At the heart of the family psychoeducational approach is the need expressed by families experiencing significant burdens in caring for their ill relatives for more information and concrete advice about their relatives' illness and treatment. The programs reported in the literature that have been developed to respond to these needs have shown significant positive results. It is hypothesized in this study that the educational aspect of these programs is a significant mode of action or core component of these programs. To test the effectiveness of this core or minimal educational module directed toward families of persons with a chronic mental illness, an all-day educational workshop was conducted with family members (N = 22) who live with a relative with a schizophrenic illness. Results attest to the benefits of an educational model of intervention with families of persons with a chronic mental illness. The study offers some preliminary implications, both theoretical and practical, for the role of social workers in working with caregivers of the chronically mentally ill
Data from 1,110 privately funded human service programs show that programs with a faith component vary significantly as to how faith is conceptualized, presented to program participants, understood as related to how participants change, and included as a program outcome. Many of the study's participating programs are part of voluntary community organizations that are faith-based, run by staff and volunteers motivated by deeply held religious convictions, and seek to help people in need at the local level, most often with little public support. The study offers an important beginning step toward an empirically based conceptual classification of the type and degree of participant exposure to a faithrelated service component.
Pályaválasztása során sok keresztény hallgató találja a szociális munkát vallásos hitével összeegyeztethetőnek. De nem sok idő kell ahhoz, hogy szociális munkás képzésük során ezek a hallgatók elkezdjék felismerni a sokrétű feszültséget, ami a vallásos hitük, a szolgálatok lelkülete és a szociális munkás hivatás világi értékei között mutatkozik. Ebben a tanulmányban szeretném körülírni, vagy pontosabban újból bevezetni az elhívás vallásos modelljét, ahogy azt a keresztény szociális munkások használják manapság, és használták a múltban, hogy összekössék a keresztény hitet a professzionális szociális munka gyakorlatával.
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