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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.
Parents’ economic migration and the psychological well-being of their Polish children
Pufal-Struzik, Irena; Sordyl-Lipnicka, Barbara; Duda, Małgorzata (Redakcja Wydawnictw Wydziału Teologicznego Uniwersytetu Opolskiego, 2021)
Aim: The aim of the study was to analyze mental well-being, especially anxiety and a sense of loneliness of Polish children temporarily separated from their parent or parents who are migrating for economic reasons, and children who went abroad with their parents. Methods: Explicit Anxiety Scale was used to measure anxiety “Jaki Jesteś?’’ (“What are you like?” by Skrzypek and Choynowski) (textbook by Zwierzyńska, Matuszewski, 2007) and the Polish versions of the UCLA Loneliness Scale were used to measure loneliness (by Russell, Peplau, & Cutrona, adapted by Rembowski, 1992). Test results were supplemented with an interview with children. 320 children from different types of migrant families participated in the study. Results: the highest level of anxiety is felt by children temporarily separated from their mother, and children who, together with their parents, went abroad and find it difficult to adapt to the new environment. The duration of emigration was an important factor. Most children in the sample – regardless of the type of migratory family – feel lonely, do not feel strong ties with close relatives, do not feel understood by them, do not feel associated with a peer group. Conclusion: The results of the research indicate the necessity to take actions in the area of institutional and legal as well as psychological support for families and children both in the situation of going abroad and returning from migration. The most important directions of activities concerning the creation of environmental forms of separation compensation and the environmental assistance system for the migration family are indicated at the stage of prevention related to people planning trips.