Social work in extreme circumstances

Degree: 1
Year: 4
Study program: Social work

Holder: Alenka Gril
Collaborator(s): Mojca Šeme

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Subject content:
  • Conceptions of 'extreme circumstances', their causes and consequences.
  • Role of social work in extreme circumstances and interdisciplinary collaboration.
  • Foreign and domestic experiences of natural (eartquakes, floods, fires) and human-made (wars, industrial pollution, developmental projects, pandemics) disasters.
  • Methods of social work in extreme circumstances (assesment of needs, identification of vulnerabilities, participation in the planning of measures, assurance of emergent aid for the neediest, encouragment of self-organisation).
  • Long-term significance of extreme circumstances for the community and the individual. 
  • Strenghtening community resilience – risk reduction, recovery planing, promoting resilience and readiness to disasters.
  • Experiences of solidarity.
  • Spontaneous notions of appropriate and fair assistance.
  • Post-traumatic stress disorder.
  • Psychosocial methods of work with traumatised people in disasters.