PROCESS MODEL OF QUALIFYING SOCIAL WORKERS TAKING CARE FOR ADULT MEN WITH INTELLECTUAL DISABILITIES IN BULGARIA – A TEAM TRAINING A TEAM.

Authors:
Plamen Radev, Ognyan Koychev, Zlatomira Kostova, Albena Aleksandrova, Galin Tsokov – University of Plovdiv, Bulgaria

The concept of the process model is defined as a specific substantiated pattern of selected topics in qualifying particular target group of social workers supporting the well-being of adult intellectually disabled men. The target group consists of nonqualified personnel without basic level education in social care working in an Institution and an Individual Secured House in a small town of Batak. In its completed form the process model is aimed to answer the questions: why, what, where, when, who and haw is going to be qualified. The model is presented as a complex (integrity) of interrelated components – the underlying principles, the goals, the training procedure, the qualification technology, the contents and the subjects of the qualifying process together with the evaluation of the results.