The article explores the impact of the social construction of gender in psychiatric medical systems internationally and in Slovenia. A special emphasis is on the medical diagnosis depression which is seen as the “women's illness” and it questions its diagnostic and social validity.
COBISS.SI-ID: 3876197
The monograph on direct social work is based on historical perspective research dispositives of social work and a critical examination of how social work operates today. It includes a critical ethno-methodological analysis of how professionals come to know service users. The book questions the notion of aid and is trying to discover the syntax of operation in social work. It explores the boundaries of social work and the resources it uses. In doing so, the monograph surpasses the classical interpretation of the triangle of welfare, as it introduces social movement as an important source of social work. On this basis it devises a conceptual framework of direct social work, which was developed as a part of the 15th October movement.
The scientific article deals with the children with special needs in the context of schools. It shows that children’s special needs are often linked with family's poverty and social disadvantages of the family members. The children develop the behaviour of learned helplesness and the consequences of it are learning difficulties. The article analysis the theoretical concepts and methods of social work in this area of practice and research.
COBISS.SI-ID: 3938149
The book is a historic, sociological and a psychosocial analysis of social parenthood in contemporary world. It is based on a comparative analysis with case studies from different parts of the world and it shows which societal differences have caused the shift from biological towards the social parenthood and towards the pluralistic notion of parenthood. It analysis the global phenomena of women's migration, global parenthood, the fall of marriage, the importance of the medical reproductive technology and the formation of the new family formations. It questions the anthropological category of the blood which is supposed to be the fundamental link between two individuals. It also shows that the concept of blood has been replaced with the concept of care which is becoming the primary relationship between the adult and the child.
More than 20.000 people in Slovenia is currently closed in psychiatric hospitals, special institutions and other institutions. In this article the history of deinstitutionalisation in Slovenia is described and analysed. Author claims that deinstitutionalisation needs to be broader than just resettlement of the people to the community. The process in Slovenia began in sixties with experiment in Logatec, summer camps in Rakitna and with some other community projects in Ljubljana. These projects featured anti-authoritarianism, inclusion of the stigmatised, democratization of the community by the community and group work. The goals of deinstitutionalisation – closure of the institution and provision in the community - was clearly articulated in the eighties in youth work camps in long stay institution Hrastovec. First community services have been introduced in nineties. The process of deinstitutionalisation came to a halt, mostly because of the lack of political will and other reasons, explored in the article.
COBISS.SI-ID: 3935077