TERRITORIAL SELF-GOVERNMENT AS AN ENVIRONMENT OF SOCIAL WORK USING A HELPING RELATIONSHIP TO SOLVE THE SOCIAL PROBLEMS OF INHABITANTS OF LOCAL COMMUNITIES

The territorial self-government environment creates opportunities for social work to intervene in citizens' individual, group, and community social problems, which benefits not only members of local communities but also the territorial self-government. The most effective means of social work intervention for the benefit of residents of territorial self-government is helping relationships. Therefore, we set the goal of our empirical research to identify factors that stimulate clients to solve their social problems within a helping relationship with a social worker in the conditions of a territorial self-government. In the theoretical part of the contribution, we deal with the application of social work in the conditions of territorial self-government in the Slovak Republic, as well as the helping alliance in social work. Keywords: territorial self-government, residents of local communities, intervention of social work, helping relationship, factors stimulating clients to solve their social problems