The article is based on the theory of E. Durkheim about the impotance of the professions in modern societies. Professions are today of a crucial importance, as they provide complex and sophisticated system of practices, although these practices do not necessarily bring happiness to the populations. Professions are socially functional also because of their professional ethics which is spread in the society through professionals and the clients. At the same time, professions are also an instrument of keeping the monopol and the professional segregation of the elites in order to maximize the profit. The reason to relativise the Durhkhemian optimism about the professional elite is today their professional ethics.
F.03 Increased qualifications of the research and development staff
COBISS.SI-ID: 2664677The analysis encompasses the most important dimensions and definitions of ethnic conflicts in a global perspective. It contains the topics such as, the definition, the history of ethnic conflicts, the forms and types of ethnic conflicts and specific issues such as the sterilisation wars. The analysis is part of a wider international scientific book which is used in international social work teaching, research and in practice.
F.02 Acquisition of new scientific knowledge
COBISS.SI-ID: 3724645This is an important socio-economic achievement which already has a long history of public discussions, publications and professional debates led by Vito Flaker. Flaker is one of the authors of the Slovenian concept of the long-term care which is one among the alternatives to deinstitutionalisation. Despite of the fact that the system of the long-term care has been almost implemented, this is still not the fact. Flaker emphasises that the system of long-term care is not an utopia but a sustainable reality.
F.23 Development of new system-wide, normative and programme solutions, and methods
COBISS.SI-ID: 3864421The thematic issue of Journal of Social Work is a final result of our research on the field of social work in the health care. Results showed that the field of social work in the health care is one of the most neglected area in social work science. The consequence of such situation along with long lasting domination of powerful professions in this field is a dominance of medical discourse in the language of social workers. The new movements and practices have been approached, such as patient participation and peer support in health care. Alongside the movement of patients’ participation within the health system, the knowledge drawn from the experience of illness has changed the patients’ roles in many aspects. The importance of chronic illness has stimulated the development of patients’ education about their illness in order to support them in their symptoms management and to improve their life quality. Several ideal typical roles of patients are nowadays in relation with health professionals: those who consider that their illness brought them experiential knowledge that could be useful to the health system and the society. They are acting with their peers (peer-support), in educational settings (user-trainers, user-researchers), in hospitals (peer-educators).
F.12 Improvements to an existing service
The leading discourse laying in the base of mental health lay advocay actions and philosophy in the nineties'was the so called human rights discourse in mental health. The impression is that with new developments in the mental health field (introduction of the professional statutory advocacy) this tends to change towards greater inclusion of other discourses (mainly discourse of medical model) in understanding the role of a professional advocates. This is mainly caused by recruitment of advocates with nursing or social work professional background who are employed in the psychiatric hospitals. On other side their view on their original profession extremely changed toward inclusion of human rights discourse.The paper aims to explore this thesis through statutory advocates' narratives about their advocacy cases in the first year of their work.
F.12 Improvements to an existing service
COBISS.SI-ID: 3855973