The goal of the article is to reveal the spheres of ethnic questions related to loyalty emerging during students’ internship, as well as the types of questions. The Article presents part of results obtained during the research carried out with a view to identifying the questions of ethics and students’ problems during the social work internship. Afterwards issues related to preparation of social workers and quality of services are discussed. The research is based on the analysis of cases accumulated and presented by students during the period of 2006-2008 where they faced problems related to ethics. Questions could be grouped into four categories: loyalty to traditions and culture of an organisation, loyalty to disabled persons, loyalty to rules and orders of an organisation and loyalty to laws.

The authors of this paper seek to find out the experiences of biological children growing-up in families together with foster child / children. This has been the first research in Lithuania with the aim to provide a deeper understanding of this phenomenon from the very own perspective of biological children. A qualitative research has been conducted. Two methods of defining the target group sample were combined: selection according to convenience and the snowball selection. The participants of the research were young persons from age 13 to 19: 2 boys and 8 girls, living in their biological families that raise foster child (children). Semi-structural interview has been selected as the main instrument for reaching the research goal. Collected qualitative data was analyzed by using the method of interpretative phenomenological analysis. The research has shown that after a foster child comes into a foster family, the whole family life changes: interpersonal relationships, roles, rules. The foster parents’ biological children go through a range of different emotions: confusion, surprise, loss, anxiety, fear, might feel neglected or pushed aside. Usually it takes quite a long time to get used to the changed situation and to a new member in their family. Frequently, if biological children are older then the foster child, they will take up a role of an older sister or brother, and the duties that accompany these roles. If foster parents’ biological children get attached to foster child, they will go through difficult experiences when a foster child leaves the family. It has been found out that a fostering of a child in their family is worthy: biological children learn to take care of younger children, to be emphatic, to understand other people, as well as acquire dailylife problem solving skills.

Kalbėdami apie socialinio darbo profesijos konceptualizavimą įvairūs autoriai mini svarbą moralės ir etikos, kurios turėtų būti integruojamos su žiniomis ir įgūdžiais, tačiau žinoti vertybes, normas ir principus dar nereiškia juos integruoti kasdieninėje praktikoje. Todėl profesinių kompetencijų struktūroje išskiriama etinė kompetencija. Šio straipsnio tikslas – atskleisti etinės kompetencijos sampratą ir jos vystymo praktikoje galimybes.

Socialinio darbuotojo, dirbančio su socialinės rizikos šeimomis ir dalyvaujančio vaiko paėmimo iš šeimos procese, profesinis vaidmuo yra daugialypis, susidedantis iš daugybės vaidmenų, kurie dažnai yra nesuderinami, prieštarauja vienas kitam. Esant vaidmenų nesuderinamumui gali iškilti vaidmenų konfliktų, kurie sąlygoja stresą darbe, nusivylimą ar išsekimą. Straipsnyje pristatomo tyrimo tikslas – nustatyti, kokių vaidmenų konfliktų ir kodėl patiria socialinis darbuotojas, dalyvaudamas vaiko paėmimo iš šeimos procese.