Monika Vyslouzil

Monika Vyslouzil (born on May 4, 1956 in Vienna ) is an Austrian social worker , sociologist and university teacher . Since June 2014 she has been the rector of the St. Pölten University of Applied Sciences .

life and work

Vyslouzil was born and raised in Vienna, where he completed elementary school, grammar school and training as a social worker. Immediately after graduating in 1976, she began to work at the Regional Court II in Vienna. In 1979 she completed a four-month study program in Germany and then moved to the Psychosocial Center in Mistelbach in Lower Austria . In 1980 she began to study sociology and journalism . In 1981 she completed a traineeship in a transitional residence of the Richmond Fellowship in London, after which she worked for two years as a freelancer for Heinz Katschnig for projects on depression research at the Psychiatric University Clinic at Vienna General Hospital . From May 1983 to May 1984 Vyslouzil worked as a social worker in an emergency shelter for the mentally ill in Chicago and in outpatient intensive care in Minneapolis . She then returned to the Psychosocial Center in Mistelbach and completed her master's degree in sociology in October 1985.

This was followed by a project at the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Medical Sociology , four years teaching at the Federal Academy for Social Work in St. Pölten, four years as a university assistant at the University of Vienna (during this time she also did her doctorate in sociology) and ten years as director of the Federal Academy for Social work . From 2005 Vyslouzil worked as the head of the department for guardianship in the representative network in Vienna, since 2010 she has been a professor at the University of Applied Sciences St. Pölten in the field of social work and headed the Ilse Arlt Institute for Social Inclusion Research there until 2014 . She has been the rector of the university since June 2014.

Vyslouzil was and is represented in numerous committees and organizations, including the Austrian Professional Association of Qualified Social Workers and the International Federation of Social Workers (which she represented at the United Nations for a while), and in a sub-committee of the Human Rights Advisory Council of the Federal Ministry of the Interior , im Fachhochschulrat or on the jury of the Alexander Friedmann Prize , which is awarded by the ESRA Psychosocial Center . She was and is also involved in a number of international projects such as Erasmus and PHARE .

In addition to questions of training and professional standards, her work focuses on the following areas: diversity , human rights , participation concepts , health prevention , homelessness and the rights of people with disabilities . In 2003 she was involved in an expert opinion on the “nursing emergency in Austria”; in 2013/14 she and her students examined the psychosocial offers in the upper Waldviertel . It is also particularly important to her to close or at least reduce the gaps in education . She has been involved in the Essl Foundation's Zero Project since 2014 .

Publications

Editing

• Grigori, Eva / Vyslouzil, Monika (ed.) (2018): 34 encounters, social pedagogy. LIT Verlag, Vienna.
• Pantuček-Eisenbacher, Peter / Vyslouzil, Monika (eds.) (2015): 30 days of social work. Reports from practice. LIT Verlag, Vienna.
• Pantuček-Eisenbacher, Peter / Vyslouzil, Monika / Pflegerl, Johannes (eds.) (2015): Social policy interventions. A commemorative publication for Tom Schmid. St. Polten.
• Pflegerl, Johannes / Vyslouzil, Monika / Pantucek, Gertraud (ed.) (2013): Custom-fit help - social work as a contributor to social processes. commemorative publication for peter pantuček. LIT Verlag, Vienna.
• Brandstetter, Manuela / Schmid, Tom / Vyslouzil, Monika (eds.) (2012): Community Studies from Social Work. Theories and application references from research in small town / rural areas. Münster, LIT publishing house.
• Brandstetter, Manuela / Vyslouzil, Monika (ed.) (2010): Social work in the science system. From the welfare school to the chair. Wiesbaden, VS Verlag.
• Pantuček, Peter / Schmid, Tom / Vyslouzil, Monika (eds.) (2008): Law. SO - human rights and social work problems. Festschrift for Karl Dvorak. St. Polten.

Article (selection)

• Amegah, Thomas / Amort, Frank Michael / Antes, Gernot / Haas, Sabine / Knaller, Christine / Peböck, Markus / Reif, Martin / Spath-Dreyer, Ines / Sprenger, Martin / Strapatsas, Michaela / Türscherl, Elisabeth / Vyslouzil, Monika / Wolschlager, Veronika (2013): Health Impact Assessment (GFA) in Austria. Practical Guide. available online at http://bmg.gv.at/cms/home/attachments/9/2/4/CH1420/CMS1385724297223/gfa-leitfaden_20131120.pdf
• Auer, Katharina / Vyslouzil, Monika (2013): Satisfaction of clients with the quality of guardianship. Study results on the activity of the Lower Austrian regional association for guardianship and personal representation. In: iFamZ interdisciplinary journal for family law. Advice - accommodation - legal assistance . No. 2, 91-93.
• Auer, Katharina / Vyslouzil, Monika (2012): Client survey. In: zursache - newspaper of the Lower Austrian regional association for guardianship and residents' representation . No. December 2012, 1-2.
• Hengl, Stefanie / Vyslouzil, Monika (2013): Early help. A look at what is on offer in Lower Austria. In: Soziales_kapital, scientific journal of Austrian technical college courses in social work ., Vol. 9. Available online at http://soziales-kapital.at/index.php/sozialeskapital/article/view/266/407
• Nagode, Ingrid / Vyslouzil, Monika (2013): Client satisfaction with trustees of the Lower Austrian regional association for trustee and resident representatives. (NÖLV-) conclusions for an imminent administrator reform. In: SIÖ - social work in Austria . No. 2/13, 37-41.
• Pantuček, Peter / Vyslouzil, Monika (2012): Research and action in social space - local inclusion research by the Arlt Institute of the St. Pölten University of Applied Sciences. In: Brandstetter, Manuela / Schmid, Tom / Vyslouzil, Monika (eds.): Community Studies from Social Work. Theories and application references from research in small town / rural areas. Münster, LIT Verlag, 405-415.
• Sommer, Sabine / Vyslouzil, Monika (2012): Analysis and evaluation in the context of school social work. In: Bakic, Josef / Coulin-Kuglitsch, Johanna (ed.): Focus: School social work in Austria. Vienna, Löcker, 139–150.
• Vyslouzil, Monika (2015): Suppliers, recipients, partners. The changing roles of the relatives of people with mental illnesses, in: Pantuček-Eisenbacher, P., Vyslouzil, M., Pflegerl, J. (ed.), Sociopolitical Interventions. A Festschrift for Tom Schmid. FH St. Pölten, St. Pölten, pp. 139-149.
• Vyslouzil, Monika (2014): Looking at specific aspects of the implementation of the UN CRPD (Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities) in Austria. In: Social Dialogue . No. 9, Vol. 3, 12-15. available online at http://www.social-dialogue.com/SDpdf/VOL.9.pdf
• Vyslouzil, Monika (2013): Directions instead of recipes. Maria Dorothea Simon influences the profession and its training. In: Pflegerl, Johannes / Vyslouzil, Monika / Pantucek, Gertraud (eds.): Tailor-made help - social work as a contributor to societal processes. commemorative publication for peter pantuček. Münster, LIT Verlag, 93-102.
• Vyslouzil, Monika (2012): User Involvement - Thoughts for Discussion. In: SIÖ - social work in Austria . No. 3, 20-21.
• Vyslouzil, Monika (2011): Appreciation of the Center for Intercultural Psychotherapy ANKYRA. In: Community Psychiatry. Journal for the Practice of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy . No. 4, 189-191.
• Vyslouzil, Monika (2010): New and recurring problem areas require independent systematic handling. In: Brandstetter, Manuela / Vyslouzil, Monika (ed.): Social work in the science system. From the welfare school to the chair. Wiesbaden, VS Verlag, 261-269.
• Vyslouzil, Monika (2010): School social work - why, how, where, ... In: Social work in Austria (SIÖ) . No. 1, 8-12.

Individual evidence

1. ^ FH St. Pölten , staff member Monika Vyslouzil, accessed on June 15, 2015
2. ^ Arlt Institute. Accessed September 4, 2018 (German).