Publication: CRISIS – WHAT TO DO WITH IT? STORIES THAT LIFE WRITES AND EXPERTS SOLVE

Introduction

Crisis is part of our lives wherever we live and work. None of us can avoid it. Yet it arouses fear, tension, and uncertainty in us. It enters all areas in which we move. There are crises in workplace relationships, in families, and in vocation. Every day we witness crises arising from broken relationships, divorce, abandonment, and loneliness. There are also crises caused by illness, condemnation, loss of meaning in life, and crisis of faith. We know that a crisis can come. Sometimes we think it will not affect us, that we can successfully avoid it. But it will come anyway. How powerful? How deeply will it affect our families, vocation, country? Will we be able to cope on our own, or will we need help from others? And how will it change our lives, functioning, or our entire future?

The monograph offers a wide range of crises that individual experts encounter in their professional practice. An interdisciplinary solution to the problem of crisis, in any field, is justified and important.

The aim of this scientific monograph is to address different areas of people’s lives and point to ways of dealing with crises. The authors of the individual chapters are professionals who in practice work with specific target groups. In each chapter they offer the reader a view of a person experiencing crisis in different contexts (in family and interpersonal relationships, in health, in ethnicity). Good practice in helping organisations will help us better orient ourselves in the specific issue.

We believe that despite the broad scope of crises, this monograph will provide readers with basic information about approaches and solutions to crisis situations. The monograph is addressed not only to professionals, but also to the wider public.

1 Lone mothers and unemployment (Soňa Vancáková) 1.1 Crisis 1.2 Loneliness and isolation 1.3 Unemployment 1.4 Examples of good practice 1.5 Stress and its consequences 1.6 Case studies

2 Help for people with mental disorders (Michaela Šuľová) 2.1 Social problems of people with mental disorders 2.2 Social services for people with mental disorders 2.3 Methods of helping people with mental disorders

3 Health disability – perspective and participation of healthcare professionals 3.1 Health and health disability (Valéria Horanská) 3.2 Health disability and search for meaning of life 3.3 Compensation for consequences of health disability 3.4 How it looks in practice – case studies 3.5 Integration and long-term care

4 Marital and family crises from the perspective of pastoral support (Pawel Landwójtowicz) 4.1 Causes of crisis situations in marital and family life 4.2 Pastoral recommendations (prevention)

5 Roma people in the context of crisis intervention (Ján Pčolinský) 5.1 Crisis – basic characteristics 5.2 Origin of the Roma – the path to understanding their present 5.3 Life of the Roma in Luník IX 5.4 Crisis situations in Roma communities 5.5 Proposals and improvements for work with Roma

6 Pastoral care of priests in crisis (Pawel Landwójtowicz) 6.1 Causes of priests’ crises 6.2 The theological basis for understanding crisis in relation to priesthood 6.3 Recommendations for pastoral accompaniment of priests in crisis

7 Female labor migration (Monika Nová) 7.1 Feminization of migration 7.2 Care drain 7.3 Research 7.4 Results 7.5 Discussion

8 Service of the Dismas community in Slovak prisons (Michal Libant) 8.1 Origin and circumstances of Dismas’s founding 8.2 Scope and activities of the Dismas community 8.3 Service for convicted persons from the community 8.4 Role in detention facilities 8.5 Fruit 8.6 Correspondence of prisoners – testimonies

For information about the book, contact the author via e-mail: sonavancakova@gmail.com

Title: CRISIS – WHAT TO DO WITH IT? STORIES THAT LIFE WRITES AND EXPERTS SOLVE Authors: Soňa Vancáková et al.: Valéria Horanská, Pawel Landwójtowicz, Michal Libant, Monika Nová, Ján Pčolinský, Michaela Šuľová

Year of publication: 2020 Publisher and print: Equilibria, Košice Number of pages: 218 Edition: first Editor: PaedDr. Mgr. Soňa Vancáková, PhD. Reviewers: Ks. prof. dr hab. Piotr Morciniec, PhDr. Ján Knapík, PhD. ISBN 978-80-8143-266-8