Sylabus
Social Work in CR - Current Situation and Challenges I. Course leaders: Jaroslava Šťastná, Ph.D., Daniel Bartoň, PhD.; Hana Janečková, PhD.; Petra Klvačová, PhD., Eva Křížová, PhD.; The course is taught over a semester (12 sessions) with one lecture or seminar each week. Extension: 2 hours a week Credits: 5 Final examination: final semester essay (5-7 pages), which is to be submitted by June 20th. Power-point presentation of the essay ideas to be discussed at the final workshop.
Plus other seminar works required by the individual course leaders. Topics: · Transition of the Czech society after 1989 - social reflection. (EK) · The legal capacity of people with disabilities in Czech and European case law. (DB) · The system of social services in the CR. (HJ) · Transformation of the institutional care to the form of services provided in community. (HJ) · Individual planning with the service user as a process of social inclusion. (HJ) · Social exclusions and ways to integrate socially marginalized groups. Basic concepts and ideas. (JŠ) · The Czech Health system in international context. (EK) · Social Work with the Special Target Groups on the Health-Social Borderline (old people, people with dementia, people with mental illness, people with long- term illness and activity limitation). (HJ) Research in the field of social work (PK) · Developing and presenting ideas of the examples of social exclusions (workshop and discussion). (JŠ) · Final workshop.