Annual of social work, Vol. 3 No. 1, 1996.
Review article
STUDIES OF SOCIAL WORK IN CROATIA: FORMER AND ACTUAL PROBLEMS
Vlado Puljiz
; Department of Social Work, Faculty of Law, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia
Abstract
The author begins by defining social work. Then he discusses the beginnings of social workers’ education throughout the world. The attention is drawn to the process of so called academization of the studies and changes in conception of social work. It puts social workers in front of new, more complex tasks. In the second part of the article the education of social workers in Croatia is discussed. Three stages are separated: the high school, the interfaculty study and the study within the Faculty of Law. In the final part of the article the actual problems and the future development of the social work studies are discussed. The author emphasizes the problem of staff, to which is related the problem of scientific field, postgraduate and doctoral studies. With regard to complex tasks which social workers currently face, the author estimates a high quality postgraduate education to be of decisive significance.
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198157
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Publication date:
9.12.1996.
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