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Social work and its place in other helping professions from the perspektive of social workers OSPOD
HOJDAROVÁ, Markéta
This diploma thesis deals with social work and its relative position among other helping professions. Social work is described from the perspective of social workers at OSPOD (Department of Social and Legal Protection of Children). Social work is an interdisciplinary field, which means that social workers often cooperate with other professionals. Cooperation is executed in the form of an interdisciplinary team where it may happen that one of the professions dominates. The domination of one profession over another hegemony. The essence of hegemony is the desire for power while the oppressed group is able to follow the ideology of its own discipline only to a certain extent. Although social work keeps evolving, and so does the approach from the side of professionals, there are cases when social workers experience negative attitude. This is the reason why this thesis is focused on the standing of social work within other helping professions.The objective of the diploma thesis was to map the position of social work in other helping professions from the perspective of social workers at OSPOD. Was set one research question HVO1: What is the status of social work with other helping professions? To secure the integrity and completeness of information, two partial research questions were set and divided into individual categories. DVO1: How does the social workers OSPOD cooperation with the helping professions? DVO2: What factors affect the status of social work? The investigation found out that social work, particularly in the area of social-legal protection of children, is valued equally and social workers have an important role. Most informants had a positive experience with cooperation with other professionals. In case of occurrence of negative attitude, we cannot talk about hegemony but rather about the level of willingness to cooperate. It turned out that the personality of a specific professional affects the position of social work significantly, and equal standing is supported by the role of coordinator held by the respective social worker. The questioned social workers were aware of the changing attitude to social work from the side of professionals who realize the demands of social work and perceive this discipline as an equal profession. However, this fact does not apply to the public because, as the interviewed social workers confirmed, the public's opinion about social workers has not changed yet and it has retained the concept of "evil aunts" who take away children. The thesis can be used as an information material for social workers about their relative position among other helping professionals. It can also be a source of motivation in need to communicate the necessity and importance of social work to the public, but also to other professionals.
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Social Work with Seniors as Victims of Crime Theft and Deception
HOJDAROVÁ, Markéta
This bachelor?s thesis is focused on senior, as a victim of a theft crime and fraud and, in connection to the consequences of this problem, on social work. The theoretical part describes the age in general and its division, the changes that are age related and have an impact on the situation when senior becomes a frequent target of offenders then followed by theft crimes, scams and their forms, especially doorstep selling and promotional events, theoretical part also includes preventive measures related to fraud and theft, and in the consequences of crime, the social work with seniors as a victims of a crime is described here. The aim of this bachelor?s thesis is to identify the most common form of crime and fraud committed against seniors, then the awareness of seniors about the danger of theft and fraud and knowledge and following the preventive measures by the seniors. I stated the main research questions: What are the most common forms of theft crime and fraud committed against seniors? Are the seniors informed about possible dangers of theft? Are the seniors informed about possible dangers of fraud? What preventive measures are followed by seniors not to become a victim of theft crime? What preventive measures are followed by seniors not to become a victim of fraud? The partial research questions were assigned to main research questions that determine whether the seniors know the dangers of doorstep selling and promotional events, where the seniors feel the most vulnerable to fraud and theft, what preventive measures about theft and fraud they know and whether they follow the preventive measures. For the practical part of the thesis, the qualitative research was chosen whose. For gaining of the data, the asking method and technique of semi-controlled interview were used. The questions of semi-controlled interview are divided into four areas, where two areas are related to theft and fraud and related doorstep selling and promotional events and other two areas are related to preventive measures, always in connection to theft of fraud. The results are, for the first research question: What are the most common forms of theft crime and fraud committed against seniors? evaluated by secondary analysis of data and the rest of questions by method of capturing formulas (,,gestalts"). The results of this bachelor?s thesis showed, that the most common form of the theft crime committed against seniors, are the thefts directly in the flat of the senior, who is robbed even of their life savings right after allowing the stranger to go into the flat. It showed, that in relation to the most common form of fraud crime, the seniors are most frequently cheated when signing unfavourable contracts either during doorstep selling or promotional events. The promotional events are the hot topic of this year, as in the fight against this events, the documentary film ,,Šmejdi" was filmed, showing the seniors being cheated on them. The knowledge gained thanks to this bachelor?s thesis can be used as a basis for extension of information about the issue to seniors and also as a source of information for social workers working with seniors.
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