Soziale Arbeit

The number of one­person households has been rising steadily since the 1980s. Living alone requires active forms of establishing social contact to avoid social isolation and loneliness. The contact restrictions of the Covid 19 pandemic exacerbated...

Social work in schools promotes educational opportunities and personality development of children and young people, in awareness of an interdependence between (school) education and social inequalities. This contribution is shown alongside three...

From the perspective of social work in Austria, the relationship between social work and social movements in times of multiple ecological crises is examined. Using the example of local struggles towards social and ecological justice in spaces, the...

Urban transformation is driven, among other things, by population growth and the need for housing, which is why redensification is becoming more important as a means of creating living space. Denser social life is associated with conflict potential,...

In this article the action-guiding ideas of personal relationship design of social counselors in their role as legal advocacy groups from a social work perspective are analyzed. The focus is on the interactions between the relationships offered by...

We work “holistically” (ganzheitlich)! Since the beginning of modern social work, this term has been found not only in everyday practice, but also in professional discourse. The recourse to holism is based on the ambition to understand people...

The Section for Clinical Social Work of the German Association for Social Work (DGSA) is currently working on a social therapy training curriculum for the treatment of hard-to-reach patients. The present study explores the need for and the content...

Business families are characterized by close couplings of families and companies; moreover, they intend to pass on responsibility of ownership to the next generation. In such families, two areas that are usually separate overlap: the private and...

With the introduction of Hartz IV, the discourses on poverty and the lower class intensified in society and the media. Especially in scripted reality programmes on poverty issues, those affected are portrayed as stupid, uneducated and unable to...

The number of masculinists in Germany is increasing. They are radicalizing and propagating extreme misogyny to the point of deadly hatred. The prevention of violence against women is the task of social work as a human rights profession. Masculinists...