MA in Social Work

Introducing the Program

The Master's Program in Social Work prepares social workers and social educators with a BA for social work at a higher level of professionalism.

The program's goals include both a consolidation and a more differentiated, broader and multidisciplinary augmentation of the theoretical contents of the BA as well as preparation for research-based academic work. Students' competence is thus further developed in the areas of the practice of social work, leadership and research. The specificity of the program is a complex approach to social questions concerning the family and a system-oriented integratation of previously acquired knowledge and expereince. We emphasise a value-based approach and its recognition as a resource.

Those graduating from our Master's program are equipped to perform the following tasks:

• independent work in the social sphere;
• identifying and managing organisational and administrative tasks to establish or improve institutional work;
• continuous monitoring and evaluation of social services;
• planning, implementing and managing intervention processes;
• scientifically sound research of social and professional processes that determine the conditions of social work;
• developing and managing research plans;
• practical implementation of research results;
• participation in institutional management and service planning;
• professional assessment and expert report;
• developing presentations;
• participation in international cooperation;

The four-semester program combines the theory of social work with field work accompanied by case discussion groups. Students thus acquire experience about the practical applicability of the theories of social work, and their varied subject-based knowledge is integrated into practical competence.

By acquiring broad multidisciplinary knowledge in the course of the Master's program, students can assess the specific direction of their professional development and interests. The institute contributes to that process by specialised knowledge that results from an approach focussing on the family.

Graduates possess adequate knowledge to continue their studies at the doctoral level.

Further information about the program:

Péter Török (torokp@mental.usn.hu)
Zsuzsanna Ládonyi (ladonyi@mental.usn.hu)
Attila Pilinszki (pilinszki@mental.usn.hu)