Social Work in the CR - RPZ02 (Current Situation and Challenges)

• Title: SPV-Social Work in CR I
• Guaranteed by: Department of Social Work (27-PSP)
• Faculty: Protestant Theological Faculty
• Actual: from 2022
• Semester: summer
• Points: 5
• E-Credits: 5
• Examination process: summer s.:
• Hours per week, examination: summer s.:2/0, Ex [HT]
• Capacity: unlimited / unknown (15)
• Min. number of students: unlimited
• 4EU+: no
• Virtual mobility / capacity: no
• State of the course: taught
• Language: English
• Teaching methods: full-time
• Teaching methods: full-time
• Note: course can be enrolled in outside the study plan; enabled for web enrollment
• Guarantor: Mgr. Bc. Eliška Hudcová, Ph.D.; doc. PhDr. Eva Křížová, Ph.D.
• Incompatibility : RPZ02B
• Interchangeability : ASCK100133
• Is incompatible with: RPZ02B

Annotation

Last update: Mgr. Bc. Eliška Hudcová, Ph.D. (28.02.2024)

Předmět je v LS 2024/2025 zajišťován předmětem FF ASCK100133 Introduction to Social Work and Social Welfare.


This course is offered to ERASMUS+ students at the Protestant Theological Faculty, Charles University Prague, taught in English.
The course aims to introduce major social issues and concerns in CR which are closely associated with social work: socio-economic development of the society – major trends, current social structure and emerging problems, approaches to solve them and basic coping strategies of target groups. The course will explore theories and concepts related to social exclusion and integration, legal concerns and brig examples of practical applications to be analysed and discussed by the course participants.
The course is taught over a semester (13 sessions) with one lecture or seminar each week.

Aim of the course

Last update: Mgr. Bc. Eliška Hudcová, Ph.D. (14.12.2021)

The course introduces international students to social work in the Czech Republic, basic concepts and theories. Further understand the system of social services, social economy, social exclusion. Students will learn about different approaches and methods of social work with selected target groups; they will learn the basic research techniques.

Literature

Last update: Mgr. Bc. Eliška Hudcová, Ph.D. (08.12.2023)

Borzaga.C; Defourny.J. Eds. (2001) The Emergence of Social Enterprise. London Routledge.

Gojová, A., Gřundělová, B., Cilečková, K., Chrenková, M. 2020. Path toward a Child-Centered Approach in the Czech Social and Legal Protection of Children. Sustainability, 12(21), 8897, https://doi.org/10.3390/su12218897

Junová, I., Slaninová, G. 2018. Topical questions of the substitute family care in the Czech Republic with a special attention to the process of foster families preparation, SHS Web of Conferences, 51(03002), https://doi.org/10.1051/shsconf/20185103002

Lashin v. Russia, judgement of the European Court of Human Rights delivered on 22 January 2013, application no. 33117/02. Accessible at http://hudoc.echr.coe.int/

Lyons, P., Kindlerová, R. (ed.). (2016) Contemporary Czech Society. Sociologický ústav (Akademie věd ČR)

Person-centred planning. On-line. Accessible at: http://www.autism.org.uk/working-with/social-care-and-support/person-centred-planning.aspx

Shtukaturov v. Russia, judgement of the European Court of Human Rights delivered on 27 March 2008, application no. 44009/05. Accessible at http://hudoc.echr.coe.int/)

Structure of Social Services - current status in the Czech Republic. On-line. Accessible at:http://www.mpsv.cz/files/clanky/1998/2646.pdf

Sýkora v. The Czech Republic, judgement of the European Court of Human Rights delivered on 22 November 2012, application no. 23419/07. Accessible at http://hudoc.echr.coe.int/

Večerník, J. (2009) Czech Society in the 2000s. Academia.

Wolleb G, Daraio A. New social risks, Europa. Accessible at: http://ec.europa.eu/regional_policy/sources/docgener/studies/pdf/challenges2020/regional_challenges_new_social_risk.pdf


Other Web Sources:

Articles related to the transformation of institutions. Accessible on-line at: http://www.trass.cz/TrassDefault.aspx?rid=1&app=NavBar&grp=AtonPortlets&mod=Menu&sta=NavBarMenu&pst=NavBarLightMenu&p1=OID_INT_2295&p2=RoundPanel_BOOL_True&p3=ExpandAll_BOOL_True&p4=ShowRoundPanel_BOOL_True&acode=1612

Articles related to social economy. Accessible on-line at: www.ceske-socialni-podnikani.cz; http://www.socialenterprise.org.uk/

Syllabus

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1. Introduction to the course. Social work in the Czech Republic, history, basic concepts and ideas

2.  The Czech society - social reflection

3. The legal capacity of people with disabilities in Czech and European case law

4. The system of social services in the Czech Republic

5. Social economy, social entrepreneurship

6. Social exclusion

7. Transformation of the institutional care to the form of services provided in a community

8. Social work with the special target groups in the health-social borderline (old people, people with dementia, people with mental illness, people with long-term illness)

9. Research in social work - examples

10. Developing and presenting ideas for the final essay

11. Social farming and nature-based approaches to human well-being

12. Community work

13. PPT presentations and discussion about presented ideas

Course completion requirements

Last update: Mgr. Bc. Eliška Hudcová, Ph.D. (28.02.2024)

Final examination:

1)      Final semester paper (4-5 pages), by July 1^st 2024. 

2) PowerPoint presentation of the final paper ideas to be discussed at the last workshop before the Summer