Larissa Starovoytova (Starovoitova), Tatiana Demidova, Svetlana Fomina
Larissa I. Starovoytova (Starovoitova) is a professor at the Faculty of Social Work of the Russian State Social University. Her research interests are professional social education and analysis of practical experience of specialists, social work in long-term care, care for the elderly, people with disabilities and cognitive disorders. She is the author of numerous articles and textbooks on the history and theory of social work. She was at the origin of the development of social education in the Russian Federation, researches quality of life, social gerontology and problems of loneliness, develops the methodology of historical research in social work.
Tatiana E. Demidova is a professor at the Faculty of Social Work of the Russian State Social University and Doctor of Historical Sciences. Her research interests are professional social education and analysis of the practical experience of specialists and social work with families with disabilities. She is the author of various articles and textbooks on theoretical and practical problems of social work. Svetlana N. Fomina3 is a professor at the Faculty of Social Work of the Russian State Social University and Doctor of Pedagogical Sciences. Her research interests are professional social education and analysis of the practical experience of specialists and social work with young people at risk. She is the author of various articles and textbooks on the problems of professional education of social work specialists.
Abstract
OBJECTIVES: The objectives of the study were to find new facts about the beginning of social work training in Russia, to analyse historical documents concerning the development of the Psychoneurological Institute under the leadership of V. M. Bekhterev. THEORETICAL BASE: formational approach, world-history theory. METHODS: General scientific methods: analysis, synthesis, methodological principles of historicism, objectivity, and consistency. OUTCOMES: The article summarizes the experience of the Psychoneurological Institute as the “first social institute” in Russia, reveals the content, main directions, forms, and methods of the system of training specialists in public charity in Russia at the turn of the 19th-20th centuries. New, previously unpublished, archival sources were introduced into the scientific field. The results of the study were a deeper understanding of the history of social work and inclusion of historical research into the training programs of social workers. SOCIAL WORK IMPLICATIONS: The article can be used in the course “History of social work” and can be included into manuals for universities of a social profile. The historical findings will help to enrich the history of social work and increase the prestige of the social work as a profession.
Keywords
history of social work, public charity, private charity, the institutions, societies, figures for public and private charity, vocational training, social education, socio-practical, socio-pedagogical, sociomedical components of social assistance, social university
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