STUDIES OF SOCIAL WORK IN CROATIA: FORMER AND ACTUAL PROBLEMS

Autor na početku definira socijalni rad. Potom govori o začecima obrazovanja socijalnih radnika u svijetu. Upozorava na proces tzv. akademizacije studija te promjene u koncepciji socijalnog rada. To pred socijalne radnike postavlja nove, složenije zadatke. U drugom dijelu članka govori o obrazovanju socijalnih radnika u Hrvatskoj. Pri tome izdvaja tri etape: viša škola, interfakultetski studij te studij unutar Pravnog fakulteta. Na kraju članka autor govori o aktualnim problemima i daljnjem razvitku studija socijalnog rada. U prvom redu upozorava na kadrovski problem, uz koji veže problem znanstvenog područja, postdiplomskog i doktorskog studija. S obzirom na složene zadatke koji danas stoje pred socijalnim radnicima, autor ocjenjuje da je za to presudna kvalitetna postdiplomska nastava.The author begins by defining social work. Then he discusses the beginnings of social workers’ education throughout the world. The attention is drawn to the process of so called academization of the studies and changes in conception of social work. It puts social workers in front of new, more complex tasks. In the second part of the article the education of social workers in Croatia is discussed. Three stages are separated: the high school, the interfaculty study and the study within the Faculty of Law. In the final part of the article the actual problems and the future development of the social work studies are discussed. The author emphasizes the problem of staff, to which is related the problem of scientific field, postgraduate and doctoral studies. With regard to complex tasks which social workers currently face, the author estimates a high quality postgraduate education to be of decisive significance