Going out of the professional-sector boundaries
In the next part of the workshop, we have also clarified that the professional direction of our project is to help integrate mosaics that are relevant in psychology, sociology, pedagogy, special education, medicine and healthy lifestyle and other fields of science of social work and to transpose this into one concept.
Family support and child protection are basically an integral profession, understanding reality as social orders, and developing an adequate response to dealing with it. For example, Hungarian child welfare services would have a good chance that, for a higher-performing service, they themselves fill the role of the service coordinator (case manager).
Participants found that service integration can be a starting point, in other words, to improve complex situations they need to move beyond professional-sector boundaries. On the other hand, there is a need for an evidence-based knowledge and practice. Social workers must basically change their attitudes, roles, and the way they work.
At the same time, social workers feel and know that they are not properly prepared for joint activities with the representatives of different professions, currently they have no means and methods.