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Social Work and Therapy in Shelters

Kateřina Glumbíková, Barbora Gřundělová, Ivana Kaniová, Anna Krausová, Kateřina Lukešová, Zuzana Stanková, Marie Špiláčková

Abstract:
The authors of this article want to give an insight into life in shelters from the perspective of their residents. Through partial data from researches dealing with the health of shelter users, they try to answer whether people living in shelters, subjectively have psychological problems; what kind of help they expect from shelters, and how they evaluate the help that they receive/or do not receive. Shelters are conceived here as a specific environment that provides support, but also takes into account that they maybe also a source of potential stress. People living in shelters have specific needs in the area of mental health and well-being, for help with difficulties in those areas they look towards social workers. In this context, the question is whether the (social/psycho) therapy is a part of social work with the residents of shelters. The discussion concludes that it is, but is also influenced by the accumulation of social worker roles in shelters.

Keywords:
homelessness, shelters, social work, sociotherapy, therapy

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