This book, "Psycho-Spiritual/Soulful Qualities of the Professional in Humanistic Social Work," is part of the HUMANISTIC SOCIAL WORK Project, which promote Humanistic Social Work as THE THIRD WAY in theory and practice. At a first glance, social work, as theory, is dominated by two, relatively opposed, major ways, forces, orientations, paradigms, namely Traditional/Conventional Social Work and Critical/Radical Social Work. But, major social, political and economic events have strongly shaken the ontological and ideological foundation of Traditional Social Work (economic crisis), and of...

This new paper book of the author, in the series of works dedicated to the practitioner in humanistic social work, starts from the thesis that humanistic social work theory/axiology considers the psychological-humane resources of the professional, expressed in humane and spiritual qualities, one of the most important factors for the psychological rehabilitation and social reintegration of the persons in difficulty, of the clients. Humanistic social work, as the third way in contemporary social work, argues, therefore, the necessity of a new optic regarding the professional, its roles,...

This book is the version entirely in English of the bilingual book with the same title, published in November 2014, comprising, therefore, only its component in English language. The text represents a new stage in the author's project to contribute to the development of the humanistic social work theory and methodology, with special attention paid to the professional/ practitioner (social worker, caregiver, psychologist, etc.), to his psychological-spiritual and humane qualities and conducts in practice. * In the PART I is presented THE HUMANISTIC SOCIAL WORK PROJECT - the author's...

Some of the most significant fragments/ ideas of the book: "What we call, in the paper, the formation, the structure/ composition and the functioning of the person/ personality entail at least two perspectives. One it is the systemic-atomistic perspective, where the person is represented as a bio-psycho-social system, a unitary assembly of relatively autonomous formations. The other it is the spherical perspective, where the person is represented as a (multi-)spherical bio-psycho-social construction - here we refer mainly to two major (sub-)spheres of the personal (macro-)sphere, of the...

In the process of realization of this book was taken into consideration and was consulted the "social" and "therapeutic" literature of humanistic orientation, with the two main directions - existential/positive and spiritual/ontological/humanitarian, or the one that describes it or refers to it. Essentially, the Humanistic-Existential (Positive) Orientation/ Theory represents the person and personality through traits like high level of personal and social autonomy, free will and high capacity/ ability to self-determination, high level of personal development, high resilience, high capacity to...

Dans ce livre l'auteur tente, et reussit dans une large mesure, d'esquisser et de proposer une theorie unitaire et pertinente du TRAVAIL SOCIAL HUMANISTE. Il est souligne essentiellement l'aspect que la theorie specifique du Travail Social Humaniste vise a assembler et organiser l'epistemologie et la methodologie HUMANISTE du travail social contemporain dans un systeme theoretique-doctrinal unitaire, fournissant a la fois un cadre methodologique et praxeologique coherent et aussi un forum pour debat et innovation professionnelle ou scientifique. L'accent est mis egalement sur l'importance et...

Nu se poate concepe nici teoria sau axiologia, nici metodologia sau practica ASISTENTEI SOCIALE, cu toate aspectele, acceptiunile sau orientarile ei, traditionala, critica, umanista etc., fara a se raporta sau a se face apel la terminologia sau TEORIA FILOSOFICA. Este, astfel, necesara dar si foarte utila, binevenita definirea, incadrarea, fundamentarea si din perspectiva filosofica a fenomenului ori conceptului general de asistenta sociala, precum si a unor aspecte, teme subsumate sau adiacente precum "ratiunea" si misiunea acesteia, specificul teoriei, origini, surse, modele, categoriile,...