Study Spatial and Clinical Social Work, master's
The degree program builds specific action skills and social work research skills. It offers two unique specializations: socio-spatial orientation and clinical social work.
Clinical social work deals with the connection between social problems and health-related well-being. The addressees are often confronted with multiple challenges. In practice, clinical social workers work in almost all fields of social work, which highlights the diversity of this discipline. As part of psychosocial counseling and treatment, clinical social workers carry out, amongst other things, social diagnostics, intervention planning and their evaluation. Clinical social work interventions are fundamentally aimed at stabilizing or restoring social participation.
Spatial social work focuses on the development and implementation of socio-spatial concepts and projects as well as the design of social spaces, including outreach and low-threshold social work, open child and youth work, assistance for the homeless, and community and district work. In spatial social work, we not only work directly with the addressees of social work, but also with the media and stakeholders in administration and politics.
What makes this degree program special
Clinical social work
- addresses social problems such as homelessness and poverty, youth and society, and appropriation of public space empirically, theoretically, and in terms of action
- enables inter- and transdisciplinary professional action as well as work in public with media and actors of administration and politics
- Involves addressees as experts for their living environments
Spatial social work
- supports all areas of social work with direct client contact
- Positions itself at the interface of social services and healthcare
- Builds competencies for social therapeutic treatment of hard-to-reach clients, among others.
- is a specialist discipline recognized by the WHO
Further information about the study program (admission requirements, curriculum, etc.) can be found here: www.hcw.ac.at/sozraum-m-en
