Pub Date : 2023-09-30DOI: 10.5604/01.3001.0053.9257
Anita Gulczyńska, Natalia Dziąg, Kornelia Kruk, Natalia Krupińska, Maciej Płóciennikowski
The article presents the results of a qualitative pilot study conducted to reconstruct both the representation of the city from the perspective of young people from disadvantaged neighbourhoods (DN) in Łódź (Poland) and the configuration of its determinants. Exploration of the city, regulated by the principles of the qualitative content analysis method included exploratory walks (research participant + two students) and a discussion with a group of youth from DN – participants of a youth club established in one of the local educational institutions. The study results present a city full of spatial divisions in which the disadvantaged position of young people from DN becomes evident. The reconstructed picture of the relationship between space and places reveals discursive, cultural and economic mechanisms of extending the power of some groups of citizens over others, whose intersectionality in the era of intensification of revitalisation processes is reflected in the identity processes of these young people. The conclusions of the study encourage its continuation on a larger and more purposefully diverse research sample as well as a revitalised discussion around the role of social professions in revitalisation processes.
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Pub Date : 2023-09-30DOI: 10.5604/01.3001.0053.9260
Katarzyna Sygulska
The article is the literature review on selected aspects of homelessness and describes areas such as: definitions and causes of homelessness, helping homeless people, experiences of people helping them and postulated recommendations regarding help. The article also presents the issue of family, mental and material situation as well as places where homeless people stay.
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Pub Date : 2023-09-30DOI: 10.5604/01.3001.0053.9262
Agnieszka Gazda
The subject of considerations in the article are issues related to the problems occurring in the professional work of social workers, who, repeatedly, deal with interventions for people with mental disorders, who most often do not want to undergo treatment. Increasingly, families claim that the best solution would be to incapacitate such a family member. In addition, the draft act amending the Mental Health Protection Act assumes that doctors will put pressure on family members to use the incapacitation procedure. The aim of this article is to show that incapacitation should be a last resort and to present various forms of support and help for both the patient and family members. The basic research method was the dogmatic method, i.e., formal and legal, involving the use of the existing achievements of law science, which is based on the analysis of legal texts in this area. The assessment of this issue was subject to examination of the current legislation and courts decisions in this respect. Considerations on the necessity of incapacitation are presented in three parts. The first one discusses the importance of protection of health, including mental health, which is protected not only constitutionally, but also under other laws. The second part defines the essence of partial and total incapacitation, its process, entities that may apply for incapacitation. I present legal consequences for an incapacitated person as well as consequences for a person applying for incapacitation recklessly or in bad faith. I answer the question whether a register of incapacitated persons should be established. In the third part, I describe the procedure of application for admission to a psychiatric hospital, which may be carried out, inter alia, by a social worker, a wide range of financial, institutional and social work assistance that can be guaranteed by the social support body for the sick person, so that incapacitation is the extreme measure. The result of this article is to demonstrate that social assistance organisational units, including a social worker and families, have various instruments to support a person in a mental health crisis.
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Pub Date : 2023-09-30DOI: 10.5604/01.3001.0053.9256
Anna Chmielewska
The article describes the problem of alcohol abuse and alcohol addiction among women. The reflections and observations contained therein are based on the results of own research conducted as part of a research project: “Interdisciplinary activities of selected social services with women abusing alcohol”. As part of the research, interviews were conducted with social workers who meet this group of clients in their daily work. Their statements allow us to understand the difficult situation of an addicted woman, raise awareness about her problems and show the circumstances that are the beginning of a difficult addiction battle.Of course, the social worker works only with a specific group of women struggling with the problem of alcohol abuse and addiction. Many of them are unknown to the environment, and they themselves do not ask for any help. This has to do with the way society perceives women abusing alcohol.
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Pub Date : 2023-09-30DOI: 10.5604/01.3001.0053.9254
Ewa Grudziewska, Marta Mikołajczyk
The 21st century is characterised by many changes and related anxiety. The development of new technologies, climate crisis, pandemic or armed conflicts translate into the functioning of individuals, groups and communities. Social workers are not indifferent to these issues. They react to the occurring phenomena by educating, animating, motivating and providing broadly understood support.This article was inspired by papers presented during this year's conference organised by the European Association of Schools of Social Work and the Institute of Social Services of Porto (Instituto Superior de Serviço Social do Porto) that took place on June 20–23, 2023. The content presented by its speakers is supplemented in this paper with references to domestic and foreign literature on the subject.
21世纪的特点是许多变化和相关的焦虑。新技术的发展、气候危机、流行病或武装冲突会影响个人、群体和社区的运作。社会工作者对这些问题并非漠不关心。他们通过教育、激励、激励和提供广泛理解的支持来应对发生的现象。本文的灵感来自于今年由欧洲社会工作学校协会和波尔图社会服务研究所(Instituto Superior de servio Social do Porto)组织的会议上发表的论文，该会议于2023年6月20日至23日举行。本文对发言者提出的内容进行了补充，并参考了有关该主题的国内外文献。
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Pub Date : 2023-09-30DOI: 10.5604/01.3001.0053.9259
Tomasz Nowicki
In the Polish debate and research on begging, there is a tendency to combine this topic with social pathologies, culture, skin colour and race. Due to the use of the above-mentioned categories in the discussed research, I adopted the perspective of the postcolonial theory as the appropriate method of analysing the scientific discourse on begging. Based on the empirical research analysed in the article, I show that the ethical standards used in the research are inconsistent with the UNESCO Experts’ Declaration developed in the mid-twentieth century, recognising the category of race as unscientific. A practice of particular concern in this regard is the coding of empirical data based on racial categories imposed on Roma in the context of identifying begging with criminality. Within these approaches, I identified the essential and cultural approach to begging and the concept of a happy beggar created on its basis. On the other hand, at the level of content and conclusions, the ideological stake of the analyses carried out, aimed at rationing the social usefulness of work and its control, is revealed. In this context, the emerging aim of the research and tasks of the social assistance system is to “provide care” for the activity of citizens and forcing the population able to work to undertake it.
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Pub Date : 2023-09-30DOI: 10.5604/01.3001.0053.9258
Izabela Zębrowska, Ewa Zasępa
The foster family is an important part of social care, created when the biological parents are unable to provide care to the child and is of a temporary nature. The article presents the state of research on formal and informal support provided to foster families as well as the results of own research. The aim of the research was to determine how foster families assess the formal and informal support they experience. These two types of support were assessed both objectively and subjectively. The research is part of a wider project aimed at determining the objective and subjective quality of life of foster families. The study was conducted on a sample of 27 foster families (average age of mothers M=53.33; fathers M=55.48; SD=11.41). The Family Quality of Life Survey – general version, FQoLS-2006 by Ivan Brown et al. from the Centre for Health Promotion in Toronto in the Polish adaptation by Ewa Zasępa, Ewa Wapiennik, Agnieszka Wołowicz (2010) and a demographic survey were used. The questionnaire measures the objective and subjective quality of family life in nine areas: family health, financial situation, family relationships, support from other people, support from specialist services and social assistance, value system, professional career and career preparation, leisure and recreation, social interactions. The article presents the results in the following areas: support from other people and support from specialist services. Results and conclusions: support from other people (informal support) and support from specialist services (formal support) were assessed poorly. Foster families assess the received emotional support better than the practical one. In addition, it has been shown that foster families experience many difficulties and, due to the specific nature of the functioning of these families, social support is particularly important for them.
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