Socialno delo on-line archive

Socialno delo, Vol. 56 (2017), Issue 2

2017/2

ARTICLES

Klavdija Kustec
Use of expressive and creative media in social work and related helping professions - 81, (Abstract)

Melisa Baranja
Status of Slovene Roma mothers in Roma communities and outside - 99, (Abstract)

PROFESSIONAL CONTRIBUTION

Tamara Rape Žiberna
Conceptualization of innovations in social work - 111, (Abstract)

POROČILA O PROJEKTIH

Rosana Gjura Luci, Tanja Požaršek, Marjeta Bizaj
Integrated approach to providing home care services: Project “Active and quality aging in home environments” - 129, (Abstract)

 
Klavdija Kustec
Use of expressive and creative media in social work and related helping professions

The article presents some results of the study on the use of expressive and creative media in social work and the related helping professions in Slovenia. The term expressive and creative medium comprises drawing, painting, movement-dance, puppetry, theatre-drama, creative writing and reading, photography, video art and similar, and tries to answer the question of how to use these media creatively, when offering support and help. According to the results of the qualitative study, expert workers in the field of support and help have, on average, applied expressive and creative approaches for between five to ten years. They report noticing many positive aspects of the use of these media in their work with participants. However, they also observe certain risk factors in this kind of work. The method of work that the expert workers use in their work with expressive and creative media is group work, followed by work with individuals. The study showed that additional expert training of social workers in the related helping professions would be needed when using expressive and creative media in social work.

 
Melisa Baranja
Status of Slovene Roma mothers in Roma communities and outside

The thesis is based on personal observation and field research. It presents the results of field work interviews with twelve Slovenian Romani women who live in three different locations in Slovenia. The central themes of the research were: entering the life partnerships; family violence; births of children; rearing the children; the help the women are given in child rearing on the part of the Romani community, and the state institutions. The Romani communities in Slovenia are all but homogenous, as is equally true also of the majority population. Thus the women, members of Romani communities, recount their life experiences with partnerships, their family of origin and their own family, and their children across a wide spectrum of experiences, viewpoints and life courses. One of the central aims of the text was, among other, to give voice to Romani women who are, to this day, rarely the subject of social work and social science research.

 
Tamara Rape Žiberna
Conceptualization of innovations in social work

Innovations are well researched in organizational theory for profit organizations. Less is known about innovations in non-profit sector. For Slovenian case, PEST analysis was conducted to identify factors from organizational environment that can demand changes in social work and social protection. In legislation, we can observe shift in positive direction since the Resolution on the National Programme for Social Protection for the period 2013–2020 emphasizing innovations as one of the basic principles of social protection. In Slovenian social work literature, we can find only few works that explicitly address the issue of innovations (their features), especially about innovations that are not directly linked to users, although innovations in social work are frequent and needed. The observed niche (that is more theoretical and conceptual in nature) is addressed. Paper presents current situation in Slovenia and suggests typology of innovations in social work.

 
Rosana Gjura Luci, Tanja Požaršek, Marjeta Bizaj
Integrated approach to providing home care services: Project “Active and quality aging in home environments”

The increasing growth of the elderly population challenges both social and health care systems with the challenge of increasing demands for long-term care and other services. The Institute for Home Care in Ljubljana has been providing such services since 2002. In addition to the basic activities carried out by social services, it also conducts organized volunteering, and cross-generation co-operation. In May 2015 the Institute, along with its project partners, started the project “Active and quality aging in home environments”, which has been co-financed by the Norway Grants Programme. This was carried out to supplement the Institute’s core activity, and because of the growing need for certain healthcare services at home. During the project, we worked according to the principles of integrated care and provided our users with free services in physiotherapy, work therapy, nursing, speech pathology, nutritional counselling, measurements of physical and mental abilities and intervention, adaptation of the living environments to the needs of elders and programs of physical exercise. The results of the project are presented in the article.