PROCESS MODEL OF QUALIFYING SOCIAL WORKERS TAKING CARE FOR ADULT MEN WITH INTELLECTUAL DISABILITIES IN BULGARIA – A TEAM TRAINING A TEAM.
Plamen Radev, Ognyan Koychev, Zlatomira Kostova, Albena Aleksandrova, Galin Tsokov – University of Plovdiv, Bulgaria
Introduction
The poster presents the core of a joint Flemish-Bulgarian Project to improve the quality of life and the wellbeing of 84 adult men with severe intellectual disabilities living in a residential care in a small town in Bulgaria. The mission is to make better social care by supplying qualification training to the nonqualified social workers. The project is inspired and sponsored by the Medical Pedagogical Centre “St. Franciscus” and the Foundation “Help the Children”, Belgium and is executed by The Department of Pedagogy and Psychology, University of Plovdiv, Bulgaria.
The Qualification Training is developed as a process model and its contents are based on the Concept Quality of Life of People with Intellectual Disabilities.
The Qualification Training is aimed to:
to present and to organize a system of knowledge, necessary to provide for a better quality of life of intellectually disabled people;
to improve the existing practical skills and to develop new professional skills of the nonqualified personnel;
to stimulate the professional efforts, to reward the commitment to the social care and to raise the interest to the wellbeing of the intellectually disabled men, living in the residential care.
Methodology
The concept of the process model is defined as a specific substantiated pattern of selected topics in qualifying particular target group of social workers, without basic professional education, supporting the well-being of adult intellectually disabled men. In its completed form the model is giving an answer to the following questions: why, what, where, when, who, how.
Why is the model necessary? Because of the need for adequate practices to improve and to develop the life quality and the well-being of the adult intellectually disabled men living in residential care. This is considered as a consequence of the improvement of the social work activities, of the raising of the effectiveness and of the creating of a humane professional culture.
The process model is scientifically demarcated by specific criteria for the theoretical and the practical knowledge. These are:
• the model is not an universal one;
• the narrative is reduced to a minimum;
• the attitude is critical to the reality of the residential care;
• the model is opened to constructive changes;
• the concept is presented to an authoritative scientific forum;
The process model is pragmatically demarcated by the self-assessment of the needs and the problems of the residential care personnel.
What is the model like? It is a complex (an entity) of interrelated components – basic principles, aims of the qualification, process of the qualification, means of the training, contents of the training, participants (subjects) of the qualification and assessment procedures.
Where is the model realised? The qualification training is carried out with the nonqualified personnel of social workers in the Residential Centre with Secured Houses for Adult Men with Severe Intellectual Disabilities and The Individual Secured House in Batak – small town in the region of Pazardjik, Bulgaria. The Centre is financed by the Ministry of Labour and Social Policy and the Individual house is funded by the MPC “Sint Franciscus”, Belgium and the Municipality of Batak.
When is the model realised? The training process takes a total of 18 months for all the subjects who are divided into three groups or each group is qualified for 6 months.
Who is accomplishing the model? The process model for the qualification training is developed and fulfilled by a team of five faculty members working in the Department of Pedagogy and Psychology at the Faculty of Pedagogy, The University of Plovdiv, Bulgaria.
How is the model realised? The realisation is based on a developed curriculum or a system of modules, containing specific topics and training methods.
DESCRIPTION OF THE BASIC COMPONENTS AND CONCEPTS OF THE PROCESS MODEL FOR QUALIFICATION.
The Qualification in this case is seen as a perpetuating a purposeful process for changing, enriching and broadening the cognitive schemata and the professional conduct of the team of the social workers in the residential care for the adult men with severe intellectual disabilities.
The Principles of the model are here understood as harmonized reasons and recognitions:
1. for a particular specializing and integrated practice;
2. for a sequence of events that are caused by the process model.
The current process model is built on the following principles:
contextuality, meaning an interrelation between the knowledge given and the ways of mastering them in the concrete situation of Batak;
multilateral influence, having in mind the variety of the stimulation presented;
imparting significance of the necessary knowledge;
interactive training;
movement from declarative to procedural knowledge;
synergetic action, meaning collaborative and focused activities of the training team;
threaded and shared integration, considered as a well-founded movement from one module to another and creating a vision of an entity of the curriculum:
Goals
module1 module2 module3 module4 module5 module6 module7
Results.
mod. 8 mod. 9 mod. 10 mod. 11 mod. 12 mod. 13 mod. 14.
The goals of the process model for qualification are defined as: (1) a humanistic integrative element of the social workers’ practice; (2) a starting point and a determinant of the personnel’s individual and group professional conduct. The goals of the qualification process model are divided to general, specific and concrete. The general goals have the status of setting the specific and the concrete ones. The specific goals are given on the top of each module. The concrete goals are the tasks of each session of the module. The training team defines the three types of goals in a clear and a simple way according to nature of the professional environment of the social workers.
The General goals of the process model are defined in the following taxonomy of the professional experience:
1. Cognition about the specific terminology, facts, conceptions, values, methods and procedures in the social care for intellectually disabled clients.
2. Understanding and identifying information and activities in accordance with the everyday work in the residential care.
3. Developing expedient skills to apply the new information, acquired in the training process.
4. Developing skills for making decisions in atypical situationa.
5. Creating a humane culture of communication and professional attitude to the intellectually disabled clients.
The Contents of the Qualification Training is organized in 14 modules. Each module is conceived as a specifically programmed and structured panel of integrated informative and operational contents, consisting of an unity of particular quantity and quality of knowledge, skills and competence necessary for an effective social care and support of the intellectually disabled men.
The thematic allocation of the training modules (the curriculum) is the following:
1. Issues of the social policy and legislation for disadvantaged and disabled people in Bulgaria.
2. Specific terminology in the social work with intellectually disabled people.
3. Individual profiles, evaluation of the clients (assessing the individual strengths and weaknesses) and personal action planning.
4. Individual approach to the intellectually disabled clients.
5. Planning and organizing the free time and the leisure of the intellectually disabled clients.
6. Specific methods for individual and group work to develop intellectually disabled clients’ social skills.
7. Methods and techniques for motivating the intellectually disabled clients.
8. Social integration and creating, stimulating social contact skills of the intellectually disabled clients.
9. Techniques of communication with the clients with a disability.
10. Methods and techniques to cope with and to control clients’ aggression.
11. Team work in the social care for disabled people. Team building and mastering the team working capacity of the personnel.
12. Building “client – team – social worker” system.
13. Talking with the intellectually disabled clients about sexuality, sexual hygiene and sexual problems.
14. Individual cases problem solving.
The Process Model of the Qualification Training Technology is defined hereby as a successive movement of particular interrelated events in the following contingency:
external motivating and presenting the concrete goals of the didactic form (session) thematic focussing introducing to a learning situation of presenting declarative and procedural discussing and interpreting the new information creating a problem solving situation applying the acquired skills and interactive evaluation and supervision appraisal and conclusions .
The technology is not rigid and the process is opened and dynamic.
The Methods used in the model are a form of interaction between the trainer and the trained social workers aiming to provoke the development of the qualification process. The methods here could be classified in several groups based on their purpose (intention):
- direct – presenting lectures, reviews and surveys, counselling;
- interactive – discussions, group training, problem-based training, brainstorming, supervision;
- imitative – simulations, role playing and sensitivity training;
- pragmatic – applied project activities, practical problem solving, case study.
The didactic forms applied to organize and to frame the qualification process are the short lecture, the seminar, the workshop, the dynamic training.
The evaluation in the process model for the qualification of the social workers is of the summarizing (final) type and the instrument used is a presentation of a practical case study. In the evaluation procedure the trainer is supervising the case and is facilitating an intervision of the group. In this way the evaluation result is consequence of the entire group process. The trainees are giving a feedback by a final assessment of the qualification training.
вторник, 25 август 2009 г.
петък, 10 юли 2009 г.
Celebrating the successful finish of the qualification training
The professor is strict, but fair and compassionate.
Celebrating the successful finish of the qualification trainingT
Together in the classroom and in the dancing floor.Celebrating the successful finish of the qualification training
Small souveniers but intensive feelings...
Final examination of the tarinees in Batak
The Chairman of tthe examination commettee is announcing the results
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