Social worker, licensed in sistemic family therapy, integrative child psychotherapy and supervision in psychosocial work; works as Full Professor at the University of Zagreb, Faculty of Law, Department of Social Work and is a chair of Social Theory and Methods Unit. She holds MA and PhD in Social Pedagogy. Special research interests: users' perspective in social work practice, theory and research; social work with people with disability; professional competences and ethics in social work; helping theories. Teaching activities: Social casework; Creative Methods in Social Work; Social work from the users' perspective; Methods of supervision; Integrative social work; Field placement for 2nd and 5th year students.
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Graduation year: 1992
mr.sc. graduation year: 1995
PhD graduation year: 1999
Employed since: 1996
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Public phone number: 4895 821 Internal phone number: 4895813 |
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Address:
Nazorova 51, soba 13/I |
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Department:
Theory and Methods of Social Work |
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Consultations: Wednesday 11,00 - 13,00 |
The role of civil society in large scale crisis events: response actions of the Society for Psychological Assistance in the areas impacted by earthquake
Theoretical frameworks for the application of empowerment in the mediation of parental conflicts
Role of ethics in creating supervision a safe place
Evaluation of practice teaching - perspective of graduate social work students
Parenting and disability - perspective of children, parents with disability and practitioners
Supervision trip to Ukraine and treasure chest that we brought
Role of Supervision in development of Parent and Child Support Program Growing Up Together - Count us in
Students’, caretakers’ and decision-makers’ perception of support in higher education for students with in-care experience
Educative supervision for mediators of parental disputes
Quality assurance of higher education institutions in the context of establishing a Croatian qualification framework
THE CHALLENGES OF HIGHER EDUCATION FOR YOUTH FROM ALTERNATIVE CARE IN CROATIA
Analyses of judges' perspective in family mediation – contribution to the development of new modality of work
Resources and challenges of family mediation in Croatia
THEORETICAL AND EXPERIENTIAL FRAMEWORKS FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF FIELD WORK MODELS FOR STUDENTS OF SOCIAL WORK
Experiences of teaching and implementing family mediationa-practical course at postgraduate studies of family mediation
SIGNIFICANCE OF INDIVIDUALN PLANING IN SOCIAL WORK
THEORETICAL AND VALUE FOUNDATION OF INDIVIDUALN PLANING IN SOCIAL WORK
INDIVIDUAL PLANING IN THE PROCESS OF USER'S RIGHTS ADVOCATION
Role of practice teaching in social work education
Students' field placement evaluation - students' perspective
mULTIPERSPECTIVE APPROACH IN CONTEMPORARY SOCIAL WORK ; TEHORY, PRACTICE AND ETICS OF INCLUSION
Civil society associations as a vital support for persons with disability in Croatia
Individual planing in social work
Students, care takers and decision makers perception of higher education for students with in-care experience
Civil society organisations as a vital support for persons with disability in Croatia
Multidimensional analysis of the social inclusion of children and students with disabilities in the educational process -qualitative research
The importance of students field/practical work in education of social workers: possibilities and perspective of partnership between Department of Social Work and the social care sistem
The Implementation of Public Policies as Operational Governance: An Analysis of Croatian Policy toward Persons with Disabilities
University as a place for promoting inclusion
Supervision of professionals, supervision of students, social work education, competences
Searching for own identity - experiences from a child psychodrama group
Reconceptualising the idea of participation of students with disability in higher education system
Students with disability in higher education – needs, responses and challenges
Participatory approach and empowerment as possible answer to needs of student with disability in higher education system
Cooperation amang students with disability, teachers and coordinators for students with disability: experiences and challenges
The importance of field placement in social work education: possibilities and perspectives for partnership between department of social work, University of zagreb and Social care system
Master study of social work - experiences of learning and teaching in two generations
Role of doctoral study in development of social work practice and competence: Croatian experience
Councelling in the Centre for children, youth and family
Care for professionals as a resource of higher quality of practice in Centre for children, youth and family
Supervision as a safetynet - the case study of Croatia
Qualitative analysis of professionals' experience as a contribution to the evaluation of introducing a nwe work model in social care centres
New model of social care centres : Challenges and recommendations
The role of theory and competences based approach in social care system reform and MA social work education in Croatia
participation of service users in social work education: theachers' perspective
Involvement of persons with disability in the education of social work students
Reflections about supervision: Intrenational perspective
Involvement of persons with disability in the education of social work students
Challenges of users' participation in social work education
Involving Users in Social Work Education
Involvement and the empowerment of users during the field placements of social work students
Integrative social work approach as a context for understanding the individual social care plan
Social work theory and its role in development of practice and competences
Involving users in social work education - mutual learning and teaching
Developing university as a place for promoting equality and inclusion
Supervision as a resource for higher quality in psychosocial work
The role of supervision in the education of professional helpers
challenges of including users in education and research of social work
Role and perception of supervision in undergraduate social work education from the perspective of students
The role of doctoral studies in the developement of Social Work as a profession - the croatian experience
Role of Doctoral Study in the development of Social Work as a Profession: Croatian Experience
Challenges of growing up for children with disabled parents
Inclusion and empowerment - implication for learning and eduction in social work
Meaning and featuring of the postmodern in social work
Parenthood and disability - needs and rights
Establishing collaborative relationship and personal contact in social work
Experience of own body and sexuality in adolescents with motoric impairments
Active learning and critical thinking in the context of supervisory, educational and helping relationship
What Service Users Have to Say about Practice Teaching in Social Work
Personal wounds – a burden or a resource for future professional helpers?
Competences in Social Work form the perspective of Department of Social Work
The role of Doctoral Study in Social Work Professional Development
Challenges of social work with individuals
Active learning, critical thinking and supervision in process of professional identification
Medical, social or neomedical approach to the care for the disabled
Supervision of students
A research on young Careers - Children whose Parents are Disabled or have Chronical Illness
Models of social work practice and profesional etics
Supervision of Students of Social Work - Comments and Perspective
Characteristics and perspectives of contemporary educational programmes for social workers
The importance of field-instruction for the development of social workers professional identity
Young care givers - children of disabled persons
Some Ethical Challenges of Social Work in Croatia
Psychosocial challenges of including disabled persons into community
Some aspects of field placement in the process of the education of social workers
Emotional violence in an adolescents family
Some aspects of empowering process in work with people with dissability.
Learning is more than just doing
Emotional violence in an adolescents family.
Adolescent's Assessment of Family relations concerning their experiences beeng refugee and displaced
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Quality of self- perception as protective factor in a process of growing up
Personal and professional responsibility of social workers in promoting life quality of physically disabled persons
Profesional Identification in the process of practice teaching in social work education in Croatia
Development of successful identity in therms of choice theory
Self-perception, relations with parents and futurelife perception of adolescence with expiriences of beeng refugee and displaced
The role of experiental learning in the process of changing attitudes toward disabled persons - joint programm of School of Social Work, University of Zagreb and Assosiations of Disabled persons in Zagreb
Perception of the future - from the perspective of adolescents with war experiences
The Role of a client with additional needs in practical education of social work students and in forming their professional identity
Some integrational characteristics of juvenile delinquent families
Emotional abuse in adolescent'sfamilies
European snap-shot survey of attitudes towards mental health
The role of interactive games in developing an interactive communication in a group of adolescents-refugees
Contact, challenge, cooperation - a common Program of the Association of Disabled Persons and Department of social work
The role of practice teaching in undergraduate social work study - Great Britain model
role of field placement in social work education - Model of Great Britain
Social Work Supervision Manual
K. Urbanc participated as a project leader (2008 – 2009) at international project “Service users as experience experts in social work education” financed by IASSW; as a research partner at project "The Multi-Dimensional Analysis of Social Inclusion of Children and Students with Disabilities in Educational Process (2013 - 2014)" financed by IPA; as a researcher in the project "Children, Youth, Families and Social Development in Croatia (2006-2013)" financed by Croatian Ministry of Science; as researcher in the project "Children from care-equalizing possibilities for their participation in higher education (2013 - 2014)" financed by the University of Zagreb..
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