Jan Volker Wirth

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Jan Volker Wirth (2015)

Jan Volker Wirth (* 1967 in East Berlin ) is a German social work scientist and systemic supervisor.

Life

Wirth grew up with three siblings in the GDR in East Berlin, went to school in Berlin-Mitte and initially learned to be a car mechanic . After a few years of pre-professional child and youth work (1999–2002) in Berlin-Weißensee , Wirth studied social work at the Alice Salomon University of Applied Sciences in Berlin . After the pre-term financial statements for 2005 with a degree in social work, he studied in postgraduate studies sociology at the University of Berlin and Freiburg University , where he in 2013 to Dr. phil. received her doctorate in sociology with distinction . In 2019 he became a professor at the private, state-recognized university Diploma.

Jan V. Wirth was deputy chairman of the board of the German Society for Systemic Social Work from 2009 to 2011 and co-editor of Issue 1 of the journal Systemic Social Work . Wirth has been a member of the editorial team of the International Journal of Social Work since 2014 . Wirth has been a member of the scientific advisory board of the largest systemic specialist publisher, Carl-Auer-Verlag, since 2019.

Research and Teaching

Wirth developed a systemic “theory of lifestyle” for social work. The change of perspective from coping with life to lifestyle enables "a proactive view of the way of life, of making visible conditions that cannot be traced back to individual, but also to social problems of lifestyle."

Wirth has his disciplinary and professional theoretical investigations particularly in the two works The Lifestyle of Society. Outline of a general theory (2015) and together with Kleve the enabling profession. 69 beacon for systemic work (2019).

Wirth has received 50 teaching positions and three engagements as a deputy professor in science, theory and methods of social work since 2005 at 15 different professional academies, technical colleges, colleges and universities (universities of Cottbus , Vechta , Kraków and Krems ) in Germany, Austria and Poland.

It is his since 2018 in the course "Counseling in Social Work" (Master of Arts) Diploma University as dean operates.

Publications (selection)

  • with Heiko Kleve: From the divided to the connected lifestyle . Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2019, ISBN 978-3-525-40681-6 .
  • as ed. with Annemarie Jost: Mehrperspektivisches Arbeit. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 2017, ISBN 978-3-17-032097-0 .
  • Help in the modern and post-modern. Fragments of a topography of helping. Carl Auer Verl., Heidelberg 2005, ISBN 978-3-89670-349-1 .
  • with Heiko Kleve: The practice of social work science. Schneider, Hohengehren 2009, ISBN 978-3-8340-0644-8 .
  • as an editor with Heiko Kleve: Lexicon of systemic work - basic concepts of systemic practice, methodology and theory. Carl-Auer, Heidelberg 2012, ISBN 978-3-89670-827-4 .
  • with Heiko Kleve: The enabling profession. Carl-Auer, Heidelberg, 2019, ISBN 978-3-8497-0309-7 .
  • Lifestyle as a system problem - drafting a theory of lifestyle. Diss. PH Freiburg, 2013, online at: PHFr
  • The way of life of society. Outline of a general theory. Springer, Heidelberg 2014, ISBN 978-3-658-07706-8 .

Web links

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Individual evidence

  1. Jan V. Wirth, Heiko Kleve (Ed.): Lexicon of systemic work. socialnet.de, accessed on August 27, 2018 .
  2. ^ PH Freiburg, dissertation
  3. a b Diploma University: Jan V. Wirth . Retrieved April 2, 2019.
  4. ^ Editorial team . From macrothink.org, accessed August 27, 2016
  5. Carl-Auer-Verlag: About us . Retrieved June 14, 2019.
  6. Helmut Lambers: Theories of Social Work. 4th edition. Budrich, Leverkusen 2018, p. 238 ff.
  7. ^ Website of the Catholic University . Retrieved November 4, 2019.