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Change Readiness and Positive Orientation in Professional Helpers in the Polish Welfare System during the COVID-19 Pandemic
Czechowska-Bieluga, Marta; Zielińska, Patrycja; Krawczyk, Renata; Sordyl-Lipnicka, Barbara (The Pontifical University of John Paul II in Cracow, 2023)
The COVID-19 pandemic is undoubtedly a crisis situation, which means that the lives of persons experiencing it will never be the same as before. Professional helpers are faced with numerous challenges related to the change in their work flow, the need to modify strategies, work methods and tools, or to the switch from on-site to remote work. In this context, professional helpers’ resources are of considerable importance, as they constitute an important part of the welfare system. The analysis of the results of previous studies suggests that social workers’ change readiness and positive orientation not only may increase their professional effectiveness, but may even foster better quality of life. The present study investigated positive orientation and change readiness, as important predictors of professional functioning of persons in the sample group. The questionnaires were distributed among 189 professional helpers working in the Polish welfare system. The response rate was 98% (the final sample consisted of 185 persons) The results show that most subjects are characterized by the below-optimal levels of all the analyzed traits of the change readiness, but high and medium levels of positive orientation. The groups differed from one another in terms of adaptability (difference close to statistically significant). Change readiness and positive orientation may constitute important resources for professional helpers. Long service, being married, and a low level of change-readiness revealed in the presented study, may indicate that change-readiness is a general tendency in specific individuals, and is not dependent on the nature of changes themselves. The results may prompt a search for relations between personality factors and changereadiness.
Family assistantships as a professional dimension of support for modern families
Sordyl-Lipnicka, Barbara; Czechowska-Bieluga, Marta (Redakcja Wydawnictw Wydziału Teologicznego Uniwersytetu Opolskiego, 2023)
The aim of the study was to find out in what manner the family assistants subjected to the study accompany the families they support. The manner was used as a framework for the analyses of professional functioning and experiences of the group of professionals subjected to the study. It appears that the family assistants’ accounts show the essence of their professional role. The case study method was used. In the presented analyses, assistantships appear to be work aimed at introducing changes in the lives of families whose members are treated as partners or clients, and much less frequently perceived as friends. In the development of professional competences of the respondents there is a certain randomness than the planned educational activity and insufficiently widespread systematic supervision is visible. The negative context of the research results refers to attributing the causes of failures to inappropriate attitudes of family members, limited reflection on one’s own actions and the lack of a sense of being part of a team of specialists working with the family.