Soziale Arbeit

The journal Soziale Arbeit will celebrate its 75th anniversary in 2026. On this occasion, the editorial team takes the opportunity to examine the organization of scientific information infrastructure, which includes scholarly journals. The article...

The paper provides a systematic overview of empowerment and power-sharing concepts in civic education and social work. Empowerment and power-sharing are regarded as key factors in enhancing educational opportunities and reducing barriers within the...

Open child and youth work (OKJA) is under financial and personnel pressure. In 2023, 7.3 million children, adolescents, and young adults participated in child and youth work programmes. According to the Federal Statistical Office, this is 65 percent...

The importance of online psychosocial counseling increased significantly due to facility closures as part of the measures to combat the coronavirus pandemic. This article critically examines implementation ideas for youth social work in the school...

This qualitative study examines professionalization processes in dual social work degree programs based on 77 interviews. It focuses on the experiences and expectations of students, practical instructors, and teachers. Structural deficits in...

This article examines structurally similar biographical experiences of social workers and service users and their relevance for professionalism. Based on expert interviews, it is shown that such experiences are negotiated ambivalently – as a risk...

The article examines the significance of network structures for the school-to-work transition, with a focus on peripheral regions. It analyzes the specific logics and interconnections of vocational orientation and youth welfare networks,...

Digitalization is transforming social spaces and merging analog and digital dimensions. Existing social-spatial approaches often treat digital spaces merely as an add-on, disregarding their fluid transitions. To conceptually capture these...

Daycare social work is a new field of social work that originated from local projects and pilot programs and has seen increasing expansion. As part of the preparations for the Quality Development Act („Qualitätsentwicklungsgesetz“), which aims...

Since the end of the pandemic at the very latest, there has been a partial paradigmatic shift in the public perception of school social work. It is now anchored in the new German Child and Youth Welfare Act, more valued in schools and promoted and...