Kateřina Mikulcová Glumbíková

• Professor
• Professor (Associate) at University of Ostrava

The living situation of Ukrainian refugees in the Czech Republic can be explored from various perspectives. However, the currently available data are not able to provide a sufficient view of the refugee situation. These data are rather economic (related to financial situation, employment, wage disadvantage, use of state aid, etc) and do not provide...

Background: The aging of the population is currently an increasingly discussed phenomenon. In this situation, it is worth paying attention to new trends and forms of providing innovative methods and techniques that would enable the activation of seniors. The aim of the presented text is to reflect on the empowering functions of participatory remini...

Despite the fact that there is generally an agreement on the irreplaceable role of the ethical component in social work education, our understanding of values in social work education still remains quite limited. The article aims to analyse, from the perspective of educators, the instilling of social work values at the Czech, Slovakian, Polish and...

The aim of this article is to understand the nature of imagined interactions among social workers in the child protection and to determine the implications for their social work. In the current social work social workers do not have enough space for reflection and this takes place mainly in their minds, often through ideas about (past or future) in...

The paper aims to understand lived experience of social work practitioners in contemporary Czech society through the use of the potential of metaphors. Metaphors are seen as a tool for bringing implicit knowledge and experience to the surface (especially where they are encountered certain barriers to verbalisation); as an area of connecting lived e...

Many key aspects of social work education are not sufficiently researched, and our knowledge of how students build values in social work education, despite its importance for creating concepts about values and their application in practice, is underexplored. The research aims to evaluate the perspective of social work students in the process of val...

Social work in the Czech Republic is confronted with the impact of global neoliberalism, which is manifested by privatisation of social services, individualisation of social risks and economisation. Reflexivity of social workers working with vulnerable children and their families has the potential to lead to a higher quality of social work, strengt...

This chapter investigates the institutional and affective practices of domestic violence (DV) interventions in Finnish social work. It examines the expression of social workers’ emotions related to intervening in DV and how these expressions result in the positioning of clients. Encountering and intervening in DV is often challenging; ideological p...

The Czech Republic has recently experienced a growing number of homeless people, which leads to the need to evaluate the impact of social housing on the living conditions of its users. At present, there is no existing law on social housing in the Czech Republic and the agenda of assistance to the homeless is thus carried out mainly by social servic...

Discourse on the normative use of reflexivity predominates in the professional literature. Expert articles on the topic of non-normative use of reflexivity, which is based on the presumption that social workers do not use reflexivity to improve their work quality, but rather its functions for themselves to fulfil specific purposes, is missing, with...

The needs of homeless children living in shelters and hostels in the Czech Republic have been not sufficiently explored yet. The paper therefore aims to analyse and describe the needs of homeless children living in shelters and hostels in the Czech Republic, thus creating a basis for social work with homeless children and their families. As part of...

The imagined community of social workers provides a collective resemblance to the individual construction of the correctness of performance of social work. This paper aims to understand the influence of the imagined community and its shared social worker’s metanarrative on the ‘correctness’ of social work in social and legal protection of children...

Social work is an emotionally stressful profession and social workers are expected to cope with their emotions according to the practice requirements. Numerous authors anticipate that reflexivity in relation to one´s own emotions is absolutely essential for quality execution of social work. However, there are opinions that believe that even the abi...

Numerous authors have dealt with the definition of practice wisdom and its components. However, little is known about its formation. The submitted paper thus aims at analyzing and describing the dynamics of practice wisdom formation in social workers working with vulnerable children and their families in Czechia. The data originated within a themat...

This paper aims at finding an answer to the question of how social workers perceive their own self in the practice of field social work with families. In the theoretical introduction of the paper, different theories related to the self of a social worker, which are perceived as intersecting, are presented. The text works with data from research foc...

This submitted article is based on partial data from the Health and Use of Health Care Services by Shelters Users research, taking advantage of the sequential synergy of qualitative and quantitative research strategies. The quantitative research involved 192 respondents, while the qualitative research involved 30 communication partners. The article...

The objective of this article is to analyse the situation of transformation of a victim’s identity into a survivor’s identity in mothers living in a shelter in Czech Republic. Domestic violence and commonly associated homelessness can be a very traumatic experience affecting the identity of homeless mothers. To understand victimological concept of...

Participatory social work raises anew the issues of credibility of knowledge, processes of its creation and use, the purpose of social work, and its relationship to politics. It has given the impetus to the emergence of participatory research teams or, in the more radical viewpoints, to the gradual de-academization of both the empirical and theoret...

Participatory social work raises anew the issues of credibility of knowledge, processes of its creation and use, the purpose of social work, and its relationship to politics. It has given the impetus to the emergence of participatory research teams or, in the more radical viewpoints, to the gradual de-academization of both the empirical and theoret...

This paper deals with how the intersectionality of oppression manifests in narratives of single mothers with experience residing in a homeless shelter. Oppression is of a structural nature and single mothers from homeless shelters encounter it in various forms and on various levels. Using a qualitative research strategy, in particular a participato...

On a global scale, the number of families with homeless children is growing. Foreign research shows that homelessness is linked to social adjustment problems. In the Czech Republic there are no surveys on social adjustment in the homeless children population. This article presents partial data from a research survey focused on the situation of home...

Based on research findings on the experience of homeless people living in shelters with the use of health care services, this article shows how oppression can negatively affect the access of the homeless to health care. The acquired data shows that oppression associated with the status of a shelter user creates barriers to health care access – and...

The article discusses the impact of the construct of motherhood on the process of reintegration of single mothers from shelters into permanent forms of housing in the Czech Republic. At the beginning of the article, we deal with the construct of women and mothers in Czech society and apply this construct to the construct of homeless mothers who are...

OBJECTIVES: The aim of the article is to analyze and describe the concept of hope and desirable future as a possible instrument for reducing instrumental responsibility in individual planning in asylum houses in the Czech Republic. THEORETICAL BASE: The post-industrial society, in which social work is performed, can be characterized by uncertainty...

OBJECTIVES: To describe two revealed views in the social and legal protection of children: (1) idiographic and (2) nomothetical, and, subsequently, clarify their implications in practice. THEORETICAL BASE: The assessment and decision-making of social workers take place on several levels: personal, interpersonal, contextual and critical. The idiogra...

The article deals with the use of an anti-oppressive approach in Czech social work focused on homeless people. The theoretical part, among others, looks into the intersectionality of oppression with homeless people. This contribution also presents partial results from two research studies focused on the reflection of oppression by homeless people....

Through the results of a scope study carried out on the topics of public health, the health of shelter users and their access to health service, the authors hope to bring these issues more into the sphere of interest of social work. The authors focused their attention primarily on the physical and mental health of people in shelters; the health of...

The authors of this article want to give an insight into life in shelters from the perspective of their residents. Through partial data from researches dealing with the health of shelter users, they try to answer whether people living in shelters, subjectively have psychological problems; what kind of help they expect from shelters, and how they ev...