Despite the considerable number of scientific papers on the importance of interactions between social workers and children in world literature, there are only a few studies and scientific papers in Lithuania that focus ...

Purpose is to present comparative analysis of mental health services for children in residential care in European Union.

In the article, the authors analyse the application of different social work methods while working with children from risk families in day centres. Purposeful and deliberate selection of social work methods makes prevention ...

Globalization and modernization of society, cultural differences on the one hand and mixture of cultures on the other hand requires multicultural competence from helping professionals, including social workers. According ...

Families at risk face many problems. Public opinion about these families usually is formed by mass media which not only provides information, but rather interprets social reality through information. Mass media is a strong ...

The article is based on research which aims to find out the attitudes of social workers toward gender equality. Research questions are the following ones: what are social workers’ attitudes to gender equality in families ...

Since 1943, when the definition of international social work was mentioned, its meaning and content have developed, and at the beginning of the 21st century it became a popular analysis object of social work researches and ...

The goal of the article is to discuss mental health services at tertiary level for children from residential care in Lithuania from professionals’ point of view. Content analysis revealed several topics, three of which are ...

Violence is one of the most complex psychosocial problems, especially if it is experienced from close person like spouse. This problem is not related to social status or other sociodemographic characteristics like ethnicity, ...

Health was an interest of studies from the first sociological classics. Health sociology analysis such concepts as health, disease, illness, disability or more operationalized terms like chronical disease, physical or ...