Annual of social work, Vol. 20 No. 1, 2013.
Review article
ECONOMIC CRISIS AS A POTENTIAL DRIVER OF THE SOCIAL WORK PROFESSION TRANSFORMATION
Ana Miljenović
orcid.org/0000-0002-3486-0696
; Department of Social work, Faculty of Law, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia
Abstract
The economic crisis worldwide and in Croatia primarily caused significant changes in the economic living standard. However, the crisis is growingly being discussed as not merely an economic but also a social crisis making visible the collective entities deconstruction, and the shifting of responsibility to an individual in the world where resources are becoming available exclusively to certain segments of the society. In social work, the economic crisis motivated discussions on whether social work as a profession faces its own crisis by accepting principles of neoliberal economy through focus on marketing, consumerism and menagerialism. The paper presents three levels of potential implications of the crisis for social work: occurrence of social problems, influence on modes of organising social work practice and drivers of the future social work profession development.
Key words:
Keywords
economic crisis; neoliberalism; social work crisis; critical social work
Hrčak ID:
104552
URI
Publication date:
3.6.2013.
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