Under common circumstances, adolescent age is the period of a young person having to cope with many life problems (resolving issues if personal maturity which increases, respect decreases self-confidence, changing quality of interests, etc.) We can claim that adolescent age itself involves existential character. If this process involves a serious disease, the situation is really demanding. The aim of the chapter is to describe the process of seeking their own identity in the situation of coping with occurrence of an oncologic disease.
The paper explains the importance of the role of social workers in multidisciplinary teams providing continuous care for oncologic patients. Abroad, oncology social workers are members of these teams. The authors propose adopting this practice and involving social workers in oncology treatment in Slovakia since this approach is currently missing. An information guide (brochure) is proposed to raise awareness of the social preventive measures, social treatment, and social patient care, to explain and justify the social risk aspects and consequences of cancer, and to address it in terms of social work. In terms of the multidisciplinary approach, the paper empirically examines the attitudes of oncologists and oncology nurses towards such a brochure. The results indicate that the respondents have a positive attitude to the brochure and to social care for cancer patients.
A specific feature of the Roma community is socialization on two levels -integration into their own Roma community, and integration into the majority of society. This paper focuses on a specific group of adolescents, namely the Roma youth, while the social inclusion of this youth is considered by authors an important phenomenon, from which the life of the individual further unfolds, as well as risk behaviour manifested in it, in which adolescents participate to a greater extent compared to other developmental stages. On the empirical level, this paper focuses on the need for social inclusion and achieved social inclusion of respondents. The research sample consisted of Roma youth living in marginalized settlements in eastern Slovakia, and respondents living outside of Roma settlements. The result was the finding that these groups of adolescents do not differ in the need of social inclusion, but the achieved social inclusion demonstrated more in Roma adolescents living outside of the settlements. By comparing these two values, it has been shown that Roma adolescents living in settlements feel pushed away, unworthy of the attention of others, and underestimated. On the other hand, Roma living outside of settlements feel harassed, oppressed, and subjected to group pressure and social conventions. UDC Classification: 304,
The presented study defines the period of adolescence in the context of particularities of oncological disease as a period of searching for one's social and personal identity. If a serious disease enters this process, the real crisis occurs. From being diagnosed, during the entire treatment until coming back to the life among their peers, the ill adolescents have to use various strategies to be able to cope with the disease. One of the possibilities how to strengthen these coping strategies is also educating of ill adolescents, while e-learning can be undoubtedly considered its modern part.
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