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doc. Mgr. Vladimír Lichner, PhD.   SK

Email:
vladimir.lichner@upjs.sk
Homepage:
https://www.upjs.sk/FF/zamestnanec/vladimir.lichner
Faculty:
FF UPJŠ - Pavol Jozef Šafárik University in Košice Faculty of Arts
Department:
KSP - Department of Social Work
Office:
S307
Phone:
+421 55 234 7194
ORCID ID:
0000-0002-8726-6340
Since completing my doctoral studies, I have worked as a teacher and researcher at the Department of Social Work at the Faculty of Arts at Pavol Jozef Šafárik University in Košice, Slovakia. I specialise in teaching theoretical, historical, methodological, and statistical aspects of social work as well as helping social workers in training develop their consulting and supervisory skills. My motivation to focus on social work developed from childhood, since my mother worked at a children’s home and I was in contact with the children who were raised there. When it came to choosing education and profession, I was naturally interested in social issues. From the beginning of my university studies, I participated in volunteering and educational activities. I participated in stays for children raised in children's homes and children with behavioural disorders; later I started cooperating with non-profit organisations focused on helping children and young people with educational issues. After completing my Master’s degree, I decided to pursue a PhD while I continued to work with non-profit organisations focused on helping children with educational issues, rehabilitation of the family environment and specialised assistance in divorce or break-up situations. It followed naturally that I began my career working at the Children’s Helpline as a consultant in 2014. In 2018, I became its director. In terms of research, I focus on socially pathological behaviour, mainly in young people, with the emphasis on membership of risky social groups, but I also research self-care and prevention of socially risky forms of behaviour. I am continuously trying to put my professional experience into practice as an supervisor and external collaborator and lecturer in the creation of concepts and methodology, and in training social workers that provide remote consulting.

Higher education and further qualification growth
First degree of higher education:
Pavol Jozef Šafárik University in Košice, Faculty of Arts, 2010, Social Work
Second degree of higher education:
Pavol Jozef Šafárik University in Košice, Faculty of Arts, 2012, Social Work
Third degree of higher education:
Pavol Jozef Šafárik University in Košice, Faculty of Arts, 2015, Social Work (Integrative Social Work)
Associate professor:
Pavol Jozef Šafárik University in Košice, Faculty of Arts, 2021, 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: SPFb, SPFbex, SPFb-e - Social Work (Person Responsible for a Study Programme, Chair of the Study Programme Council; Person responsible for teaching a profile course; Member of the State Final Exams Committee), study field: Social Work, bachelor (Full-Time and Part-Time form) degree
Study programme: SPFm, SPFmex, SPFm-e - Social Work (Member of the Study Programme Council; Person responsible for teaching a profile course; Member of the State Final Exams Committee), study field: Social Work, master (Full-Time and Part-Time form) degree
Study programme: SPFmK, SPFmexK, SPFm-eK - Social Work - Conversion Programme (Member of the Study Programme Council; Person responsible for teaching a profile course; Member of the State Final Exams Committee), study field: Social Work, master (Full-Time and Part-Time form) degree
Study programme: ISPd, ISPdex - Integrative Social Work (Member of the Subject Area Board for Doctoral Studies; Person responsible for teaching a profile course; Member of the Commission for Dissertation Exams, Dissertation Thesis Supervisor), study field: Social Work, doctoral (Full-Time and Part-Time form) degree
Profile courses
KSP/HSP1/15 History of Social Work 1 - Social Work, bachelor degree
KSP/SPpSP/10 Social Policy for Social Work - Social Work, bachelor degree
KSP/TaMSP/15 Theories and Methodology of Social Work - Social Work, master degree
KSP/PTISP/08 Counselling, Therapy and Intervention in Social Work - Social Work, master degree
KSP/DvSP/12 Diagnostics in Social Work - Integrative Social Work, doctoral 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 (Member of the Subject Area Council for Habilitation and Inauguration Procedures ), study field to which it is assigned: Social Work
Selected publications

178894: [AAB] LICHNER, V. 2020. Analýza radikálnych a extrémistických skupín, hnutí, siekt a kultov a ich pôsobenie v Slovenskej republike [Analysis of the Radical and Extremist Groups, Movements, Sects and Cults and their Activities in the Slovak Republic] [online]. Košice: Univerzita Pavla Jozefa Šafárika v Košiciach. 163 s. ISBN 9788081528392. https://unibook.upjs.sk/img/cms/2020/ff/analyza-radikalnych-extremistickych-skupin.pdf

70715: [ADM] LICHNER, V., HALACHOVÁ, M., LOVAŠ, L. 2018. The concept of self-care, work engagement, and burnout syndrome among slovak social workers. Czech and Slovak Social Work, 18(4), 62-75. ISSN 1213-6204.

310331: [ADM] LICHNER, V., ŽIAKOVÁ, E., DiTOMMASO, E. 2021. 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. Journal of Psychological and Educational Research 29(1), 34-56. ISSN 2247-1537.

249166: [ADM] LICHNER, V., PETRIKOVÁ, F., ŽIAKOVÁ, E. 2021. Adolescents self-concept in the context of risk behaviour and self-care. International Journal of Adolescence and Youth, 26(1), 57-70. ISSN 0267-3843. DOI 10.1080/02673843.2021.1884102

255993: [ADM] LICHNER, V., PETRIKOVÁ, F., ŽIAKOVÁ, E. 2021. Teoretické východiská skúmania starostlivosti o seba a rizikového správania u adolescentov [Theoretical Basis for the Study of Self-care and Risk Behavior in Adolescents]. Czech and Slovak Social Work, 21(2), 57-75. ISSN 1213-6204.

Selected projects

2/0173/24 Scientific Grant Agency of the Ministry of Education of the Slovak Republic (ME SR) and of Slovak Academy of Sciences (SAS) (VEGA)

Project title: "Learning from intimate relationships among young adults in Slovakia: the role of relationship types and cognitive

rigidity"

Project implementation period: 01/24-12/27

Position in the project: investigator (deputy of principal investigator)

Brief description of the project: The project aims to use a longitudinal mixed design to capture changes in reported learning from intimate relationships among young adults in Slovakia and the role played by relationship types and changes in relationships, cognitive rigidity, and cultural models. The phenomenon of learning from intimate relationships (LIR), that is, changes in thinking and behavior mediated by relational experience, facilitates both increased relational quality and relational development. Thus, it represents an application potential for both educational and clinical practice. However, several areas of this phenomenon are as yet uncharted. The present project builds on the APVV project 18-0303 on the topic of intimate relationships, which also resulted in a qualitative exploratory study on LIV. These findings are to be used in the project to develop and validate an instrument to measure LIV, which is lacking in the scientific discourse, and to fill other research gaps.

JUST-2019-AG-DRUGS: SEP-21063817 - JUSTICE PROGRAMME (European Committee), SUPPORTING INITIATIVES IN THE FIELD OF DRUGS POLICY

Project title: Implementing Methamphetamine Prevention Strategies into Action – IMPRESA

Project implementation period: 01/21-06/23

Position in the project: investigator

Brief description of the project: The project is focused on the selection and implementation of specific interventions aimed at prevention of methamphetamine use in selected European cities. At the level of individual cities, the most appropriate methamphetamine prevention strategy will be developed according to specific local needs and resources and based on the results of a mapping of all stakeholders. The intervention strategy will then be implemented at the local level.

https://www.upjs.sk/filozoficka-fakulta/projekty/IMPRESA/

1/0754/21 Scientific Grant Agency of the Ministry of Education of the Slovak Republic (ME SR) and of Slovak Academy of Sciences (SAS) (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: investigator (deputy of principal investigator)

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 process of radicalization is influenced by specific operationalized factors. The project corresponds to the working fields of social work and the modeled predictors are influenced by social work methods. It partially focuses on the exploration of the process of adolescents' radicalization 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 adolescents' radicalization process.

2020-1414 Pavol Jozef Šafárik University in Košice Internal Scientific and Grant Agency (VVGS UPJŠ)

Project title: Creation of the Adolescents Self-Care Questionnaire

Project implementation period: 02/20-01/21

Position in the project: principal investigator

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 the 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 for 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.

1/0285/18 Scientific Grant Agency of the Ministry of Education of the Slovak Republic (ME SR) and of Slovak Academy of Sciences (SAS) (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: investigator

Brief project description: 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.

14-0921 The Slovak Research and Development Agency of the Ministry of Education, Science, Research and Sports of the Slovak Republic (APVV)

Project title: Self-care as a factor of coping with the negative consequences of the practicizing the helping professions

Project implementation period: 07/15-06/19

Position in the project: investigator

Brief project description: The basic objective of the project is to verify the assumption that self-care is a predictor of experienced negative consequences of practising the helping professions. To this end, a follow-up verification of the possibility of eliminating the negative effects of practising the helping professions by means of change in self-care of people engaged in helping professions. Part of the verification of the hypothesis is revealing the current state of self-care in people doing helping professions in social care, as well as the simultaneous occurrence of negative consequences of practising the helping professions such as experiencing stress, burnout, vicarious trauma, and dissatisfaction with their work. The results will be validated questionnaires for self-care in helping professions, the acquisition of knowledge regarding these issues and the construction of intervention programs aimed to change the self-care and eliminate the negative effects of practising the helping professions. Intervention programs will be provided to welfare facilities.

https://www.apvv.sk/buxus/docs/zk/zk-apvv-14-0921.pdf

International mobilities and visits
Technical University of Applied Sciences Würzburg-Schweinfurt, Faculty of Applied Social Science, Münzstr. 12, 97070 Würzburg Germany, 18. - 22.10.2023, ERASMUS+
Institut social de Lille - Université Catholique de Lille, 60 Bd Vauban bâtiment Rizomm, 59800 Lille, France, 8. - 12.10.2024, ERASMUS+
Organisational activities
Czech and Slovak Social Work Journal (SCOPUS) - Member of the Editorial Board, 2023 - present
VEGA Scientific Agency - Member of the Commitee (no. 11) for social and behavioral sciences, 2023 - present
ERIS Expert - ERIS - European Research Institute of Social Work, 2023-present
Member of Association of Social Work Educators in Slovakia - Association of Social Work Educators in Slovakia, 2013-present
Member of Academic Senate of Pavol Jozef Šafárik University in Košice - Academic Senate of Pavol Jozef Šafárik University in Košice, 2019-present
Member of the Subject Area Board for Doctoral Studies (external) - Matej Bel University in Banská Bystrica, Faculty of Education, 2022-present
Committee for Children and Youth of the Government Council for Human Rights, National Minorities and Gender Equality - Ministry of Labour, Social Affairs and Family of The Slovak Republic, Government of the Slovak Republic, 2022-present
Project Reviewer - VEGA Grant Agency, 2017-present
Member, founding - Chamber of Social Workers and Social Work Assistants, 2015-2017
Project Reviewer - University of South Bohemia in České Budějovice, 2021-2022

Additional information

Projects
2/0173/24 Scientific Grant Agency of the Ministry of Education, Science, Research and Sport of the Slovak Republic and the Slovak Academy of Sciences (VEGA) Project Title: "Learning from Intimate Relationships among Young Adults in Slovakia: The Role of Relationship Types and Cognitive Rigidity" Project Duration: 01/24-12/27 Role in the Project: Deputy Principal Investigator (responsible for project implementation within the Ministry of Education section) JUST-2019-AG-DRUGS: SEP-21063817 - JUSTICE PROGRAMME (European Commission), SUPPORTING INITIATIVES IN THE FIELD OF DRUGS POLICY Project Title: Implementing Methamphetamine Prevention Strategies into Action – IMPRESA Project Duration: 01/21-06/23 Role in the Project: Co-investigator 1/0754/21 Scientific Grant Agency of the Ministry of Education, Science, Research and Sport of the Slovak Republic and the Slovak Academy of Sciences (VEGA) Project Title: “Push-Pull” Social Factors Related to the Degree of Radicalization of Adolescents in the Context of Social Work Project Duration: 01/21-12/23 Role in the Project: Deputy Principal Investigator 2020-1414 Internal Scientific Grant System of Pavol Jozef Šafárik University in Košice (VVGS UPJŠ) Project Title: Development of a Questionnaire for Measuring the Level of Self-Care in Adolescents Project Duration: 02/20-01/21 Role in the Project: Principal Investigator 1-0285-18 Scientific Grant Agency of the Ministry of Education, Science, Research and Sport of the Slovak Republic and the Slovak Academy of Sciences (VEGA) Project Title: Risk Behavior of Adolescents as Clients of Social Work Due to Their Loneliness Project Duration: 01/18-12/20 Role in the Project: Co-investigator 14-0921 Slovak Research and Development Agency (APVV) Project Title: Self-Care as a Factor for Coping with the Negative Consequences of Helping Professions Project Duration: 07/15-06/19 Role in the Project: Co-investigator
International collaboration
As part of international collaboration, I have participated in several international stays within the framework of the ERASMUS+ program. I serve as a contact person for the Department of Social Work's membership in the European Association of Schools of Social Work (EASSW). I am also an expert at the European Research Institute of Social Work (ERIS) and a member of the editorial board of the journal Sociálna práca / Sociální práce / Czech and Slovak Social Work, which is indexed in international citation databases. In recent years, I have been involved in scientific activities as part of an international consortium in addressing the research project "JUST-2019-AG-DRUGS: SEP-21063817 Implementing Methamphetamine Prevention Strategies into Action – IMPRESA." I have also collaborated with prominent scholars in the field of loneliness research, including Prof. E. diTommaso from the University of New Brunswick, Canada, and Prof. T. G. van Tilburg from Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
Other
www.linkadeti.sk - website of Children's helpline in Košice, where I have been a consultant since 2014 and since 2018 also the director
Hobbies
Traveling, a good movie or series, a good book, riding a motorcycle

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