prof. PhDr. Eva Žiaková, CSc.

	Email:	eva.ziakova@upjs.sk
	Homepage:	https://www.upjs.sk/FF/zamestnanec/eva.ziakova
	Faculty:	FF UPJŠ - Pavol Jozef Šafárik University in Košice Faculty of Arts
	Department:	KSP - Department of Social Work
	Office:	S312
	Phone:	+421 55 234 7145
	ORCID ID:	https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8126-5451

As a young woman, I wanted to study psychology, especially in connection with difficult pre-start conditions in swimming competitions. As a teenager, I won the Slovak swimming championship. My love of swimming has lasted to this day, as well as my love of psychology. After years of studying, I found the most relationship with C. G. Jung and his ideas, which I try to transform into my life. After a while, I found out that in addition to mental problems, people suffer far more for various social problems such as unemployment, poverty, loneliness ... So I added my perspective and began to learn in the field of social work so that I was able to pass on as much knowledge as possible, but also attitudes to life, to my students. Learning makes me happy, although teaching online a little less, as I am a contact person and I feel more effective in transferring knowledge and attitudes in contact teaching. At the moment, I am trying to dedicate all my experience and skills, also to my students, who are already teachers, associate professors and associate professors in the interest of handing over the baton to the Department of Social Work, Faculty of Arts, UPJŠ. To date, I have educated several university professors, associate professors, assistant professors, hundreds of masters, bachelors .....

Higher education and further qualification growth

Second degree of higher education:

Faculty of Arts, UPJŠ in Košice, 1977, psychology

Third degree of higher education:

Faculty of Arts Komensky University in Bratislava, 1986, social psychology

Associate professor:

Faculty of Health and Social Work, Trnava University, 2003, Social work

Professor:

Faculty of Theology KU in Ružomberok, 2011, social work

Research /art/ teacher profile

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Overview of the responsibility for the delivery, development and quality assurance of the study programme or its part at the university in the current academic year
Study programme: Social work (Member of the Study Programme Council, Person responsible for teaching a profile course ), study field: Social work, first degree
Study programme: Social work (Person responsible for a study programme, Person responsible for teaching a profile course ), study field: Social work, second degree
Study programme: Integrative Social Work (Chairman of the Subject Area Board for Doctoral Studies, Person responsible for teaching a profile course) ), study field: Social work, third degree
Study programme: Social Work - Conversion Programme (Person responsible for a study programme, Person responsible for teaching a profile course ), study field: Social work, second degree
Profile courses
Social Psychology in Social Work - Social work, first degree
Psychology of Personality for Social Work - Social work, first degree
Psychopathology for Social Workers - Social work, second degree
The Meaning ofLife in Helping Professions - Integrative Social Work, third degree
Selected Problems of Clinical Social Work KSP/VPKSP/13 - Integrative Social Work, third degree
Overview of the responsibility for the development and quality of the field of habilitation procedure and inaugural procedure in the current academic year
Name of the field of habilitation procedure and inaugural procedure: Social work, study field to which it is assigned: Social work
Selected publications
ADM KAHAN, Ján – Eva ŽIAKOVÁ. 2018. Loneliness and the prospect of abstinence in addicts in the context of the ecosystem meta-theory of social work In: Adiktologie. ISSN 1213-3841. - Roč. 18, č. (2018), s. 199-206.
ADM LICHNER, Vladimír, PETRIKOVÁ, Františka, Eva ŽIAKOVÁ. Adolescents self-concept in the context of risk behaviour and self-care. In: International journal of adolescence and youth. - ISSN 0267-3843. - Roč.26, č. 1 (2021), s. 57-70.
ADM LICHNER, Vladimír, ŽIAKOVÁ, Eva, Enrico DITOMMASO. Assessment the Loneliness of Slovak Adolescents: Adaptation of the social and emotional loneliness scale for adults (SELSA-S) to adolescents and verification of psychometric attributes in the slovak version. In: Journal of Psychological and Educational Research. - ISSN 2247-1537. - Roč. 29, č. 1, (2021), s. 34-56.
ADM KAHAN, Ján, ŽIAKOVÁ, Eva. Social workers’ competence metatheory in the context of working with addicts at risk of Loneliness due to social isolation.In: AD ALTA : journal of interdisciplinary research. - ISSN 1804-7890. - Roč. 9, č. 2 (2019), s. 107-113.
ADM LICHNER, Vladimír, PETRIKOVÁ, Františka, ŽIAKOVÁ, Eva.Teoretické východiská skúmania starostlivosti o seba a rizikového správania u adolescentov. In: Sociální práce, ISSN 1213-6204. - Roč. 21, č. 2 (2021), s. 57-75.
Selected projects
008UPJŠ-4/2019 Cultural and Educational Grant Agency of the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports of the Slovak Republic (KEGA), Project title: Prevention of oncological diseases from the perspective of social work Project implementation period: 01/19 -12/20 Position in the project: deputy responsible researcher Brief description of the project: The result of the grant task was the development of a brochure for oncology patients entitled "Bedeker oncology treatment", which accurately guides patients on their path of cancer treatment.
1/0285/18 Scientific Grant Agency MŠVVaŠ SR and SAV (VEGA) Project title: Risk behavior of adolescents as clients of social work due to their loneliness Project implementation period: 01/18 - 12/20 Position in the project: responsible solver Brief description of the project: The ambition of the project developers was achieved: to examine the relationship between adolescents' loneliness and their risk behavior and to create a tool for measuring the loneliness of the target group. Research has shown that there is a correlation between experiencing loneliness and the occurrence of risky behavior in social work clients. At the same time, the team of the grant task proposed a tool for measuring loneliness as a possible preventive means in social work with clients. https://www.minedu.sk/vedecka-grantova-agentura-msvvas-sr-a-sav-vega/
2020-1414 UPJŠ internal scientific grant system in Košice Project title: Creation of a questionnaire for measuring the level of self-care in adolescents Project implementation period: 02 / 2020-01 / 2021 Position in the project: co-investigator of the project Brief description of the project: The aim of the project was to develop and verify a validated questionnaire - a research tool for measuring the level of self-care in the target group of adolescents. A new integrative approach to the issue made it possible to open the space for the identification of phenomena typical of self-care in the client group's own social work with a praxeological dimension within social practice. The basic thesis of the project was the fact that self-care can act as a preventive factor of various forms of risky behavior and at the same time its strengthening can be a topic for social workers.
1/0754/21 Scientific Grant Agency MŠVVaŠ SR and SAV (VEGA) Project title: "Push-pull" social factors related to the degree of radicalization of adolescents in the context of social work Project implementation period: 01 / 21-12 / 23 Position in the project: co-investigator of the project Brief description of the project: The main goal of the project is to compile a "push-pull" model of social and family predictors of adolescent radicalization and to verify the assumption that the radicalization process is influenced by specific operationalized factors. The project corresponds to the working fields of social work and the modeled predictors are influenced by its tools. It partially focuses on the exploration of the process of radicalization of adolescents in the conditions of the Slovak Republic and its identification. The result of the project will be a model of important social and family "push-pull" predictors of the process of radicalization of adolescents. https://www.minedu.sk/vedecka-grantova-agentura-msvvas-sr-a-sav-vega/
International mobilities and visits
Open University, Milton Keyness, great Britain, februar - april 2000, Exchange trip
University of Szczecin, Szczecin, januar - june 2009, employment contract
Organisational activities
Chair of the Academic Senate Facutly of Arts in Košice - Academic Senate Facutly of Arts in Košice, 2015 - present
Member of the editorial board of the magazine - Czech and Slovak Social Work, 2021 - present
Member of the Commission Vega no. 11 entitled "Social and behavioral sciences" - Vega Grant Agency, 2017 - present
Member of the assessors - Accreditation Agency of the Slovak Republic, 2020 - present
Member of the Scientific Council - Faculty of Arts Prešov Univerzity in Prešov, 2015 - present

Additional information

Awards

Award of the Dean of the Faculty of Education KU in Ružomberok in 2013 Ján Richter Award, Minister of Social Affairs and Family of the Slovak Republic for cooperation in drafting the Act on Social Work in 2014

Projects

1. Responsible researcher of the grant research VEGA 1/0282/12 Interdisciplinary analysis of the meaning of life and its components in socially important groups of adolescents in terms of its formation and possible intervention in 2012-2014. 2. Deputy responsible researcher of the grant research Kega 008UPJŠ-4/2019 entitled "Prevention of oncological diseases through the lens of social work". 3. Responsible researcher of the grant research VEGA 1/0213/15 Social and personal characteristics of oncology patients as one of the most important factors of sociotherapy with this group of clients. 2015-2017. 4. Responsible researcher of the grant research Vega no. 1/0285/18 entitled Risk behavior of adolescents as clients of social work due to their loneliness in the years 2018-2020

International collaboration

prof. UAM dr hab. Karol Mausch Uniwersytet im. A. Mickiewicza w Poznaniu Wydział Pedagogiczno-Artystyczny w Kaliszu Prof. UAM dr hab. Ewa Ryś Uniwersytet im. A. Mickiewicza w Poznaniu Wydział Pedagogiczno-Artystyczny w Kaliszu

Other

An important milestone in my life was illness - cancer, which directed me to help - both psychologically and socially - at patients who have a similar problem to me. For more than 20 years I have been dealing with the issue of oncology patients and their help. In this context, I published, together with my colleagues, a brochure entitled: Bedeker of oncological treatment" which was published by the Faculty of Arts of UPJŠ in Košice, but is also available on the website of the Department of Social Work, Faculty of Arts, UPJŠ.

Hobbies

Swimming, skiing, nature walks, reading books - C.G.Junga, but also detective stories

Further information

Taught courses and supervised study programmes