An exploratory/descriptive study of 33 migrant Hungarian prostitutes who travel to Switzerland for sex work was conducted in Zurich by Hungarian social workers in cooperation with Swiss social workers. A new methodology (Hungarian Street Work Interpersonal Support) was developed to compare support networks both at home and while working abroad. Vulnerability and potential risk were mapped, finding networks at ‘home’ being supportive and non-risky with the opposite occurring ‘abroad’. Little use was made of protective relationships (police and social workers) in both locations. The primary motivation for engaging in migrant sex work was to provide for their children at home.
A tanulmány központi témája a közösségivé tett olvasásélmény, melyet a szerző történetalapú foglalkozásnak nevez, és a csoportos/közösségi szociális munka eszközének ajánl. Ebben a minőségében jól elkülöníthető a különféle művészet- és biblioterápiás irányzatoktól, mert csak a segédeszköz – a történet, az olvasás, a beszélgetés – azonos, a feldolgozás keretezése, szabályozása és mélysége eltérő, célja más, emiatt a folyamat átélése is másfajta élményt nyújt a résztvevőknek, egyben másfajta „beleereszkedést” kíván meg tőlük. Emellett nem zárja ki azt, hogy a történetalapú foglalkozás élménye motiválhat a még alaposabb önmegismerésre, átjárókat nyithat egy terápiás folyamatban való részvételre.
A történetalapú foglalkozás módszerének bemutatása Janne Teller egyik művén keresztül történik. A „Semmi” című kisregény 2000-ben jelent meg Dániában. Az olvasók és szakemberek figyelmét rögtön felkeltette, hogy Teller műve előbb betiltott botránykönyv lett, aztán a dán Kulturális Minisztérium Gyermekkönyv-díjának nyertese, majd kötelező olvasmány. A könyv szövege könnyen érthető, ám a felvetett problémák nagyon mélyre visznek, ezért különböző szociokulturális hátterű csoportokban való feldolgozásra alkalmas, megfelelő módosítások mellett.
Changes in Nyiregyhaza and the Surrounding Area and Subjective Health Status. The study conducted in 2015 by the University of Debrecen Faculty of Health and the Social Department of the Nyíregyháza Mayor's Office, based on the 4 th cooperative "quality of life" research, provides an overview of the objective health status, health behavior and those factors affecting the subjective heath of the inhabitants. The research provides the most recent panel survey data and compares these results with earlier findings. The current wave was expanded to include the inhabitants living in villages of the rural region around Nyíregyháza which allowed for comparison of the health status of city and county inhabitants.Those factors affecting the subjective health status and self perceived health of the inhabitants were the same as panel results from previous years. While the differences did not reach significance, overall those sampled in 2015 reported feeling healthier than was found in previous waves. The data shows that subjective health status is influenced by the respondents' sex, age, highest level of education, marital status, if they suffer from persistent or recurrent diseases, and if they have friends or not. There was a relationship between the respondents' happiness and presupposed health. The second half of the study is restricted to the presentation of the data on the population's health and health behavior.
The paper studies how negative life events affect risk behaviour of children and young people. Calculations on the database of the ‘Hungarian youth 2012’ research suggest that negative life events are strong predictors of different types of risk behaviour like alcohol, drug abuse and suicide. According to the data people who have experienced several and more serious negative life events, more likely refuse and turn away from the norms of the adult society than those whose life proves to be less stressful. To place these results into child protection context, the study calls attention to the fact that the Hungarian child protection system does not treat each group in the fragmented society equally, although, on the basis of the incidence of threat it should. Another important message of this paper is to highlight that in addition to scientific values large-scale sociological research studies have professional and practical values as well. To support it, from the questions of the well-known Holmes-Rahe scale the authors re-developed an exploration scale (Reduced Life Events Scale). The application of the Reduced Life Event Scale (or the original Holmes-Rahe scale) allows experts to focus more on the studied issues in the process of planning services, prevention and case work. The tool might propose solutions to use the insufficient resources in a more targeted way.
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