Course Year: 2nd Master in Innovation in Forschung und Praxis der Sozialen Arbeit
Lecturer: Prof. Dr. Walter Lorenz
The methodological expertise of social workers, while being based on scientific evidence, is only acceptable when it respects the dignity of the person to whom it refers. The engagement with that person is therefore both an ethical and a practical issue in the identification of appropriate methods, and a focus on the nature of this participative process is essential in social work methodology. At the same time this also requires special attention to evaluation and the criteria for evaluation of one’s interventions which need to be built around the same principles of a critical, interactive engagement with the users of social services.
- Instructor: Walter August Lorenz