This is the very first textbook that deals with the cultural competencies of health workers in Slovenia. The textbook is a multidisciplinary endeavour of academic and professionals from different disciplines: public health, sociology, social work and social anthropology. The textbook introduces the key intercultural competencies of health workers including culture, gender, age and different understanding of the body, health and illnesses. It shows the cultural misunderstandings and their consequences as well as the knowledge needed for a competent help and support for people with different needs and cultures. This is one of the key conditions for a good quality of health provision in multicultural societies.
C.02 Editorial board of a national monograph
COBISS.SI-ID: 285274112The purpose of the paper was to make a consideration on migration through mental health of migrants »in transit« to desired end-state. By employing theoretical concepts such as moral economy of care and others, concrete cases of how government asylum seeker deterrence policy affects access to mental health services were analyzed. The existing research show greater morbidity among migrants, especially mental health problems. Before and during the journey and after arriving in the recipient country, migrants may experience wars, economic devastation of the home country, loss of relatives, long stays on borders or in refugee mass camps, violence, long-lasting asylum seeking processes, loss of valuable social roles, hostility of neighbourhoods in a new country. But they may also experience solidarity, capability to survive, friendship: their narratives are full of hope, humour and innovative ways to cope. Mental health care or social care services should consider and learn from their comprehensive experiences. In reality, refugees are characterized mainly as traumatized people and helpless victims with their lives full of pain and dispair. However, as they are »victims« we deny them resilience, power, aspirations, skills and hope. We deny them the sense of ownership and entitlement as to what helps them. There can be a pressure for refugees to emphasize suffering in their encounters with service providers in order to be considered legitimate. The provision of services to refugees and asylum seekers is governed by what may be referred to as a moral economy of care that distinguishes ‘worthy’ and ‘unworthy,’ ‘good’ and ‘bad’ , legitimate refugees who are deserving of protection and care, and illegitimate refugees (economic migrants) who are not deserving of it.
B.03 Paper at an international scientific conference
COBISS.SI-ID: 4562277In the field of care in recent years, the long – term care emerges as a response to changes we are witnessing in modern society, especially the changing demographic relationships, patterns, forms and relations of care, different culture of informal care and development of medical science. In the context of long-term care, people with dementia represent a unique challenge. Living with dementia, presents real life test for everyone involved in interpersonal relationships with people with dementia: for person with dementia, relatives, friends, acquaintances, as well as professionals. Care for people with dementia requires the coordinated delivery of health and social services, the field of mutual cooperation, dialogue and coordination between various disciplines, which is the central objective of long-term care. At the Faculty of Social Work, University of Ljubljana, we based the research about specificity of long-term care for people with dementia on the defining the needs of people with dementia to develop care and services adapted to the needs, desires and personal goals of people with dementia. With the focus on four levels of life of people with dementia (first, the practical level, second, the level of interpersonal relations, third, the economic level, fourth, the ethical level, we try to accurately surveyed experiences of living with dementia outside of institutional frameworks of care in order to get insight into the needs of people with dementia and adequacy of existing forms of care as a responses to their existing needs. We find out that the dominant model of institutional long-term care is not an appropriate respond to the needs of people with dementia. On the other hand, the opportunities for independent living in the community for people with dementia are very limited due to a lack of accommodation forms of living, forms of spending time and employment, services and other organizational forms, which would complement the help of family and relatives who actually carried out the greater part of care for people with dementia.
B.04 Guest lecture
COBISS.SI-ID: 4650085Film Under the bridges illustrates the problem of poverty in Slovenia and gives a diagnosis of the concept of the welfare state in our country, which allows poverty as something unproblematic. One of the main highlights of the film is that poverty in Slovenia is not the result of economic problems or recession- conjuncture cycles in the economy, but it is the result of political decisions (neoliberalism).
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COBISS.SI-ID: 4716133Zorn, Jelka. Refugee protest: Plenary lecture at the Social Work Conference, 13. 10. 2016, Moravske toplice. The right to mobility - considered as one of the human rights – is discussed in the case of refugees and migrants. The departure point of the lecture is an analyses of the refugee humanitarian corridor (2015/16) by concepts such as control, securitization, humanitarianism and autonomy of migration. Hyper visibility of the migration, one of the corridor’s consequence is also critically discussed. The significance of the refugee / migrant protest (ie. protest for the freedom of movement) for social work underpins social work users’ perspective and articulation of the problems in political terms: it deconstructs the illegality production policies and reveals the border control as murderous regime thereby leaving the identity of subjects (migrants, refugees) undefined.
B.04 Guest lecture
COBISS.SI-ID: 4640869