Socialno delo on-line archive

Socialno delo, Volume 54 (2015), Issue 6


ARTICLES

Vesna Leskošek
Care in the field of disability between institutions and community - 319, (Abstract) (Full text)
Anita Jug Došler, Ana Polona Mivšek, Petra Petročnik, Teja Škodič Zakšek
Subjective theories and views as indicators of the process level of quality in health care and social work - 329, (Abstract) (Full text)
Mitja Svete
Between discipline and co-creating: construction of institutionalised child\'s image in diaries of educators - 341, (Abstract) (Full text)

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Abstracts

 
Vesna Leskošek
Care in the field of disability between institutions and community

(Full text)

Slovene care system in the field of disability is predominantly institutional. Institutional care is legally regulated and financially stable and the same applies also to community services, organised by institutions, like group homes or residential settings. The opposite can be claimed for group homes organised by non-governmental organisations: they are unregulated and poorly financed. There is a lack of quality standards and good practices in the group homes. Care at homes is partly regulated, because the law regulates the work of family carers, but there is a lack of any kind of regulations of personal assistance as the one that assures the most of independency and control over the life of the handicapped by themselves. Care system is based mostly on women’s care work and is, in the case of family carer, evidently gender biased. On the one hand, care system expels women from the labour market but, on the other hand, doesn’t assure decent pay for care work.



Keywords: institutional care, community based care services, personal assistance, family carer.

Vesna Leskošek is an associate professor and the Dean at the Faculty of Social Work, University of Ljubljana. She deals with social inequalities, gender and welfare state. Contact: vesna.leskosek@fsd.uni-lj.si.


 
Anita Jug Došler, Ana Polona Mivšek, Petra Petročnik, Teja Škodič Zakšek
Subjective theories and views as indicators of the process level of quality in health care and social work

(Full text)

The article analyses the concepts of subjective theories and views as indicators of process level of quality in health care and social work. The research question was how it is possible to research and change subjective theories and views of employees. The content analysis of concepts based on social models showed that social ideologies can be transfered into subjective theories and views of employees. Moreover, their changing and directing are (if unsuitable) the precondition for increasing the quality of health and social work of employees in an institution.



Keywords: convictions, reflection, career, professional identity, flow, competences.

Anita Jug Došler, PhD, is an assistant professor of pedagogy and andragogy at the Midwifery department, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Ljubljana. She is professionally engaged in research, education and training in health systems, families and especially in midwifery. Contact: anita.jug@zf.uni-lj.si. Ana Polona Mivšek, PhD, is an assistant professor in the field of midwifery and a Head of Midwifery Chair, Faculty of Health Sciences. She is actively involved in the scientific development of midwifery profession. Contact: polona.mivsek@zf.uni-lj.si. Petra Petročnik, MSc (UK), is assisstant at the midwifery field at the Faculty of Health Sciences. Her interests are the improvement of perinatal care and the area of midwifery education. Contact: petra.petrocnik@zf.uni-lj.si. Teja Škodič Zakšek, MSc (UK) is a senior lecturer and Head of Midwifery Department, Faculty of Health Sciences, who is actively publishing on a topic of midwifery in Slovenia and optimal care for women, newborns and families. Contact: teja.zaksek@zf.uni-lj.si.


 
Mitja Svete
Between discipline and co-creating: construction of institutionalised child\'s image in diaries of educators

(Full text)

Educators in educational institutions have the most interpersonal »face to face« contact with accommodated children, giving them opportunity to establish a relationship with them and thus also for a deeper understanding of child's problems. Consequently, children's image from educator's position is a highly important aspect for understanding how educational institution operates. The most comprehensive institutional documentation to determine adolescent's image are diaries of educators, where the most important daily events are recorded. Diaries are therefore a key source for understanding and evaluation of educational processes. Analysis of selected juvenile educational institution's diaries took place on the axis between Foucauldian analysis of educational institution operation and co-creational approach in child protection work.



Keywords: institution, institutionalisation, education, adolescents, control.

Mitja Svete is a doctoral student in INDOSOW programme at the Faculty of Social Work, University of Ljubljana. He researches different working approaches in youth crisis situations. Contact: mitja.svete@gmail.com.