Socialt arbete och frivilligt arbete : en studie inom sjukvården i Warszawa

Sammanfattning: The purpose with this studie is to illuminate the areas of social work and volonteer work within healthcare in Warsaw, Poland. I also want to problematize around the possibilities and obstacles for social work and to find out if volonteer work has any impact on the socialworkers situation. The central questions for my studie is: 1 Is there any social work done within healthcare in Warsaw, in that case by whom and what are the assignements? 2 What possibilities and obstacles are there for social work within healthcare in Warsaw? 3 Is there any volonteer work done within healthcare in Warsaw, in that case by whom and what are the assignements? 4 Have the volonteerwork any impact on the socialworkers situation? I have an explorative effort and use a qualitative method with half-structured interviews and participating observations. The findings are that there is social work done by socialworkers and others, their assignements have a big variation and include both traditionall social work and some deviating tasks. The respondents see mainly Non Governmental Organisations and a long tradition of social work as possibilities and as obstacles bad finances and the lack of knowledge and understanding for social work. There are volonteerwork done by expatriots but also by polish people. They entertain and keep children busy in diffrent ways and help sick people with households. They have no big impact on socialworkers situation but in some case they reprecent a resorce that can simplify the social work.