historyczną, dokonano przeglądu najważniejszych koncepcji polityki społecznej państwa (od liberalnych po socjalne) oraz określono znaczenie sektora ekonomii społecznej w rozwiązywaniu problemów społecznych we współczesnych realiach w Polsce. W konkluzji stwierdzono, że ekonomia społeczna jest komplementarna wobec polityki społecznej państwa, funkcjonuje w warunkach alokacji rynkowej lub redystrybucyjnej, wykazuje tendencje od biernego do aktywnego wsparcia

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Kapitał społeczny – ważny element lokalnego systemu wsparcia osób z niepełnosprawnością

Author(s): Ilona Fajfer-Kruczek / Language(s): Polish Issue: 20/2015

What is important in the local system of support for the disabled are institutions and organizations which render services of various range. In the labyrinth of instructions and procedures, the system of direct relations is of key importance, especially in the face of current difficulties and problems. Therefore, in the context of local space of the network of institutional support, the category of social capital, which is unique in every administrative area, becomes very important. The presented studies were conducted in the area of Cieszyn county, where the network of institutions and organizations for the disabled was analysed. Moreover, by means of the poll method, some information was collected concerning the subjective evaluation of functioning of the disabled in their own opinion and in the opinion of professionals working in this area. This has resulted in a description of the specificity of social capital, aimed at understanding its unique indices – not at establishing its level in such a narrow range.

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Rrazvoj i poteškoće sustava skrbi za starije osobe u Republici Hrvatskoj

Author(s): Ivana Dobrotić / Language(s): Croatian Issue: 1/2016

The paper analyses and considers the character and consequences of reforms in the eldercare system in Croatia, putting reforms in comparative perspective and taking into account the existing knowledge on the effects of similar reforms in European countries. The analysis begins with the period of socialism when the eldercare policy started to develop and continues through the 1990s marked by pluralization of service providers and the beginnings of decentralization, and the period of the 2000s until today marked by growing fragmentation of the system and the professionalization of non-institutional forms of care. The social risk of dependence in older age does not have the necessary attention of policymakers. Reforms of the past twenty years aimed at cost-containment in the eldercare system and the reduced role of the state, and were reflected in marketization, individualisation and professionalization of care. The eldercare system failed to cope with the growing demand for services and remains of residual character, fragmented and characterized by social assistance orientation. Future reforms will have to seriously address the sustainability of the eldercare system, in particular sustainable solutions of financing long-term care.

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Around the Bloc: Polish Women Protest Planned Abortion Ban

Author(s): TOL TOL / Language(s): English Issue: 10/04/2016

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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Around the Bloc: Daughter of Kadyrov Critic Assaulted

Author(s): TOL TOL / Language(s): English Issue: 10/18/2016

Her father, head of Russian MMA group, had suffered extensive backlash after criticizing MMA children fights in Chechnya.

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Asmeninė ir socialinė subjektyvi gerovė Lietuvoje

Author(s): Audronė Telešienė / Language(s): Lithuanian Issue: 4/2015

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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Transformacja polskiej polityki społecznej a członkostwo w Unii Europejskiej

Author(s): Lucyna Prorok / Language(s): Polish Issue: 56/2016

The social policy became formed on background of deep system-changes, which took place in Poland at the beginning 1990s. The deepening political and economic crisis, open social conflict brought to breakup of political system and the beginning of system-transformation. The conversion from socialist system to capitalistic market system caused radical changes in all structures of the state. Necessary was the reorganization political, economic and social system of the country level: managements with institutions, the organization of rules of the activity of the economy and also inside-social relations. Instead the accessional period before the membership in the European Union is the transformation targeting: the economic homoeostasis of the home economy, the execution of transformations in the sphere legally – institutional and linking of the cooperation economic and political with states of Westerly Europe. The cumulation of different political, economic and social factors determined the direction of the process transformation and modernization in Poland, but also formed new conceptions of assignments and aims of the social policy. Now, the question is: how much following modernization processes they changed the social policy realized in Poland, leaving from the socialist model and arriving at the European Social Model.

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Social Work Professionals Empowering Delinquent Youth's Resilience within the Criminal Justice System

Author(s): Diana Biriș,Claudia Feher / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2024

The resilience of delinquent youth within the juvenile justice system is an area of growing interest and importance, especially for social workers involved in the field of custodial and non-custodial criminal sanctions. This research seeks to provide scientific explanations of the facts and psycho-social processes in the lives of delinquent minors, during the execution of a custodial or non-custodial educational measure, as a resource for developing practical intervention strategies by the social work professionals. The aim of the research is to explore the resilience of delinquent minors executing an educational measure while highlighting factors likely to inhibit or favor their resilience. The sample comprises 60 juvenile delinquents (30 under custodial measures and 30 under non-custodial educational measure). The research methods employed include focus group interviews, analysis of personal files, and brief individual interviews. Our research highlights the role of individual, family and contextual factors in shaping the resilience of delinquent youth. Understanding the interaction between these factors is crucial for professionals to design effective interventions that enhance resilience and reduce juvenile delinquency. The present research enhances social work practice by deepening comprehension of adaptive capacities and potential for positive change among delinquent youth. The discoveries hold significant implications for both policy and practice within the juvenile justice system, highlighting the importance of cultivating resilience and facilitating successful rehabilitation. Ultimately, this research endeavors to facilitate the creation of evidence-based interventions by social workers, empowering delinquent youth to overcome adversity and build better futures.

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Building a Digital Literacy Index of Social Work Students through a European Project

Author(s): Anne Philippart,Laurence Fond-Harmant,Salim Megherbi,Pascale Pereaux,Mihaela Gavrilă-Ardelean / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2024

How to draw up an inventory of the digital skills of the social work student community? Are digital skills sufficient to articulate the digital tool with the environment of professional support for beneficiaries? The challenges faced by social work professionals due to the digitalization of European society lead to the need to reflect on social work education in the face of this reality. Then, how should student communities is trained to best prepare for their future professions? Establishing a diagnosis of their digital skills, which are based on the prescriptions and values of social work, is an intellectual output of the European DLSI project, Digital Learning Social Intervention (2021-2024). This project brings together 6 partners from 5 European countries: Belgium, France, Greece, Luxembourg, and Romania. It is co-financed by ERASMUS+ "Strategic Partnership". This article proposes a conceptual and methodological framework for developing a "Digital (fr) agility Index" useful for teaching and continuing education in the field of social work.

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Navigating Independent Living: Oportunities, Chalenges and Succes Strategies in Disabled Human Resource Management Oportunities

Author(s): Adela Gusan (Crăciun) / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2024

One of the main independent living instrumentş for adults with disability is employment. Once a person with disability is employed that person has taken the first steps towards an indepent life. This is why it is essential for the social work practitioner to understand how employment of persons with disabilities truly works. Given current realities persons with disability are part of the general workforce, they do not work only in protected workplaces anymore, this means managers have to take measures towards inclusive management. In order to correctly promote his clients rights the social work practitioner has to understand that inclusive management is not the same with diversity management even though the two concepts kind of include each other. This article’s main purpose is to describe the opportunities of the employer who employs persons with disabilities, the challenges that come with inclusive management and also present success strategies that have helped both employers and employees with disability to achieve success. This article is planned to be an instrument for the social work practitioner when planning his/her intervention that has as target the employment of his client, who happens to be a person with disabilities.

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Effects of Parental Migration on Adolescents' Self-esteem and Anxiety

Author(s): Denisa Rîjniţă,Anca Luștrea / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2024

Many children are raised by parents working abroad, and this parental migration can impact the mental health of left behind children. In the context of high migration rates in Romania, understanding the consequences of this growing phenomenonis crucial. Our study aimed to investigate how various factors related to parental migration impact the self-esteemand anxiety levels of high school adolescent susing a non-experimental comparative research design. We surveyed 227 adolescent senrolled in Romanian highschools, including adolescents with one or both parents working abroad and those with parents who are still residing at home. The adolescents` self-esteem was assessed using the Rosenberg scale (1965) and their anxiety level using the Hamilton scale (1959) through a 24-question questionnaire. The analysis revealed that adolescents withneit her parent working abroad reported higher self-esteem and lower anxiety levels compared to those with one or both migrant parents. Additionally, self-esteem and anxiety levels varied based on the relationships with the care givers left behind but not on their participation in counseling services. The sefindings suggest that tailore dcounselingand support programs in schools or social assistance institutions can help address the mental health needs of at-risky outh with migrant parents. Such programs can benefit students, parents, care givers and teachers, potentially mitigating the negative effects of parental migration. This social and psychological counseling programs should be designed and implemented to offer indiscriminate support to children of migrant parents, regardless of the children'sage, duration of parentdeparture, or thepresence of behavioral or emotionalsymptoms. These programs should be first preventive and then curative.

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Impactul pandemiei COVID-19 asupra copiilor din familii vulnerabile

Author(s): Liana Teușdea,Lavinia Anton,Andreia Iacob,Larisa Molnar,Felicia Furtos / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 2/2024

This study aims to examine the consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic on children from vulnerable backgrounds. The pandemic has had a significant impact on vulnerable children and families, many of whom have been affected by school closures and lack of access to quality education. Vulnerable families also experienced difficulties in providing for their basic needs such as food and medical care. The objective of the study was to identify and explore the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on children from vulnerable environments in the municipality of Oradea, the study participants being 12 parents of children who benefit from the services of a day care centre. The method used to collect the data was the interview-based survey. Through this approach, we wanted to analyze how these families were affected by the changes induced by the pandemic, focusing on the specific needs and difficulties of their children in a context of increased vulnerability. The results of the study highlight the difficulties encountered by both children and their families regarding the social isolation imposed during the pandemic. Also, the pandemic has generated significant changes in the emotional and mental plane of children, who experience fear in the context of the pandemic period. However, the parents made considerable efforts to be with the children, offering them support and encouraging them with the belief that this period will pass and that things will return to normal.

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Benefits of Psychosocial Services for Cancer Patients

Author(s): Rodica Gabriela Enache,Mariana Uță,Marinela Grigore / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2024

Contemporary society is aware that there are different types of diseases that people try to live with. Acceptance of the disease, managing emotions at the time of diagnosis, reducing worries are goals of psychotherapeutic program for cancer patients. The overall objective of this research is to identify and measure factors that contribute to activating resilience in cancer patients and their families and to evaluate the effectiveness of psycho-socio-medical services. The group of participants will consist of approximately 10 patients diagnosed with cancer, enrolled in social programs for the chronically ill, some of them being residents of Năvodari, Constanța, Romania. We will apply to these patients instruments to assess their emotional state, satisfaction and quality of life participating in socio-psycho-oncological support groups. The following questionnaires were applied in the three stages of the research: initial evaluation, evaluation after 6 months and evaluation after 12 months:Questionnaire on Distress in Cancer Patients-short form (QSC-R10); The Depression, Anxiety and Stress Scale – 21 Items (DASS-21); The Beck Depression Inventory (BDI-II). The comparison of the results obtained by applying the assessment instruments during the first year of operation of the psycho-oncological support group reveals a significant difference between the scores obtained at the first assessment and the scores obtained at the end of the year, which validates our belief that the group meetings, the psycho-oncological intervention methods applied and the psycho-social and socio-medical information decreased the patients' distress, increased their ability to adapt to the new life context, and increased their quality of life. Integrated approach to the needs of the person, in relation to his/her socio-economic situation, health status, level of education and social living environment, through Social Services are proactive. Based on the needs of each person, social services can have a broad reach, including people diagnosed with cancer, their family members and people who have overcome the disease.

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Innovations in Social Work Practice. A Presentation of Two Case Studies from Romania

Author(s): Ioana Prodan / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2024

This paper briefly presents two case studies of disruptive innovation in social work practice from Romania, namely the introduction of social services for children with their parents working abroad (Save the Children Romania) and of the minimum package of services for children and families (DGASPC Bacău in collaboration with UNICEF Romania). The analysis of disruptive innovations is useful for understanding how certain initiatives have led to changes in social work legislation and, subsequently, the introduction of new practices. Social service providers are innovating to find solutions to problems such as unmet social needs or existing pressure on the social work system.

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VIOLENCE WITHIN THE FAMILY

Author(s): Mădălina Frunză / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2024

Domestic violence represents a worldwide problem, being present in the privacy of many families. This issue is viewed and treated differently, from one country to another, depending on the social, legal, cultural, and political codes of the society. The necessity of empirical research in the field of providing services to victims of domestic violence is highlighted both by the numerous changes imposed through the regulatory framework and by the need to have an overview of the quality of services offered by the state system. The mixed research (quantitative and qualitative - utilizing secondary data analysis and the case study method) was conducted at the Center for Social Services for Adults in Difficulty within the General Directorate of Social Assistance and Child Protection in Iași throughout the year 2022. The present research aimed to identify the consequences of domestic violence on nuclear families. The study aimed to identify the triggering factors of domestic violence, determine the main types of violence to which victims are subjected, and identify the role and importance of social services in the lives of victims. The paper highlights the importance and role of social services offered to victims, which will be quantified over time, as well as the need to improve the current system.

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DEVELOPMENT OF PROFESSIONAL SUPERVISION IN SOCIAL WORK IN THE REPUBLIC OF MOLDOVA: PRACTICES AND DIFFICULTIES

Author(s): Sergiu Oceretnîi / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2024

Professional supervision in social work in the Republic of Moldova is a relatively new field, the first mechanism in the field being approved in 2008. This article presents the results of research carried out on the subject of professional supervision in the field of social work in the Republic of Moldova, which allowed highlighting the implementation practices, needs met by these meetings and some gaps. The supervision activity is carried out in the form of a cascade, especially applying internal supervision. Also, studies have established that group supervision sessions are most often held, which also serve a reporting function.

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Izvori i značaj socijalne podrške tokom trudnoće

Author(s): Erna Čizmo,Amela Dautbegović / Language(s): Bosnian Issue: 6/2020

Social support refers to various aspects of social relations, therefore it includes mechanisms that can protect the individual from the negative effects of stress. Social support and social relations are considered important because they contribute to improving the quality of health. The results of the research indicate that the mother’s health condition, as well as the level of symptoms of depression and anxiety, and the successful adjustment to parenthood are associated with a higher level of social support during pregnancy. The aim of this study is to provide an overview of knowledge about social support and its role and importance during pregnancy, and to examine the perceived social support by close people among pregnant women in the Sarajevo Canton. The study, which was conducted in May 2019, involved 94 pregnant women (N = 94) in the Sarajevo Canton. In order to obtain information on how pregnant women in the Sarajevo Canton perceive social support, the Perceived Social Support Questionnaire was applied, and data on individual socio-demographic characteristics were collected. Qualitative analysis of the collected data yielded results that indicate that pregnant women in the Sarajevo Canton often have at their disposal various forms of social support from close people in their environment. Ultimately, it is of the most importance for pregnant women to have people who will encourage them during the stressful period of pregnancy. The practical implications of the work are primarily related to the possibilities of planning and implementing preventive activities aimed at improving the quality of mental and physical health of pregnant women.

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