Current Challenges for Social Work: Stereotyping as an Obstacle to the Integration of Marginalized Groups Into Society

Kondrla, Peter; Tvrdoň, Miroslav; Tkáčová, Hedviga

doi:10.21125/iceri.2020.0870

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“…Happiness is influenced by marriage, meaningful and well-paid work, good social relationships with family or friends, being part of a community, and personal freedom and values, including religion [23,32,43,44]. Education does not correlate with happiness [45].…”

Section: Happinessmentioning

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Happiness in Czechia during the COVID-19 Pandemic

2021

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The unprecedented growth of prosperity in developed countries, including the countries of Central and Eastern Europe, interrupted by the economic crisis in 2008–2009, came to a halt at the beginning of 2020. This was due to the outbreak of the COVID-19 respiratory disease pandemic, for which no cure was known in June 2020. The response of governments in the form of declaring a state of emergency and closing national and regional borders for several months had serious economic and, above all, psychological consequences. Anxiety, depression, and possibly suicides were expected to increase. In this paper, we focused on the experience of happiness, understood as positive emotion, expressing the highest degree of well-being. The conceptualization of happiness is based on the analysis of six indicators. The aim of the paper was to explore the experience of happiness during the COVID-19 pandemic in Czechia. Two hypotheses were formulated in terms of the expected effects of this pandemic on the experience of happiness. Measuring happiness in one region of the Czechia on a scale of 0–10 using both face-to-face methods and social networks yielded different results from those expected.

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Section: Happinessmentioning

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Happiness in Czechia during the COVID-19 Pandemic

2021

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“…Among the most interesting and recorded in the WOS databases are the annual conferences ICERI, EDULEARN, and INTED in Spain. In 2020, from among the most interesting and valuable papers from these conferences can be mentioned: [59][60][61][62][63][64][65][66].…”

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How to Keep University Active during COVID-19 Pandemic: Experience from Slovakia

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The paper outlines the adverse consequences and challenges induced by COVID-19 pandemic for the whole world and for universities in particular. The example of Constantine the Philosopher University in Nitra illustrates the difficulties and challenges caused by the pandemic in relation to the two main activities arising from the university mission-teaching and research. It presents some particular aspects of the university activities adversely affected by COVID-19 and shares the measures to minimize the resulted damages. Furthermore, it demonstrates that, despite complications induced by COVID-19, teaching, research, and international cooperation have been successfully continued.

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“…The countries of former Czechoslovakia did not escape this situation either [8]. Therefore, we can agree with Kondrla et al that "the need for systematic social work and community social work is proving to be relevant; all the more so is the need for social workers who would be willing to bring positive elements into this specific 2 of 16 environment" [9]. Relevant topics in the context of this goal appear to be, for example, social issues about the education and self-education of social workers and social work assistants, who have found themselves in the middle of a pandemic.…”

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The Phenomenon of Social and Pastoral Service in Eastern Slovakia and Northwestern Czech Republic during the COVID-19 Pandemic: Comparison of Two Selected Units of Former Czechoslovakia in the Context of the Perspective of Positive Solutions

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Čergeťová

Králik

et al. 2022

IJERPH

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This study seeks to explain the differences in the perception of social and pastoral service after the first and second wave pandemic in 2020 among the inhabitants of two neighbouring states, both parts of the former unified Czechoslovakia. Our research study compares subjective perception, needs, and participation among inhabitants of eastern Slovakia and north-western Czech Republic in social and pastoral service during the COVID-19 pandemic. The research sample consisted of a healthy population from the Czech Republic (n = 496) and Slovakia (n = 484) over 16 years of age, of which 63% (n = 617) were women and 37% (n = 363) men. The level of education ranged from primary to postgraduate. The research sample consisted of 623 (63.6%) participants with religious affiliation and 357 (36.4%) without religion. The level of perception, needs, and participation of the participants in social and pastoral service was obtained based on a non-standardised questionnaire. The results of our study confirmed several differences in the areas studied.

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Current Challenges for Social Work: Stereotyping as an Obstacle to the Integration of Marginalized Groups Into Society

Cited by 6 publications

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Happiness in Czechia during the COVID-19 Pandemic

Happiness in Czechia during the COVID-19 Pandemic

How to Keep University Active during COVID-19 Pandemic: Experience from Slovakia

The Phenomenon of Social and Pastoral Service in Eastern Slovakia and Northwestern Czech Republic during the COVID-19 Pandemic: Comparison of Two Selected Units of Former Czechoslovakia in the Context of the Perspective of Positive Solutions

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