Marie Špiláčková

• University of Ostrava

OBJECTIVES: The aim of the article is to capture the development of social work in enterprises in the territory of Bohemia and Moravia in the years 1921-1992, which took place within the framework of social policies in enterprises. THEORETICAL BACKGROUND: Social policy has created an appropriate environment for the establishment of professional soc...

The Oxford Handbook of Power, Politics, and Social Work is an attempt to develop evidence-based literature on how social work evolves and performs in a particular political system. This handbook brings together 51 chapters from 32 countries that represent different regions and regimes. In several chapters, the authors provide an overview of the fac...

Alice Garrigue Masaryková (1879–1966) was a prominent figure who played a key role in the early days of social work in Czechoslovakia. She laid the foundations of social work education, maintained and developed international professional contacts, organized and attended international conferences, implemented her foreign experience in the Czechoslov...

Cross-border cooperation has been considered an essential element in the development of professional social work and its education since its beginnings in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Many social work pioneers promoted the principles of peace, war relief, human rights and international cooperation in dealing with social problems. In Cent...

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...

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...

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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...

Long-term care for Apallic clients in residential social institutions in the Czech Republic faces the problem of insufficient definition in present legislation. The trend in the provision of services to clients in a coma is an integrated attitude from a multidisciplinary team providing health and social services. The aim of the text is to analyze t...

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...