Mediation as an alternative form of resolving family conflicts in the opinion of the social workers

Usually wards of social welfare institutions are families in which the problems in the implementation of economic function along with other difficulties in everyday functioning at the level of marriage and family. A social worker can help its clients by acting as a mediator, mediating in resolving their conflicts.Furthermore, the attitude of mediation should be entered in this social professions. The purpose of this article is to reflect on the process of mediation in the context of the ability to resolve disputes at various levels of married family life in optics employees of social welfare institutions. Important seems to be, as far as the usefulness of the approach of the mediation leads the representatives of the profession aid into education in this direction.

Types and roles of mediation in social work

Both social work and mediation are disciplines in the process of dynamic development and professionalization. The aim of the article is to reflect on the place, role and possible application of mediation in the area of social work in Poland. At first, possible relations between social work and mediation are presented. Secondly, types of mediation possibly useful in social work are described. Then, advantages of implementation of elements of mediation (referred to as ‘mediation approach’) in social work are discussed.

Family Caregivers of older people

Demographic and social changes lead to the increasing numbers of people requiring care and the decreasing number of potential caregivers. This phenomenon is particularly difficult in Poland. Due to the lack of system solutions, but also Polish culture, care is organized primarily in the private sphere. For that reasons it is necessary to provide support for informal carers of the elderly. The purpose of this article is to diagnose the situation of family carers; types of support, and major problems that are associated with care. Article is based on qualitative research conducted among persons performing care on dependent seniors. Based on obtain information types of support and the types of care were distinguished, as well as problems resulting from the role played by the examined person.

In permanently introducing this new section to our periodical, we wish to call the reader's attention to a unique approach we are consciously taking. In a desire to identify impending foci in our field, we have invited the youngest of our colleagues - MA and PhD candidates in social work - to act as our reviewers. Furthermore, considering the vast multitude of scholarly articles published annually, we have asked our students to primarily focus on this segment which is more likely to reflect the most recent findings. That said, we have not set a strict date range in the hope that our reviewers will freely discover or recover studies which might have been overlooked heretofore.

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