The peculiarities of the social worker activity in providing help to children from families in poverty
Review
Poverty in Lithuania is increasing and touches children most of all. To talk about poverty is important, because it has long-lasting and irreversible consequences for children. Meanwhile the child personality is developing he lives in privation and can not satisfy his basic needs. Accordingly it requires a necessity of special support and help for children from families in poverty in order to satisfy children needs and realize their rights. Social work is a professional activity organizing and lending social services, which purpose is to help a person to find resort in dealing with social problems and seeking for more harmonious life. The aim of this work – reveal peculiarities of the social worker activity in providing help for children form families in poverty. The aim of research – explore social worker’s process of help peculiarities, providing help for children from families in poverty. Research results revealed that child health, psychology, behaviour, family problems and difficulties at school are coherent with each other. Neglect, dereliction, unemployment, starvation, unsanitary environment, addictions, family disruptions and society attitude to poverty determine these problems. Most of all participants of research apply individual and group work methods. Community organization method they apply rarely just for cultural purposes. They maintain that to reach changes in child’s life it is important to work with child and his environment – family.
