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
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