German Association for Social Work in Health Care
The German Association for Social Work in Health Care eV (DVSG) is a professional association that promotes social work in the health care system and wants to contribute to strengthening and further developing social work in the health care system. The association's headquarters and the federal office are in Berlin .
history
The DVSG has its origins in the German Association for Welfare Services in Hospitals, which was founded in 1926.
The history of social work in hospitals goes back to 1896, when the first approaches can be found in Berlin to provide psychosocial help for people in hospitals in addition to medical and nursing treatment. The first supportive patient visits by members of the “Girls and Women's Groups for Social Aid Work” took place at the Charité in Berlin. At the same time, denominational associations in Berlin set up similar activities. The "Evangelical Association for Church Purposes" and the "Association for Welfare for Young Women" visited patients and their relatives in city hospitals and infirmaries in Berlin. In the early years there were introductory courses and technical instruction and thus formed the first vocational training efforts in welfare to qualify women for these tasks.
In 1913, after a trip to America with her husband, Hermann Strauss (chief physician of the Jewish Hospital Berlin), Elsa Strauss reported on the social work done there in the hospital and its methodological approaches. Your lecture and its later publication helped the new offer in the hospital to break through. As a result, the "Social Hospital Welfare Committee" was founded. The aim was to set up or expand social hospital care in all of Berlin's city hospitals.
In the beginning there were different working conditions for the social workers. For example, in some houses access to the sick was only possible under certain conditions. Patients had to expressly ask for it, no signs or posters were allowed to be put up. These difficulties were resolved through the work of the committee. The committee also took on organizational tasks, regulated the use of volunteers, coordinated the exchange of experiences between employees, the correspondence with the authorities and carried out public relations work. Alice Salomon was the chairman. Employees were important women of the bourgeois women's movement (e.g. Adele Beerensson , Siddy Wronsky and Henriette May ).
In 1914, the Berlin magistrate approved a corresponding proposal by the committee to set up social hospital care in all Berlin city hospitals, so that practical work of hospital welfare began in almost all city hospitals in Berlin, Charlottenburg and Schöneberg.
At the same time, hospital social work was established in other cities in 1913. For example in Frankfurt am Main by Jenny Apolant, Minnie Roessler and Lina Weber, in Hamburg by Maria Philippi and in Breslau by Hildegard Tietze.
Another step on the way to systematically establish hospital care in Berlin at all hospitals was the founding of the “Social Hospital Care Outside Charité eV” association by Hedwig Landsberg and Anni Tüllmann .
Finally, the German Association for Welfare Service in Hospitals was founded in 1926 at the Health, Social Affairs, Physical Exercise (Gesolei) exhibition in Düsseldorf. The association should primarily act as a study society and collect, process and convey experience from home and abroad. In a press appeal on October 25, 1926, all authorities, corporations and persons interested in the area of responsibility of the welfare service in the hospital were asked to join the new organization.
Immediately after the National Socialists came to power in April 1933, all employees with a Jewish denomination, Jewish descent or Jewish name were excluded from the German Association for Welfare Service in the hospital. The then chairman of the association Alfred Goldscheider (director of the III. Medical University Clinic Berlin) and the managing director Hedwig Landsberg were also affected. The ideas of the National Socialists on health policy, genetic health care, racial hygiene and the turning away from the individual principle in welfare care were welcomed by many members. It was appealed to use the expertise and ability in the sense of the objectives of the Third Reich. The statutes of the German Association for Welfare Service in Hospitals were adapted to the new conditions and stipulated that only German Aryan votes could become members of the association. In April 1935, the German Association for Welfare Services in Hospitals “submitted” to the “Main Office of the People's Welfare of the Reichsleitung of the NSDAP”. As a result, leading representatives of the National Socialist People's Welfare (NSV) took over the chairmanship of the DVSK until 1945.
After Germany surrendered in May 1945, the German Association for Welfare Service in Hospitals was dissolved due to its membership of the NSV. In December 1946, the Berlin Hospital Welfare Association was founded at the Charité. The former managing director of the German Association for Welfare Services in Hospitals, Hedwig Landsberg, also began to work again as a hospital welfare worker in Heidelberg and in 1949 initiated a first meeting in Heidelberg. The assembly at that time decided to re-establish the German Association for Welfare Service in Hospitals. Hedwig Landsberg ended her job as a hospital welfare worker in 1951 at the age of 72 and devoted herself exclusively to her role as managing director of the German Association for Welfare Services in Hospitals. The headquarters of the office was initially Heidelberg.
In 1965 the association was renamed the German Association for Social Service in Hospitals (DVSK).
In 1971 the office was relocated to Mainz.
In 2003 the general assembly decided to open the professional association to all fields of social work in the health sector. In addition to the traditional inpatient areas of social services in acute hospitals and rehabilitation clinics, this also enabled members from other fields of work, such as B. outpatient advice centers, possible. The name of the professional association was changed to the German Association for Social Work in Health Care eV (DVSG).
In 2011, in line with developments and discussions in social work / social pedagogy, the name was changed to the German Association for Social Work in Health Care eV (DVSG). The seat of the association and the federal office are relocated to Berlin.
tasks and goals
- Advice and information for members
- Promote a greater integration of social aspects in prevention, medical care and rehabilitation
- Promotion of the quality of social work through guidelines, standards, research projects
- Further development in terms of content and structure through the development of concepts, health and socio-political positions and statements
- Advice and information from politics, administration and the specialist public
- Cooperation with decision-makers in health and social services
- Promotion and initiation of exchange of experience and cooperation within social work as well as interdisciplinary contexts
- Promotion of the professional exchange between research, teaching and practice
- Publication of a trade journal (FORUM social work + health)
- Publications
- Organization and implementation of specialist conferences and congresses
- Continuing education and training
- public relation
activity
The DVSG is a registered association (eV)
The purpose of the association is to promote social work in the health care system and to further develop its significance as a field of social work in the health care system through specialist scientific work. The purpose of the statutes is achieved in particular through the organization of training, further education and training measures, through the publication of a specialist journal and through the development and publication of position papers and professional statements in the field of social and health care.
The DVSG publishes reports on the activities of the professional association as well as reports on topics relevant to social work in the health sector.
The DVSG organizes training courses and congresses, prepares publications, statements, position papers and concepts. In this way, it contributes to the further development of the professional field and the health system.
Board
The board consists of a minimum of 6 and a maximum of 12 members. Only natural persons can be members of the board. It is elected every 4 years by the general assembly.
Members
All natural and legal persons, as well as unincorporated associations that are willing to promote social work in the health sector, can become members of the association. The board of directors decides on the admission.
Ordinary general meetings take place every two years. The general assembly decides u. a. on the election of the board of directors, the amount of the annual fee, the appointment of honorary members of the association, changes to the statutes and changes to the rules of procedure.
Resolutions are usually passed by a simple majority of the members present. The resolutions must be recorded in writing and signed by the first or second chairman or a chairman of the meeting.
Advisory Board
The Advisory Board of the DVSG consists of the 1st and 2nd chairmen of the DVSG and the delegated members of the management of the regional working groups. Only the delegated members of the working groups are entitled to vote. The advisory board has the task of supporting the board in its statutory work, advising the interests and concerns of the members and, if necessary, making recommendations for the board. The advisory board meets at least once a year. It also meets at the written request of the management of at least a quarter of the working groups.
Working groups
The DVSG is organized in regional working groups and state working groups.
The working groups take up the topics relevant to social work in the health care system on a regional basis, build regional networks both within the different fields of work and with other professions and actors in the health care system, organize training courses, develop projects, implement them and ensure the exchange of experiences.
Departments and project groups
The content-related processing of current topics is organized in the departments of the DVSG, but is the overall responsibility of the board of the DVSG. In addition to the specialist areas, subject-specific specialist groups can also be formed, to which external experts can also be consulted.
The results of the project groups flow back into the respective specialist group and are coordinated with the entire board.
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literature
- Peter Reinicke: Social Hospital Care in Germany - From the Beginning to the End of the Second World War Leske + Budrich, Opladen 1998, ISBN 3-8100-2007-9 .
- Peter Reinicke (Ed.): Social work in hospitals - past and future Lambertus Verlag, Freiburg im Breisgau 2001, ISBN 3-7841-1363-X .
- N. Gödecker-Geenen / H. Nau: Clinical Social Work. Determining the position of Münster-Hamburg-London: LIT-Verlag, 2002, ISBN 3-8258-5934-7 .
- N. Gödecker-Geenen / H. Nau / I. Weis: The patient in the hospital and his need for psychosocial advice. An empirical inventory of Münster-Hamburg-London: LIT-Verlag, 2003, ISBN 3-8258-6287-9 .
- German Association for Social Work in Health Care eV: DVSG case groups for social work in health care Berlin 2006, ISBN 3-9811072-0-9 .
- German Association for Social Work in Health Care eV (DVSG): Product and service description of clinical social work . 2nd Edition. 2007, ISBN 3-9811072-4-1 .
- A. Schneider, AL Rademaker, A. Lenz, I. Müller-Baron (eds.): Social work - research - health. Research: bio-psycho-social. Theory, Research and Practice of Social Work Volume 8. Opladen, Berlin, Toronto: Verlag Barbara Budrich, 2013, ISBN 978-3-8474-0078-3 .
- DVSK: Action plan for social work in hospitals
- German Association for Social Work in Health Care: Position Paper Case Management and Social Work , Berlin 2008
- German Association for Social Work in Health Care: Policy Paper on Social Work in Medical Rehabilitation , Berlin 2008
- German Association for Social Work in Health Care eV: DVSG Quality Management. Guide to the establishment of a quality management system for clinical social work , Berlin 2011, ISBN 3-9811072-6-8
- German Association for Social Work in Health Care: Position Paper Outpatient Advice , Berlin 2013
- German Association for Social Work in Health Care eV: Position paper on discharge management through social work in hospitals and rehabilitation clinics , Berlin 2013