Interaction of the Social Worker with the Institute of Family

Abstract

The author of the article focuses attention on the important functions of social
 work: development of social communication, prevention of interpersonal
 tensions, conflicts and strengthening of family ties In recent decades, the
 dramatic changes in socio-political and economic conditions of life of Russia’s
 society, the a turn to market relations have produced a negative impact
 on the development of the modern family. Along with the deepening of the
 spiritual world of the modern individual, one can observe degradation of the
 demographic situation, new challenges in educational process and a higher
 than ever before percentage of children with deviant behavior. That entails
 the necessity to prepare specialists with a well-developed communicative
 competence which lets them interact with risk-group families. The article
 provides a definition of the essence and contents of underprivileged family
 and risk-group family in modern conditions of society: a category of families
 which, owing to certain circumstances, is subject to negative external
 influence from society and its criminal elements. The author underlines the
 important role of the social worker in rendering assistance to such family.

Soil modification in a chronosequence of postagricultural ecosystems of the intrazonal lithogenic matrix (Arkhangelsk region, Russia)

“…However, it is predicted that fallow soils develop toward their natural state. In lithological matrices of zonal soils, postagricultural successions develop into ecosystems of zonal types [33]. This relationship is broken in intrazonal soils, especially as the formation of the future vegetation community depends on the first years of successional development.…”