Research and development

Main research and development topics by periods

Concepts and methods (since 1969):

- voluntary work
- group work
- counselling
- work with families
- qualitative methods
- action research
- street work
- community work (community development, community animation)

Innovations and plurality in the provision of social care (since 1985):

- youth camps
- self-help groups
- restructuring of institutions
- foster care
- risk analysis
- safe houses
- help phonelines
- group homes
- work with refugees
- supervision
- individual planning and direct funding
- harm reduction
- formation of groups, movements, societies and associations

Theory and methodology (since 1992):

- organisation and administration studies
- cybernetics of social work
- social work with families
- community mental health
- disability studies
- gender studies
- ethnicity studies
- narrative and analytical methods

Systematisation (since 2000):

- residential structures of social protection
- evaluation instruments and procedures
- history of social work
- new tasks for centres of social work, new standards of practice
- scientific, professional and ethical perspectives in social work
- renovation of undergraduate and postgraduate studies

Contact:

print page