Despite that there is an operating social support system for families, social workers are affected by factors that limit effectiveness of their activities in working with families whose children are taken into temporary ...

Sustainable development is an integral concept and a complex process, which aim is to ensure well-being and prosperity for nowadays and future generations. According to WCED, sustainable development is development that ...

The goal of the article is to reveal how the right to work is implemented regarding persons with epilepsy by investigating their subjective experience. The article is based on qualitative research methodology. By using ...

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 ...

Lithuania underwent radical changes in economic and social systems at the end of the 20th and beginning of the 21st century. The country has a declining and ageing population. The dependency ratio will increase to 44.9%, ...

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

The reform of the child care system in Lithuania started with the Ministry of Social Security and Labor approving the Strategic Guidelines for Deinstitutionalization in 2012, followed by the Transition from Institutional ...

In a shifting, wide and multiple context of the 21st century social work stimulating social change, emphasizing the problems solving, empowerment and liberation of people needs to remain visible in public. It may be effective ...

Early philanthropy and Church social activity laid foundation for Charity organizations and Settlement movements in XIX c.Prethoretical social work started with friendly visitors. Friendly visitors mainly were women who ...

The article discusses the development of social security system in Lithuania at the end of XIX c. and at the beginning of XX c. The country had three different periods of governance: Russian Tsar (1795-1915 m.), German ...