Congress of social work - Portorož 2002
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Program

Thursday, 17. 10.

9.00
Arrival and registration

10.00
Opening

The congress will be opened by the President of the Republic Slovenia Milan Kučan. The participants will be greeted by Jože Mencinger, Rector of the University of Ljubljana, Christine Labonte-Roset, Chairperson of the European association of schools of social work, Simona Ratajc, Chairperson of the Association of social workers of Slovenia, and Vito Flaker, Dean of the School of social work.
11.00-11.20
Break

Thursday, 17. 10.

11.20
Grand Hall
Plenary lectures
Global – local – social

Gabi Čačinovič Vogrinčič
The language of social work

Birgit Rommelspacher
Social work as a human rights profession

Tanja Rener
Personal is political (30 years after)

Thursday, 17. 10.

14.30 
Grand Hall
Major lectures
Social work – the paradigm of new interdisciplinarity



Blaž Mesec
Micro-mezzo-macro: expansion, integration, specificity of social work

Alenka Šelih
Social work and the (penal) law

Maria Adamik
Simulated client research in natural setting

Jolanta Pivoriene
Role of social work profession in building civil society in Lithuania

White Hall
Social in global

Srečo Dragoš
Metaethics

Igor Pribac
Postfordism and the citizens’ income

Tom Schmid
Inclusion-exclusion as a problem of social work

Paul Stubbs, Goga Flaker
NGOs, globalisation and social work in South Eastern Europe

16.00-16.30
Break

Thursday, 17. 10.

16.30
Sections 1
Grand Hall
Research 

Bojana Mesec
The signification of research and planning of voluntary work

Gabriela Simetinger
Analysis of the physician-patient relation and social worker

Mateja Tanjšek 
How patients with multiple sclerosis experience life

Božena Ronner

Views of secondary school students on sexuality, family planning and non-religiosity

Magdalena Žakelj, Darja Vidmar
Path to independence after head injury

Barbka Rupar
Team work in the Centre for the blind and weak-sighted Škofja Loka

Mateja Bitenc, Jože Ramovš, Jože Bajzek, Simona Hvalič, Alenka Lokar, Špela Strniša 
Late infancy, socialisation and future roles

Polona Selič
Protection of children from sexual abuse

Thursday, 17. 10.

16.30
White Hall
Interdisciplinarity

Branko Lobnikar, Milan pagon
Police work and social work: co-operation or contradiction

Mira Kačavenda
Psychosocial help for crime victims

Vanja Badovinac
Health promotion in the workplace and the new role of social worker

Jože Hren, Milan Krek
National programme in the field of drugs 2002-2008

Melita Žontar, Nino Rode
Multidisciplinary treatment of addicts

Ciril Klanjšček, Vanja Badovinac
The role and meaning of social work in health promotion

Igor Spreizer
Community social work: the psychiatric system

Meri Moderndorfer, Petra Rezar
Deafness is invisible until you speak

Thursday, 17. 10.

16.30
Green Hall
Employment and the impact of globalisation 

Barbara Kresal
Unemployment and the employment of the youth

Janja Jerman
Quality of work-life of workers in tourism

Andreja Črnko
Impact of globalisation on the employment of the persons who are difficult to employ

Ivica Matko, Slavica Marjančič, Jana Vogelnik Kranjc, Mirjana Česen
Quality of employment under special conditions in psychosocial perspective

Anka Čufer, Aleksandra Tabaj
Employment of invalids in invalid companies

Bojan Kern
Youth programmes in Slovenia and the recommendations of the European Commission

Bojan Regvar
The role of social care in increasing international competitiveness

Thursday, 17. 10.

16.30
Red Hall
Workshop: Effects of the Bologna process for the social work education in Europe 
Moderators: Christine Labonte-Roset, Nol Reverda, Isidor Wallimann

Thursday, 17. 10.

18.15 
Panel: Telling, listening, recording and changing stories in social work

Moderator: Mojca Urek


Participants: Lev Kreft, Rastko Močnik, Mirjana Ule, Vito Flaker, Darja Zaviršek, Bogdan Lešnik, Lea Šugman Bohinc

Thursday, 17. 10.

20.30 
Social gathering

Friday, 18.10. 

8.30 
Grand Hall
Plenary lectures:  
Against exclusion


Shulamit Ramon 
Deinstitutionalisation for social work and social work education

Darja Zaviršek 
Internal contradictions of social work in post-modern societies

Tanja Lamovec 
The impact of exclusion from work on mental health users
10.00-10.15 
Break

Friday, 18.10.

10.30 
White Hall
Major lectures
Development of community services

Elena Pečarič
Traps of the professionalisation of personal assistance

Frančiška Premzel
Regulating contacts between the aggressive father and the child from the perspective of the victim

Bernard Stritih
Teams for help to individuals and families in social care

Friday, 18.10.

10.30 
Grand Hall
Major lectures
New exclusions and the practice of inclusion 

Ann Davis
Promoting inclusionary practice in schools of social work

Rea Maglajlić
Participative research of education in social work

Jelka Zorn
Antiracist perspective in social work
 

Bojan Dekleva
The culture of manhood: young immigrants of the second generation in Slovenia

Friday, 18.10.

12.15 
Sekcije 2
Grand Hall
Social work and the media 

Dragan Petrovec
The media and violence


Janez Mekinc, Mara Ovsenik
Doubts about the possibility to fight racism and xenophobia on the internet


Mojca Pajnik 
The media coverage of marginalized groups

Darja Kuzmanič Korva
Social acceptance and the coverage of people’s distress in the media

Friday, 18.10.

12.15
White Hall
Panel: Psychosocial construction of help and co-operation for the 21st century
Moderator: Blaž Mesec

Participants: Bernard Stritih, Leonida Kobal, Gabi Čačinovič Vogrinčič, Lea Šugman Bohinc, Miran Možina, Vito Flaker 

Friday, 18.10.

12.15
Green Hall 
Panel: Dileme in dobra praksa materinskih domov in zatočišč
Moderators: Tea Smonker in Frančiška Premzel

Participants: Lorena Božac Deželan, Renata Klenovšek, Suzi Kvas, Liliana Lesar, Evita Leskovšek, Jelka Zorn

Friday, 18.10.

12.15
Red Hall
Workshop: Facilitating action learning in diverse teams and partnerships
Moderators: Margaret Page, Sonja Čandek

12.15
Metropol Hotel 
Workshop: Connecting social work and art therapies in work with the users
Moderator: Željka Augustinovič

13.00-14.30 
Lunch

Friday, 18.10.

14.30 
Sekcije 3 
Grand Hall
Manners of community work

Miran Možina
Permanent community care for mental health users: a case presentation

Tomislav Dadič
Sports as a tool of social work

Viktorija Bevc
Experiences of barrenness and parenting somebody else’s child

Polona Pagon, Špela Ulaga
Effectiveness of an additional education programme at the Centre of social work Ljubljana Moste-Polje

Marjana Velikanje
The child with special needs and the family

Vera Grebenc
Ethnography of the heroin crisis

Mirjam Bartol-Polončič
A case of family treatment within a programme of psychosocial help

Igor Spreizer
Crisis teams: an alternative to the hospitalisation of a mental health user

Friday, 18.10.

14.30
White Hall
Community programmes

Irena Majzelj Usenik, Ksenija Ramovš
Solving problems in the counselling service for alcoholism, Ljubljana

Cveto Uršič, Tanja Hočevar
Invalid organisation: special social programmes – good practice

Marija Serdoner Lavrenčič
Presentation of a family service programme

Ida Bulatović
Centre for the prevention of dependence: a social care programme

Jasmina Breznik
Quality of normalisation in a group home for mentally handicapped

Klavdija Poropat, Emil Bohinc
Pe rsonal assistance from the standpoint of employment

Darja Tomc
Programmes of social prevention in the Centre of social work Maribor

Evaluation of the personal help service in centres of social work
Darja Kuzmanič Korva, Jožica Matjašič, Irena Šinigoj Batistič, Melita Žontar, Simona Ratajc, Anica Miklič, Milka Merc, Jože Peklaj, Nino Rode, Renata Brdar

Jože Ramovš
Local social network for quality aging

Friday, 18.10.

14.30
Green Hall
Self-help

Branka Knific
‘Izvir’: a programme of good practice with tradition

Tone Kladnik
Intergenerational solidarity as a two-way process

Mateja Eržen
Network of intergenerational programmes for quality aging in Trbovlje

Irma Renar
A self-help group and medical social work

Ksenija Ramovš
Social work and self-help groups

Danica Matjanec, Zmaga Prošt
National network of old people’s self-help groups

Sonja Hočevar, Lilijana Tomažič
A contribution of the profession to the parents’ self-help groups in Vipava

Cvijeta Pahljina
Joy of life

 

Friday, 18.10.

14.30
Red Hall
Social work and institutions

Snežana Vidovič, Darko Krajnc
Counselling in higher education: initiatives and experiences

Mirjana Erjavec
Effective satisfaction of the needs of vulnerable groups in the educational system

Danijela Devčić
Social work and post-penal activities in Slovenian prisons

Jana Mali
Quality of life in the home for the aged Preddvor

Simona Svetina
Independence and the values of old people in different special contexts

David Novak, Kristina Podbevšek
A clock without hands

Viktorija Pečnikar Oblak, Nataša Aničič
How the staff of the institution Hrastovec-Trate experiences innovations

Friday, 18.10.

14.30
Metropol Hotel
Panel: Solving problems together with students with special needs
Moderator: Stojan Povh

Participants: Andreja Koler Križe, Ljubica Lukan, Tina Priveršek, Danica Starkl, Andreja Trček
16.00-16.30 
Break

Friday, 18.10.

16.30 
Sekcije 4
Grand Hall
Critique of the practices of exclusion

Marinka Kapelj
Withdrawing the legal capacity from the people with difficulties in mental health

Ciril Klanjšček
Social exclusion and social regulation

Špela Urh
Social exclusion of the Roma in Bela krajina

Simona Gerenčer
Social exclusion of the deaf in the Republic Slovenia

Tatjana Dolinšek
The deaf and the hard of hearing in the labour market

Milanka Miković
Suicide: causes and prevention (the Sarajevo experience)

Mojca Urek
Social work and sexual minorities

Sonja Robnik
Equal opportunities for men and women: the Slovenian reality

Friday, 18.10.

16.30
White Hall
Programmes of inclusion

Janja Babič
‘Little Knight’, the foundation for helping young convalescents from cancer

Marino Kačič
The trauma of incurable outcome: critical periods and personal help

Simona Hvalič
The role of family members in the care for the aged

Andreja Bogataj
A self-help group for the people with protracted difficulties in mental health

Rok Ovsenik
Tourist service as an element of quality of life of marginalized groups

Tone Kladnik
Treating alcoholism within a centre of social work

Sonja Plohl
Vitamins: a day centre for children in the Centre of social work Slovenj Gradec

Janez Balkovec
Financial possibilities and personal social security

Friday, 18.10.

16.30
Red Hall
Workshop: Masculinities and Femininities, Violence and Peacefulness
Moderators: Tom Davies, Margaret Page

Red Hall
Workshop: Group dynamic, attachment processes: the unconscious and the social
Moderator: John Southgate

Friday, 18.10.

16.30
Green Hall
Reflection of the assumptions of social work
 

Marija Ovsenik
Management in the time of change

Jože Ovsenik
Organisation and management in the work of the social worker

Lea Šugman Bohinc
Cybernetics of the second order in the science of social work

Rezka Osredkar
Interpretation of social work according to Svejk

Mohamed Dervišbegović
Social worker between the state and the person

Jože Ramovš
Defining addiction for the needs of social work

Srečo Dragoš
Faith, religion, and the social capital in Slovenia

Friday, 18.10.

18.15 - Grand Hall
Panel: Social work against racism 
Moderator: Bogdan Lešnik

Participants: Hazemina Đonlić, Dina Vanja Dobovičnik, Maja Korc, Franc Kumer, Simona Neuvirt Bokan, Tatjana Samec, Jelka Zorn 

Friday, 18.10.

21.00 
Festive dinner and chat on the beginnings of social work
Participants: honorary board members Andreja Kavar Vidmar, Desa Orel, Bernard Stritih (moderator),  Zora Tomič, Ela Zupančič.

A concert of the group VALI under the slogan: ‘Multiculturalism is the treasure of social work’, followed by dancing until very late.

Saturday, 19.10. 

8.30 
Grand Hall
Plenary lectures: 
Challenges and dilemmas
 

Anica Klemenc Žvikart
The question of internal and external autonomy and the relations of social work

Marjan Vončina, Marija Perkovič, Darja Kuzmanič Korva, Zdenka Korelc, Jelka Fužir, Marija Dobnikar, Štefan Lepoša, Jasna Cajnko
Strategy for the development of centres of social work

Vito Flaker
Fundamental methods and necessary skills of social work
10.00-10.15 
Break

Saturday, 19.10.

10.30 
Sections 5

Grand Hall
Between Scylla and Charybdis of administrative and social work, control and help, tradition and progress

Peter Stefanoski
Dynamic intertwinement of administrative and social work

Kristina Urbanc, Marjana Kletečki
Some ethical challenges for social work in Croatia

Katja Filipčič
The conflict between counselling and controlling function of social workers

Darja Kuzmanič Korva
Strategy for the formation of a network of multi-skilled services

Andreja Črnko
Changing legislation and the emergence of discrepancies

Pavla Rapoša Tajnšek
Community-oriented centres of social work

Saturday, 19.10.

10.30 
White Hall
Metodological challenges

Marko Mesec
E - social work

Katarina Možina
Approaching the youth in the street

Suzana Kraljić
Family mediation: successful parenthood despite unsuccessful partnership

Bernarda Konjar
Very personal views on the role of a foster mother

Petra Videmšek
Individual plan as a work method

Zdenka Kodek
Mediation

Nika Cigoj
The signification of the course ‘Methods of social work’ in education for social work

Lilja Cajvert
Supervision as the support of the process of professionalisation

Saturday, 19.10.

10.30 
Green Hall
Needs and responses  

Vida Miloševič Arnold
Home for the aged as a social institution

Božidar Opara, Lidija Kastelic
Challenges of the concepts of education for persons with special needs

Vida Slemenšek Kovačević
The need for new forms of care for children with developmental disturbances

Tea Smonker
Power perspective of the users in the field of community mental health

Vida Slemenšek Kovačević
Development of social care for persons with disturbances in mental development

Jolanda Vaner, Emica Toplak
Social-pedagogic help for children and adolescents with developmental problems

Martina Jenkole
Protection of children’s benefits in the proceedings from the relations between parents and children

Mojca Hvala Cerkovnik, Simona Prosen 
Support group for female drug users: help in recovery

Saturday, 19.10.

10.30 
Red Hall
Panel: 
Every child has a right for effective protection from the parents
 
Moderator: Anita Kovačec

Participants: Marinka Sila, Slavica Sketelj, Katarina Šifrar, Tomaž Šifrar, Danijela Lapanja Kastelic, Viktorija Bevc, Ivanka Jaušovec

Saturday, 19.10.

12.15 
Grand Hall
Concluding panel: National programme of social welfare – challenges and dilemmas for the practice of social work
Moderator: Darja Zaviršek

Participants: Lidija Apohal Vučkovič, Ciril Klanjšček, Darja Kuzmanić Korva, Mojca Novak, Marija Perkovič, Ružica Petrovič, Zmaga Prošt, Jože Ramovš, Bernard Stritih, Jelka Škerjanc, Katja Zabukovec Kerin

Saturday, 19.10.

14.00
Grand Hall
Final ceremony

Summary and reflection of the congress. Acknowledgements. 
Speaker: Minister of labour, family and social affairs Vlado Dimovski.
15.00 
Departure
Posters:

Urška Krevh
The meaning of life and the significance of the University for the third life stage

Ksenija Ramovš
Voluntary companionship and vital or seemingly vital seniors

Viktorija Bevc
Preparation of barren couples for the adoption of a child within the programme ‘Deteljica’

Branka Knific
Intergenerational camp: community for all ages

Konrad Osterc, Danica Viher
Social-pedagogic help for the family with complex problems

Emica Toplak
Presentation of the activities of the Crisis centre for the youth Maribor

Petra Videmšek
Community services in the field of mental health 

Suzi Kvas
Presentation of the programme of the regional safe house in Celje

Vida Pernek
Autism: a mysterious developmental disturbance

Blaž Mesec
Development and the structure of the science of social work
Opomba:
The papers will be presented in their original languages. Simultaneous translation will be provided for the plenary and major lectures in the Grand Hall. 

Posters will hang in the lobby of the Auditorium. Their authors will be available for presentations and discussions during breaks.

 

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