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This article examines pedagogical relationships in open child and youth work (OKJA) in the context of protection concepts. Based on group discussions with professionals, it becomes clear that trust and reliability are central conditions for working...

This paper explores the potential of graph-based modeling of bibliographic metadata for discourse-analytical research. By transforming literature data into a graph database, relations between texts, authors, and concepts become visible. This enables...

This article examines the social-emotional dimension of guidance in social work practice programmes, in particular emotional work, biographical work, and interaction design with students. Based on an empirically reconstructed model, these aspects...

Based on an empirical study, this article concerns the understanding and development of a professional attitude from the perspective of professionals from different fields of activities of social work after several years of practice. The starting...

This article provides an insight into an emerging prevention landscape in which practitioners have refined or newly developed approaches and methods of social work and political education for use in the digital space. It draws on findings from the...

The increasing visibility of right-wing extremism among young people presents substantial challenges for the field of youth work. This article examines how practitioners articulate youth violence and right-wing extremist self-presentation in...

This article examines the current peak in interpellations for neutrality in civic education and classifies them as a delegitimization strategy that is used to address especially the field of emancipatory youth work. On the basis of empirical results...

In the context of the emergence of the NSU in the 1990s, the accepting youth work with right-wing youths in the former youth club “Winzerclub” in Jena-Winzerla is considered significant. This assumption is questioned in the article. On the basis...

This article deals with counseling centers for victims of right-wing, racist and anti-Semitic violence. The focus is on the struggle to develop and maintain an appropriate level of professionalism in this field of practice. Based on reconstructively...

In 2024, the BMB and the counseling centers organized within it conducted numerous consultations with social work agents. It became clear that social work is diversely challenged by the current drift to the right. Questions are: How should I, as a...

The article presents long-term, practical experiences from qualificatory process support of youth workers in regions strongly marked by neo-Nazi players and nationalistic discourses, and puts them up for discussion. It is shown that it is...