Annual of social work, Vol. 16 No. 3, 2009.
Review article
INTEGRATIVE SOCIAL WORK APPROACH AS A CONTEXT FOR UNDERSTANDING THE INDIVIDUAL SOCIAL CARE PLAN
Marina Ajduković
; Faculty of Law, University of Zagreb, Department of social work, Zagreb, Croatia
KIristina Urbanc
; Faculty of Law, University of Zagreb, Department of social work, Zagreb, Croatia
Abstract
The article deals with the issue of introducing the individual social care plan as one of the initiatives pertaining to the long-awaited social care system reform. The ideas of the individual social care plan are placed within a theoretical framework of the integrative social work approach and in the context of numerous changes which have occurred in the last twenty years at the conceptual and practical level of offering integrated and coordinated services to service users, i.e. case management, care management, person-centred planning, etc. Based on the experience that, in order to change the organisation of the Centres for Social Care and develop efficient social care services, the changes to the legal framework are not sufficient but it is necessary to change the social services paradigm underlined by the user perspective and empowerment of individuals, groups and communities, the authors draw attention to challenges and necessary prerequisites which should be taken into account for the changes to be applied in practice.
Keywords
integrative social work; social care system reform; user perspective; individual social care plan; management of the planned change process
Hrčak ID:
47806
URI
Publication date:
30.1.2010.
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