INSIGHTS OF CASE MANAGEMENT APPROACH: AS A DISCIPLINE OF STUDY AND AS A METHOD OF WORK IN CHILD PROTECTION

Abstract

Case management can be approached from a double perspective:
as mandatory work method in child care services and also as study
matter for students enrolled in Social Work. Proper knowledge and
use of case management as coordination and integration method in
social services regarded as means of improving the beneficiaries`
situation and development of abilities in case investigation are the
competences aimed by Case Management study matter. Training
and development of such competences are absolutely necessary to
future social workers; however, the complexity of case management
procedures makes it difficult to develop such competences with
students. Thus, professors are challenged to point out very briefly
numerous actions, interventions, procedures conducted
simultaneously by specialists of various institutions.This study tries to
draft a model of organizing course contents and seminar activities
for the subject matter Case Management, so that it would enhance
the understanding of case management as procedure/work method in
child care. I would like to focus on the use of modern, interactive
teaching methods but also on team work along with specialists
involved in case management services. The paper points out the most
important elements of case management used as study matter as well
as the difficulties that emerge while teaching it. We have to refer to
this method considering the complexity of the process of integrated
services for children in difficulty.