Projects & Grants
| The role of social workers in a multidisciplinary team focused on supporting people with eating disorders | |
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| Project Id | |
| Main solver | Mgr. Vladimíra Osadníková |
| Period | 1/2023 - 12/2023 |
| Provider | Specifický VŠ výzkum |
| State | finished |
| Anotation | Eating disorders are a frequent and serious biopsychosocial disease, its treatment should involve several experts from different professions (Krch 2005; Sladka-Ševčíková, 2003; Papežová a kol., 2010). Due to the etiology of eating disorders, which is multifactorial and affects all aspects of an individual's life, it also requires a multidisciplinary treatment approach (Martin & Ammerman, 2002). Even though each client's recovery process is individual, it appears that the best practice in the treatment of eating disorders is based on the interventions of a multidisciplinary treatment team (Weiner, 2015). However, in the Czech Republic context, the role of individual professions within a multi-professional team is an under-researched phenomenon. Considering the mentioned fact, we focused on how clients with an eating disorder interpret their experience of working with a social worker in a multidisciplinary team. We are interested in the personal experiences of these clients and the effects of cooperation with social workers on their recovery process within a multidisciplinary team. At the theoretical level, we start from a client-oriented approach, which is used in social work within a multidisciplinary team together with the recovery paradigm, the basic principle of which is the rejection of the chronicity of the disease and the emphasis on the fact that recovery is possible (Carpenter, 2002). A qualitative research strategy was chosen to achieve the research objective. We will implement semi-structured interviews with clients with eating disorders using a multidisciplinary team. As a method, we choose a multiple case study. We choose a case study for its usability in the field of in-depth investigation of one or more aspects of a given phenomenon in its real context from the perspective of the respondents. (Hendl a Remr, 2017). |
