The aim of the article is to find out the attitudes of children and professionals in socialization centers about socio-pedagogical support and the role of the professionals in providing different kinds of support for ...

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 ...

The experience of organization of socio-educational support in institutions for delinquent youth is analysed in the article. Lithuanian law regulates the provision of socio-educational support in socialization centres. ...

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 ...

The goal of the article is to reveal experiences of changes the lives of people with chronical psychical disease from existentialism theory perspective. Qualitative research was done in order to answer to these research ...