Research and development work at the Faculty

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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