Clinical social work

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Clinical social work is a branch of social work . Clinical social work sees itself as specialist social work alongside adult education , health promotion and the classic areas of individual social assistance .

After the call for clinical social work needs a profile from Wolf Rainer Wendt in 1995, Helmut Pauls and Harald Ansen developed the area between 2001 and 2004 as an area theoretically and for social practice.

definition

As specialist social work, clinical social work specializes in

  • direct work with clients and their specific life situation
  • Processing of difficult social, bio-social and psycho-social disorders and problems
  • Social work treatment for mental , somatic , acute and chronic illnesses with significant social implications
  • Health work with intensive inclusion of the social context.

Foundation

On the basis of the basic goals of social work - preventing, alleviating or solving social problems of individuals in social systems - it is about a socio-pathological expertise of bio- psychic and bio- psychosomatic disorders and an intervention based on social work science within the framework of counseling , treatment and prevention . This specialist social work is referred to as "clinical social work", regardless of whether the social-clinical work is carried out in practices, outpatient advice centers, in day care facilities, or in clinics and long-term inpatient facilities . Clinical social work thus brings its own professional perspective of problem genesis and processing into the clinical framework of interdisciplinary treatment teams and institutions.

Differentiation from hospital social service

Clinical social work must be distinguished from social work in hospitals ( clinical social service ). The association with the hospital, which is obvious in German, does not correspond to the usual use of the term in science and medicine . In particular in Anglo-Saxon and Anglo-American language usage, the term ( clinical ) is directly related to the advisory or therapeutic treatment of people ( direct practice ), regardless of whether they are bedridden and treated in a hospital or receive outpatient help (this is how the Child Guidance Clinic an educational counseling center ).

Intervention knowledge

Basic for the intervention knowledge of clinical social work is the social work science explanatory knowledge for the development of biopsychic and biopsychosomatic disorders. It is about the connection between social problems, such as permanently unsatisfied biopsychosocial needs of individuals (as inconsistency tensions according to Grawe (2004)) and their biopsychopathological effects on people. In this respect, the first thing is to find out those social interaction relationships (as exchange and power relationships) of the sick individual that are associated with a permanent prevention of needs satisfaction and that have contributed to the disorder. In the treatment, the establishment of new social networks in which the client can experience the satisfaction of needs as far as possible plays an essential role.

The action methods of clinical social work are characterized by interventions that address the person in his or her place in the social context. Social counseling, psycho-social counseling, social therapy (or sociotherapy), promotion of social support within the framework of social networking , case management . Research focuses on the relationship between the person and the environment. Important topics are: sociogenesis of disorders; psycho-social diagnostics; Social diagnoses; social work counseling and therapy; social coping with disorders; Significance of the social network; social and psychosocial intervention.

distribution

In 2001, in addition to relevant master’s courses at the Coburg University and later at the Alice Salomon University in Berlin and the Catholic University of Berlin, the “Central Office for Clinical Social Work (ZKS)” was established in Germany, which is dedicated to the profession-specific promotion of this specialist social work. With the rapid development of clinical social work in Europe in recent years, an independent professional association, the European Center for Clinical Social Work (ECCSW), has also developed with the support of the ZKS. The ECCSW represents the European counterpart to the US Clinical Social Work Federation (CSWF) and, together with the ZKS, awards the certificate “Specialist social worker for clinical social work”, which is subject to strict quality guidelines. The ECCSW cooperates with domestic and foreign universities to bundle and promote practice, science and research on clinical social work. In addition to the universities mentioned above, clinical social work has also found widespread use in academic teaching at the universities in Aachen , Koblenz , Munich , Vienna and the Swiss FHNW , where accredited master’s courses have been created.

See also

literature

  • H. Ansen: Clinical social work and methodical action . In: social magazine . 2000, 2, pp. 16-25.
  • JR Brandell (Ed.): Theory and Practice in Clinical Social Work . The Free Press, New York 1997, ISBN 0-684-82765-4 .
  • RA Dorfman: Clinical Social Work: Definition, Practice and Vision . Brunner-Mazel, New York 1996, ISBN 0-87630-808-6 .
  • M. Dörr (Ed.): Clinical social work . Hohengehren 2002.
  • SB Gahleitner, G. Hahn (Ed.): Clinical social work. Research for practice - research from practice. Contributions to psychosocial practice and research 2 . Psychiatrie Verlag: Bonn 2009, ISBN 978-3-88414-482-4 .
  • B. Geißler Piltz, A. Mühlum, H. Pauls: Clinical social work . UTB, Stuttgart 2005, ISBN 978-3-8252-2697-8
  • K. Grawe: Neuropsychotherapy . Hogrefe, Göttingen 2004, ISBN 3-8017-1804-2 .
  • L. Nock: The clinical picture of obsessive-compulsive disorder from the perspective of clinical social work . Logos, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-8325-2066-3 .
  • H. Pauls, A. Mühlum: Clinical Competencies. A determination of the location of clinical social work . In: Sozialmagazin, 2004, 12, pp. 22-27.
  • WR Wendt: Clinical social work needs a profile . In: sheets of welfare . 1995, 142, v10, pp. 256-257.
  • R. Ningel: Methods of clinical social work . Haupt, Bern 2010. ISBN 978-3-8252-3542-0 .
  • H. Pauls: Clinical social work - Basics and methods of psycho-social treatment . Juventa, Weinheim and Munich, second revised edition 2011.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ see also website for clinical social work ( memento of the original from October 23, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.klinische-sozialarbeit.de
  2. ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original from January 31, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. - p. 6 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.dgsainfo.de
  3. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original dated August 1, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.eccsw.eu
  4. ↑ Silke Birgitta Gahleitner, Gernot Hahn (ed.): Clinical social work. Target groups and fields of work . Psychiatrie Verlag, Bonn 2008, p. 44