Soziale Arbeit

Based on the fact that part of the open child and youth work in Switzerland is supported by church institutions and that the reproduction of attitudes plays an important role in working with young people, the article uses a quantitative survey to...

From the perspective of social work, the following article first develops the concept of participation and then links it with the capabilities approach. This creates a model in which both societal environmental factors as well as a person's...

The article summarizes the results of a qualitative study on diversity in open youth work from the perspective of professionals. The open door to the youth center is mentioned as a prerequisite for young people to access and an open attitude on the...

Counselling in open youth work with its low-threshold settings is hardly discussed in the professional discourse of social work. Based on an explorative research project as part of an Erasmus+ project, this article presents results on the specific...

Digital spaces challenge the notion of a concept of hybridity, the relevance of which for social work will be outlined in this article based on the platforms TikTok and Twitch. Such hybridization can be conceptually framed with different approaches...

How can professional identities that manage a consistent balance between closeness and distance toward the client, evolve in caring professions? To describe such professional identities, the author introduces the term approachability. To retrace the...

In view of the need to integrate digitalization thematically into social work degree programs, this paper attempts to design a guiding competency model. The framework for this is provided by the ecological systems theory according to Bronfenbrenner,...

The discussion about the impacts and effectiveness of services in social work is strongly influenced by a debate about the possibilities of measuring impacts. For example, it is questioned whether effects in the practice of social work can be...

Based on the Total Pain concept, which is firmly anchored in palliative care, the resulting challenges with regard to the realization of the holistic claim are first presented on the basis of the setting “palliative care unit” and it is shown...

What is the current state of gender equity in the leadership ranks of German civil society? Thanks to the annual monitoring of FAIR SHARE of Women Leaders, data on the structural underrepresentation of women in leadership in civil society...