25. March '24
A group of eighteen people, casually dressed, smiles at the camera while standing outdoors on a paved area. Behind them, a hilly landscape with Hochschule Coburg’s building comes into view under a cloudy sky.
A group of eighteen people, casually dressed, smiles at the camera while standing outdoors on a paved area. Behind them, a hilly landscape with Hochschule Coburg's building comes into view under a cloudy sky.
A group of twenty people, including students and staff from Hochschule Coburg, poses outdoors with a scenic view of a hilltop castle in the background. The men and women, dressed casually, stand smiling on a paved area surrounded by grass and trees.
A group of twenty people, including students and staff from Hochschule Coburg, poses outdoors with a scenic view of a hilltop castle in the background. The men and women, dressed casually, stand smiling on a paved area surrounded by grass and trees.
The extra-occupational Master’s in Social Work: Clinical Social Work has just been successfully reaccredited for the third time – and the 23rd cohort has already started their studies. From the far north in Husum to Bern, the new students came to Coburg at the weekend from all over Germany and Switzerland to begin their studies on the part-time Master’s in Clinical Social Work.
They are professionals who are already working in very different fields of social work, for example in forensic psychiatry, child, youth and family support and help for homeless and homeless people.
The new study group is united by the desire to expand their professional skills in the areas of psychosocial diagnostics, psychosocial counseling, social therapy and crisis intervention.
Over the next five semesters, the almost 20 social workers will have weekend blocks at the two study locations in Coburg and Berlin. Widely appreciated in the scientific community The continuing education Master’s in Social Work: Clinical Social Work has been offered by Coburg University of Applied Sciences together with the Alice Salomon University of Applied Sciences in Berlin as a part-time course for over 20 years.
The pioneering role of the course was recently recognized by the Accreditation Council.
Over the past two decades, the extra-occupational Master’s degree course has made a significant contribution to establishing clinical social work as a specialist social work field.
The report states: “Following the example of the KlinSa course, further Master’s courses with a clear commitment to the content and objectives of clinical social work were created in the following years. Consequently, the KlinSa program is highly regarded in the scientific community and has already produced a large number of highly qualified graduates, who in turn have contributed significantly to the further development of clinical social work.”
The degree program was reaccredited by the Accreditation Council without any conditions – this is already the third reaccreditation.
According to the panel of experts, the research strength of the teaching staff in particular makes the course stand out.
The two course directors, Prof. Dr. Christine Kröger from Coburg University of Applied Sciences and Prof. Dr. Silke Birgitta Gahleitner from Alice Salomon University of Applied Sciences in Berlin, and their team are delighted with this positive result.
The professionalization of social workers is particularly important against the backdrop of highly topical developments and crises affecting society as a whole, such as the war in Europe, massive migration movements and high inflation rates. Diversity of professional backgrounds enriches the course Clinical social work feels a particular obligation to support people in complex stressful situations who are often hardly or only inadequately reached by healthcare and psychosocial services.
The aim is to open up constructive and development-promoting spaces of experience for “hard-to-reach” people through socio-therapeutic interventions.
“Social-clinical tasks arise in very different fields of social work,” explains Prof. Dr. Christine Kröger. “Our students experience the diversity of professional experience and backgrounds as a great enrichment for the joint learning and development process.”
“The demand for our social-clinical courses is high,” says Prof. Dr. Christine Kröger “In the summer semester, a total of over 200 students enrolled on a Master’s degree course at our university.
A quarter of these, i.e. 50 students, opted for a course in clinical social work, either part-time in our cooperative degree course with Alice Salomon University or as part of the consecutive Master’s in Social Work with a specialization in clinical social work“.
