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This paper presents the results of an Austria-wide quantitative online survey of social workers on the use of digital technologies. The focus is on the questions of which (framework) conditions are necessary to integrate digital technologies...

Social work and politics are interrelated: socio-political norms are the basis for social work, but social work should also help shape these framework conditions. It can carry out this task both “on the job” and “off the job”. A third way,...

In the second part of the article, the tasks and methods of historical science are presented. This involves source research and analysis, source criticism and interpretation, as well as historical discourse analysis. Finally, exemplary library and...

Anxiety disorders are widespread in Germany. The steadily growing numbers are seen as an indication of increasing mental stress in the population. This article asks whether mental training in psychosocial counselling can be an answer to the...

The realisation of participation can become more preconditional for frail elderly people. On the one hand, professional assistance systems have a supportive effect, but on the other hand they also restrict participation due to tight regulations and...

In contrast to the self-evident and ubiquitous nature of criticism, well-founded criticism in the scientific sense is the exception rather than the rule. Such criticism comprises four steps, which are both cognitively and emotionally demanding. On...

The first part of the paper traces different phases of historical research in social work, such as historicism and social, everyday and discourse history. The second part will appear in the upcoming May issue of the journal and will deal with tasks...

Using the example of the three social women's schools sponsored by the Catholic Women's Association, the article provides an overview of the beginnings of the professionalization of social work, limited to the period from 1909 to the end of the...

The article asks for basic concepts of family education. With the concept of doing family as well as the institutionalization of childhood, social dynamics are emphasized to which families have to relate and which at the same time affect the...

Quality in all-day education is mainly examined through dimensions derived from research. The genuine perspective of children is often not considered. This article examines quality from the children's perspective. Our results show that real and...

The text discusses professional conflicts of case processing in public employment services against the background of structural conditions of activation policy. It explores the question of which aspects of counselling and social work professionalism...