The Pandemic and Challenges to Social Work Practice in Slovenia and Worldwide

Abstract

The Covid-19 pandemic has induced radical changes in the lives of people across the globe. To better understand the scope and characteristics of the pandemic’s impact on the ethics of social work practice, an international group of researchers, in collaboration with the International Federation of Social Workers, conducted an online survey in May 2020. Social workers from 55 countries responded, contributing 607 responses in seven languages. The present article presents the results of the Slovenian part of the research, in the context of broader, global findings of the research. The analysis of the responses to the survey provided six central themes that emerged worldwide and in Slovenia (n = 14), in varied contexts of socio-work practices, social policies, socio-economic and epidemiological conditions.

Keywords

• social work
• ethical challenges
• ethics
• covid-19
• online survey