Dometi socialno konstruktivističnega modela socialnega dela

slovenian

2018

volume 57, issue 2

Univerza v Ljubljani, Fakulteta za socialno delo

In the decades of relatively stable economic development in Europe, social work could shift its focus of interest from ways, approaches, and methods of working from existentially endangered population groups to thinking about improving the quality of life and developing and complementing the forms and quality of social work relations between social workers and users. In Slovenia, too, we have relied heavily on the context set up by the social constructivist approach in social work, also called the postmodern approach. The paper presents the sources of this approach, ie its phenomenology and related social studies. In the last decade, due to the financial and, consequently, economic and political crisis, social work again had to face the basic issues that led to its formation over a century ago: the issues of social inequality and the issues of marginalization, discrimination, poverty and, consequently, questions of survival. The question arises whether so called social constructivist approach in social work, and related approaches, called constructive social work, narrative approaches, and so on, represent an appropriate basis for the effective confrontation of social work as a professional practice and science, that is, as an academic discipline, with the challenges of co-creating solutions with users who find themselves in a situation of existential threat.

18.06.2020