There is a growing awareness of the needs for LGBT + competency training to ensure that the health and social service providers respond to the needs of the older LGBT + people in affirmative and gender sensitive ways. Objective of the paper is to conduct a synthesis of the literature that describes the pedagogical principles, curriculum content and methods (teaching and assessment) used to educate health and social care providers on the experiences and needs of older LGBT + people. The combined searches found 2214 papers of which 17 papers were eligible for inclusion; 10 were discussion papers and 7 evaluation studies. As the field matures there is a need for a greater exploration of curriculum principles and assessment strategies to overcome barriers to inclusion and to better understand the issues experienced by older LGBT + people.
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From the criteria of objectives, are needs at basis of the long-term care response, nevertheless usually used primarily as a technical term, taken for granted. As a theoretical base, are needs a paramount, omnipresent, and key concept in social policy, social work and in health care, containing layers of historical contradictory dispositions, simultaneously establishing ‘needs’ as a lack, a right, a norm, and a desire. In long-term care the primacy of ‘basic’, bodily needs is often asserted on the account of ‘social’ needs, basing this reduction on Maslow’s notion of a hierarchy of needs. METHODS: We deconstruct the hierarchy by using the example of breathing. In the article we demonstrate a need for terminological clarity in distinguishing between the vital functions, the activities of daily living, and the needs. The needs being not only descriptive, indicative terms, but also imperative and deontic, and therefore must always be deconstructed and based on personal goals, priorities and desires. Since the life (bodily) functions and activities of living are only instrumental to the person’s priorities, ‘needs’ should be always seen as hierarchy of personal priorities – setting thus an important contribution of social work perspective to the emerging systems of long-term care.
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The economic calculation shows that, with the introduction of the universal basic income, there would be no need for any new tax implementation as well as the existing taxes would not be in need to get increased. The additional burden on the state budget would increase from only € 41 million to € 100 million a year (which is a relatively small increase within the state budget). At the same time the universal basic income would completely eliminate absolute poverty in Slovenia and trigger positive effects in various fields, from economics to ecology. If Slovenia would already had the UBI the current pandemic of SARS-CoV-2 would not address the question of how to ensure a basic level of survival for large number of citizens. In such situation the state would focus solely on the health and economic aspects of the current corona crisis. The model is at the same time extremely important and applicable in the field of social policy.
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This article highlights the importance of learning about reflective processes in social work education with the use of duoethnography. Duoethnography is a reflective method, that enabled two social work academics from the UK and Slovenia, to analyse our personal positioning and its influence on our practice. Duoethnographic study allows the authors to consider their social and political statuses in a society. The analysis of critical incidents is used to develop our personal and professional knowledge base. We consider how our own educational experience taught us the value of the “experts by- experience”/service users in all aspects of our practice. Furthermore, we consider the importance of incorporating the perspectives of “experts-by-experience” in the wider professional development of social workers. Consequently, we recommend that social workers reflect upon their experience throughout their professional development; and suggest duoethnography as a potentially significant method in the development of theory and practice in social work.
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The Scientific Monograph Care as Violence is a theoretical analysis based on the empirical evidences of postsocialist societies and Slovenia in particularly. The book notes that care and violence are mostly perceived as two mutually exclusive phenomena, even binary oppositions. The issues of care are linked to areas of social life such as family, parenting, religious activities, social policy, multi-generational solidarity. By contrast, violence is associated with emergencies and crises, exceptional situations and as caused by individual pathology. However, different views are possible. A scientific monograph analyzes particularly those social phenomena that manifest themselves on the surface as care (for persons with disabilities, the poor, women, children), while a deeper analysis reveals their disciplining and violent effects. The book intertwines theories of asylum practices, the construction of migrant people as a security, cultural and social threat, theories of neo-patriarchy and child sexual abuse in church settings. It also reflects on the contemporary shift of tertiary education which became a form of charitable care for young people. The book was awarded by the National Research Agency with the title “Excellence in Science” for 2019.
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