Felix Biestek

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Felix Paul Biestek (born July 22, 1912 in Cicero , † December 24, 1994 in Chicago ) was an American Roman Catholic Jesuit priest and university professor who contributed significantly to the development of social work in the period after the Second World War .

Life

Biestek had two brothers and three sisters. He graduated from Morton High School in 1929. From 1930 to 1932 he attended Loyola University Chicago , then one year the Quigley Preparatory Seminar. On September 1, 1933, Biestek began a novitiate in Milford . Biestek graduated from Loyola University Chicago with a bachelor's degree in 1939 and was ordained in 1945 . At Saint Louis University he earned a master's degree in sociology in 1940 and a master's degree in 1949 and a doctorate in social work from the Catholic University of America in Washington, DC in 1951

From 1951 he taught and researched for more than 30 years as a professor of social work at Loyola University Chicago and worked on the National Commission on Social Work.

His book The Casework Relationship , published in 1957, was translated into six languages and published five times in Germany ( essence and principles of the helping relationship in individual social assistance ) between 1968 and 1977. The English-language edition achieved a circulation of more than 100,000 books. His other writings were not translated into German .

His estate is kept in the archives of Loyola University Chicago.

Biestek's 7 principles of social casework

  • Individualization : The recognition that each client is a unique individual. Recognition is based on the need and the right of every person to be treated as an individual and not as a typical member of a group or category.
  • Purposeful Expression of Feelings: Acknowledging that each client has a need to freely express their feelings, especially negative feelings.
  • Controlled emotional involvement
  • acceptance
  • non-judgmental attitude
  • Self-determination of the client
  • Confidentiality : Confidentiality requires the protection of private information that the client has disclosed in the professional relationship or that is obtained from other sources about the client in the course of the collaboration. This client's right is not absolute, that is, situations may arise in which another right or duty is stronger than the client's right to confidentiality.

Fonts

  • The participation of fathers in treatment at the Child Center , typescript of the master's thesis, 1949
  • The principle of client self-determination in social casework , Dissertation, Washington, DC 1951
  • The Non-judgmental Attitude , in: Families in Society: The Journal of Contemporary Social Services, Volume 34 (1953), Issue 6, pp. 235–239
  • Nature and principles of the helping relationship in individual social assistance , (Original: The Casework Relationship , Loyola University Press, 1957), Freiburg: Lambertus 1968, ISBN 978-3-7841-0034-0 (5th edition 1977)
  • I cinque metodi del servizio sociale di Felix Biestek , Malpiero 1960
  • Client Self-Determination in Social Work , 1978, ISBN 978-0-8294-0275-9 .

literature

  • Bob Mullan: Modern Social Work in Search of a Soul: Felix Biestek, in the Service of Others. San Francisco: International Scholars Publications, 1997, ISBN 978-1-57309-162-6 .
  • Johnson Chun-Sing Cheung: A letter to the late Felix Biestek: Revisiting the seven principles of The Casework Relationship with contemporary struggles , in: Ethics and Social Welfare, Volume 9 (2015), Issue 1, pp. 92-100

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Felix P. Biestek, SJ, Papers , in: Loyola University Chicago University Archives, accessed December 14, 2018
  2. ↑ a b Felix P. Biestek, 82, Priest and Professor , in: New York Times, December 31, 1994, accessed December 14, 2018
personal data
SURNAME Biestek, Felix
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Biestek, Felix Paul (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American university professor and Jesuit priest
DATE OF BIRTH July 22, 1912
PLACE OF BIRTH Cicero
DATE OF DEATH December 24, 1994
Place of death Chicago