Ediotrial
2023-08-30
We are introducing a new volume of Czech and Slovak Social Work Journal, which we could simply call “colourful”.Zobrazit text
Critical Eco Practice: How Should It Develop in Social Work Practice Thinking?
2023-08-30
This paper reviews the practice implications of texts proposing an eco or green social work. While these developments reject social work’s historic emphasis on the social environment and ecological systems practice, eco practice theory has not achieved significant influence on social work practice and theory. Zobrazit text
Components of the Context Fostering a Transformative Learning in the Course of Social Work Education. The case of a Socially Engaged Research
2023-08-30
As transformative learning (TL) is today considered an important component of social work education and practice (e.g., Dempsey, Halton, Murphy, 2001), the article seeks the possibilities of TL incorporation in the social work curriculum. The author argues that individual projects of socially engaged qualitative research could be considered as one of them and reconstructs the components of this research that fostered a researcher’s fundamental cognitive transformation.Zobrazit text
Group Art Therapy as a Tool of Increasing Professional Competences
2023-08-30
The article aims at introducing group art therapy as a form of improving professional competences of social workers, as well as a means of verification of the effectiveness the group-arttherapy programme on the improvement of professional competences.Zobrazit text
Community Building and Co-production: The Face Mask Sewing Initiative at the Dawn of COVID-19
2023-08-30
This study reacts to people’s co-productive grassroots community problemsolving in reaction to complications caused by COVID-19 and related restrictions.Zobrazit text
Majority Population Attitudes towards the Roma Minority as a Specific Component of the Group-Focused Enmity Syndrome in the Slovak Republic
2023-08-30
The study is dedicated to the analysis of societal attitudes towards the Roma minority in Slovakia, representing inter-ethnic conflict between the majority population and the 2nd biggest minority in Slovakia.Zobrazit text
The Local Government’s Approach to the Integration of Foreigners in the Czech Republic
2023-08-30
The aim of this article is to analyse the readiness of local governments in the Czech Republic to implement their own integration policies. Zobrazit text
Czechoslovak Social Security Scheme in Connection with Association Activity in Ostrava in the 1950s and 1960s
2023-08-30
The aim of the paper is to analyse the activities of the Department of Social Security and Workforce Councils of the North Moravian Regional National Committee of Ostrava in the 1950s and 1960s in connection with “association” activities dedicated to social work. Zobrazit text