Anna Jarkiewicz
Dr.Anna Jarkiewicz is a social pedagogue, researcher and lecturer at the University of Łódź, whose main field of interests include social work with the socially excluded, socio-cultural perspective, interpretive assessment, qualitative research, author of articles on social work with “mentally disturbed” persons, empowerment, pedagogization of social life.
Abstract
The article contains the conclusions from my research which concerns the professionalization of social work with “mentally disturbed clients, and had been done for six months in the Municipal Social Welfare Centre. This time gave me an opportunity to participate, as an observer, in social workers’ everyday life, and to get to know them better. In my studies I adopted grounded theory research.
Keywords
professionalization, social work, mentally disturbed clients
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