Štandardizácia sociálnych služieb a jej vplyv na kvalitu života

The main objectives of social work include improving people’s living conditions and to help meet their basic needs, especially those living in poverty, or are in any way oppressed. Social workers seek to mitigate and eliminate various forms of social injustice, while carrying out their task commonly faces with misunderstanding and often unappreciated. Taking into account this fact and the fact that the concept of an standards in the last few years not only in Slovakia, but the whole world has become a phenomen that “deserves “ our attention, we decided to approach it from the perspective of social work. In this contribution, we will focus on what the standards are, how they arise and also how important they are. We will point out areas of social work in which standards most commonly occur.