Filozofska istraživanja, Vol. 39 No. 1, 2019.
Preliminary communication
https://doi.org/10.21464/fi39112
Historical Development of the Institutionalisation of Vulnerable Groups. Example of the Adult Shelter of the National Committee of the City of Zagreb
Jelena Seferović
orcid.org/0000-0002-6209-7114
; Filozofska fakulteta, Univerza v Ljubljani, Aškerčeva cesta 2, SI–1000 Ljubljan
Abstract
This article explores the activities of the Adult Shelter of the National Committee of the City of Zagreb since its foundation, from 1953 to 1978. The focus is on the consideration of the policy of taking care of vulnerable groups in social welfare institutions in the city of Zagreb, including persons with mental disorders. It seeks to illuminate the beginnings of the long-term care of the latter population in the homes for mentally ill adults, today known as homes for adults. In connection to this, their social stigmatisation and tendency of placement into spatially segregated objects are discussed. The research showed that the strategies of social protection and mental health protection, despite the then-advocated idea of equality between social categories, were at the time oriented towards the protection of the majority of community from persons with mental disorders.
Keywords
social policy; institutionalisation of vulnerable groups; social marginalization; people with mental disorders; group homes for adults
Hrčak ID:
224017
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Publication date:
6.3.2019.
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