Quality of life (QOL) the essence of social work supervision

Abstract

New challenges and priorities of social work modernization processes in the context of European integration and enlargement of the European Union are analysed in this theoretical article. Main attention is paid to the problematics of a person in a changing society. The priorities of citizens‘ activity in a society should be based on knowledge on the being of a personality, its entirety, because only by knowing the object of affection of our activity, we can allow it to create a vision of a better life and embody it in the real life.
The article highlights the person‘s search for meanings in a changed world. The essence of a person‘s structure, importance of culture, morale, ethics and value thinking for creating life quality is revealed on a philosophical and theoretical level.
The scientific problem presented in the article defines the following questions:
- What attitude to personality of full value is important for a social worker when creating life quality?
- Can a person‘s life quality be an essential motive of the supervision created?
The object of the research were the attitudes of philosophers, psychologists and the author, their thoughs on the personality, its place in a changing world and creation of life quality as a motivation of social worker‘s supervision.