"It's easier to jump right in" Research for Home –Visiting Work

Home-Visiting Work represents an expanding, extremely promising and commonly practiced approach that can be seen in the areas of social work (e.g. social pedagogical family assistance) as well as health care (e.g. family... [ view full abstract ]

Home-Visiting Work represents an expanding, extremely promising and commonly practiced approach that can be seen in the areas of social work (e.g. social pedagogical family assistance) as well as health care (e.g. family midwives and doctors) (Howard, K. a. J. Brooks-Gunn, 2009).
The research study „’Home Treatment’ – transdisciplinary research in home visiting work” which was conducted in January 2011 till December 2013 by the University of Applied Sciences Neubrandenburg, funded by the federal state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania is the first German study which used qualitative and quantitative methods to collect data from different professions in the whole state. The Aim of the research project was to collect data from all kinds of Homevisitors (General Practitioners, Midwifes, Social Workers, Therapists etc.). Subsequently, the results were compared internationally – predominantly to standard work practices in the USA, and then analyzed.
The goal of the research project was to develop an interdisciplinary concept (social work, early education, psychology, medicine), which specifies the special opportunities and challenges of assistance in a domestic setting. From this, quality standards should be generated, and with them the situation for clients / patients and professional caregivers should be improved. Moreover, theme-related offers for further training should be developed for the “Home Treatment” sector.
At the workshop the results of the investigation will be presented and discussed.