Social work is an institutional activity that is based on specific legal principles, certain values and ethical standards. Not all life situations encountered by a social worker can be regulated legally or raise ethical concerns. At every stage of the social worker’s professional activity, there may be a conflict of values because in everyday professional practice the most important role is played by the good of the individual.
Social work theory is based on two codes: legal and ethical, which facilitates decision-making but often causes ethical dilemmas among social workers.

In the field of social work, psychotherapy, psychiatry, pastoral care and pedagogy, supervision becomes more and more important - an independent form of vocational guidance in Germany after World War II. Supervision is seen as a way to reduce stress, as well as to maintain the personality of the employee (helper) and the awake and living customer as a central tool in these professions. The characteristics and application of supervision in German-speaking countries have been clarified and the importance of social work has been discussed. The self-reflexivity, processiveness and emancipation of supervision are emphasized here.

The phenomenon of co-addiction is a social and individual problem of the person affected. Most scientific publications and research refer to the problem of addiction, addicted person and therapy of a person who has an addiction. A deficiency is visible in studies related to co-addicts. The importance of social harmfulness of this issue is often diminished or even overlooked, which can be interpreted as underestimating the effects of co-addicted people, as well as neglecting women - partners, fiancés or wives of alcoholics in the family-oriented help process with the problem of alcohol dependence. An important assumption of this article was to develop a co-dependent profile based on a qualitative and quantitative analysis of data collected in the research process, to propose modifications to be made to the aid system in order to streamline the processes under which programs for getting out of codependency are subject.

Support for people leaving penitentiary institutions is a very important means for correct readaptation, good functioning in society and a lack of returns “behind bars”. Units ending the sentence should be made aware of where they can seek the help they need. The support and positive action of the probation officer, family and relatives is extremely important for the return to society to take place correctly and for the individual not to feel stigmatized and excluded.

The penalty of deprivation of liberty is a sanction applicable to the person who committed the offense. Penitentiary isolation is the most severe form of isolation, being a reaction of the state to violation of the norms of law. Such compulsory isolation, the way of protecting the society against an asocial unit is the source of specific features of prison reality, which includes, among others: limiting contacts with relatives, compulsion to be surrounded by strangers, order to observe discipline and order, deprivation (alienation) of various the type of embedded needs (information deprivation, sensory deprivation), loss or limitation of certain activities, e.g. performing certain activities in the area of freedom of movement. Analysis of penitentiary activities, but also the effects of psychosocial imprisonment is the basis for working with the convict. These issues are the subject of an article that can be a support for penitentiary interactions in the aspect of education, therapy or re-socialization.

D. Mackler’s film entitled “Open Dialog. The Alternative Finnish Approach to Healing Psychosis” is based on a series of interviews with creators, practitioners and promoters of the Open Dialog Approach. It presents the main assumptions and therapeutic strategies and techniques used in this method. Open Dialog is based on conducting open therapeutic meetings involving professionals, family members and close relatives within the social network. Open dialogue is guided by the principles of immediate help, social network perspective,flexibility and mobility, responsibility, psychological continuity, tolerance of uncertainty and dialogism. Neuroleptic drugs are used to a small extent. The method is popular in Western Lapland and achieves enormous therapeutic success. There are attempts of implement therapeutic strategies based on the Open Dialogue in some Polish centers. Assumptions of this approach are part of the model of environmental psychiatric care promoted in the National Mental Health Program.

Contemporary debate over the school contains an element of discussion on the lack of proportionality between requirements and freedom, punishment and reward, proximity and distance, spontaneity and rationality. Attention was paid to the role of student’s well-being, his ability to accept successes and failures. There is even a new phenomenon,  hich is the dependence of charges on praise, related to such phenomena as “emotional addiction”, “drug of love”, psychological poisoning “which is associated with a new understanding of punishment in upbringing. A young person, as an addicted to praise, develops an unrestrained need to appreciate, recognize, admire and think positively about oneself. He expresses this in his statements to parents, teachers and peers, seeking positive reinforcement. They become a source of  obsession and stagnation in personal development. Addicted to the praise, the young man is looking for pleasure in themselves, which makes him often unable to care for others and establish a real relationship  ith them. The quality of society not only depends on education, but it also testifies to it. To a very large extent, it depends on its shape whether in the future students will be only efficient tools in the hands of rulers and employers, or whether they will become independent individuals with high intellect, creative and aware of their place in the world.

Nowadays, the place of man in the social world is designated, among others through his professional activity. It determines the place of man in the world of a social group, integrates with the environment in a unitary and group way. At the same time, professional work and social relations emerging from it as well as formal and informal arrangements  re the simplest way to social integration. He shapes human personality, determines the place of man in the world of values, in the material and social world. An important role in understanding work is culture. Hence the need to promote humanization of human work, thus contributing to development. The development that  ccomplishes through work makes it possible for man to achieve a moral personality, which is a multiplication of human’s natural ability to value moral human persons. The article indicates the need to “work on work” so that work not only improves things (work products), but above all, improves the working person, therefore constantly restore human work moral dimension (work as a moral value), and promote attitudes more “to be” than “have”.