Educational program of intensive mobile social pedagogical treatment

This master thesis examines intensive individual approaches included in educational programmes at residential treatment institutions in Slovenia and abroad. Lately such approaches demonstrate themselves as an answer to children’s and young people’s needs in modern society. Due to the diversity of needs, shown by children and young people suffering from emotional-behavioral disorder, the residential treatment institutions are compelled to - within their capacity - include specific forms of work and help into their educational programmes. In the theoretical introduction this master thesis concentrates on children’s and young people’s needs in modern society. Alongside diversity of children the thesis also examines significance of person’s individuality with emphasis on the process of inclusion. In the following chapters the thesis addresses the needs of children and young people suffering from emotional-behavioral disorder as well as their placement into residential treatment institutions by Social Work Centre. In this regard the thesis highlights the educational programme and the principle of individuality within. The main focus of master thesis is the individual approach, which demands to take into consideration the meaning of the expert - user relationship as well as their attachment to each other during the help or support process. The theoretical conclusion exposes specific forms of help and support, which residential treatment institutions in Slovenia and abroad include in their educational programmes for children and young people with emotional-behavioral disorder. Considering the use of the term “mobility”, there is also a chapter devoted to the definition and use of respective term in social-pedagogy profession. The empirical section of the thesis uses the qualitative research approach through conducting interviews. There were four social workers from different residential treatment institutions in Slovenia included in the research, who use various forms of intensive individual approaches in their educational programmes. Furthermore a conversation with practitioner from Social Work Centre, who administers the placement procedures of children and young people to the residential treatment institutions, was concluded. The findings demonstrate the advantages that inclusion of such intensive individual approaches in residential treatment institutions bring and additionally point to a need for systemic change and introduction of new and more flexible work forms in the field. Based on theoretical discovery and empirical data, the conclusion of the master thesis provides a proposition of new educational programme of intensive mobile social-pedagogical treatment, which indicates a new work form in the field of residential treatment institutions