Kontakt 2011, 13(2):211-215 | DOI: 10.32725/kont.2011.026

Social work with small children of mothers addicted to alcoholHealth and Social Sciences - Original article

Marek ©rank1,*, Mária Boledovičová2
1 FN Nitra
2 Univerzita Konątantína Filozofa, Fakulta sociálnych vied a zdravotníctva, katedra oąetrovateµstva, Nitra

The contribution deals with a view of social welfare professionals in medical institutions on their professional activities focused on small hospitalized children of mothers addicted to alcohol. The dependence on alcohol currently brings a severe social problem encountered in our everyday life. Not only the addicted person but also an individual, a small child in the case considered here, who is most involved by the given social-pathological phenomenon, becomes an object of the social work. The welfare professional as a member of a multidisciplinary team in the medical institution enters interactions not only with healthcare professionals but also with patients with the aim to provide the professional and humanitarian quality of the given institution and application of methods of the social work to hospitalized patients. In the contribution presented here, a case report method is employed to present problems of work with hospitalized children of mothers addicted to alcohol. Our considerations are based on practical experience of social welfare professionals in medical institutions, who analyze and establish the plan of the social help under conditions of active attitude of the child mother and other family members to the cooperation with different institutions. The social work is an integrated discipline capable of multidisciplinary cooperation with other scientific disciplines, and deals with problems of social pathology not only at a theoretical level. It also enters the practice as an activity willing to help in the solution of individual problems of the whole society, including social-pathological phenomena, such as the addiction of the mother to alcohol and its consequences to the child himself/herself, who comes to the medical institution and needs a help of specialists. The contribution conclusively indicates possibilities of social welfare professionals in the analysis and solution of these serious problems, encountered for the period of their professional practice.

Keywords: alcohol; woman addicted to alcohol; child; welfare professional

Received: February 3, 2011; Accepted: April 12, 2011; Published: June 20, 2011  Show citation

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©rank M, Boledovičová M. Social work with small children of mothers addicted to alcohol. Kontakt. 2011;13(2):211-215. doi: 10.32725/kont.2011.026.
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