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Positions of social workers’ views about residential care for people with dementia
- Authors:
- HAVRDOVA Zuzana, JIRI Safr, STEGMANNOVA Ingrid
- Journal article citation:
- Social Work and Society: International Online Journal, 10(2), 2012, Online only
- Publisher:
- University of Bielefeld
Reform of the social services in the Czech Republic faces numerous obstacles in individual care, mainly in residential services. Many different professions participate in these services provided to care recipients. To show how social work may contribute to reforms in this area, the authors present the views of social workers about the care provided within a team of different professionals. A questionnaire survey was used to study the respondents’ readiness to apply the person-centred approach in a group of 560 professionals working in a number of residential facilities for the elderly. The results show that regardless of the organisational context, social workers tend towards the client-centred approach more often than other professionals. The organisational context influences however the perspectives of other professionals. (Publisher abstract)
Lessons from social work in the Czech Republic
- Authors:
- MONK Valerie, SINGLETON Neil
- Journal article citation:
- Social Work in Europe, 2(3), 1995, pp.42-48.
- Publisher:
- Russell House
Cheshire County Council Social Services Department, and University College Salford School of Social Work, have recently been involved in establishing an EC funded project with the Social Care Departments of three Czech Local Authority Districts, the University of Hradec Kralove Social Work Department and the Irish Western Health Board. In this article the authors discuss their observations on Czech social work and Czech society from two exploratory visits made to set up the project. Their observations include social policy and management issues, social work practice issues and future challenges facing social work in the Czech Republic.