Author: Georgeta Rata

Patricia-Luciana Runcan currently works as a Senior Lecturer at the West University of Timişoara, Romania. She holds a BA in Sociology from the same University, a BA in Law from the “Tibiscus” University of Timişoara, and a PhD in Sociology from the West University of Timişoara. Her main areas of interest include social work and sociology. She has authored Social Workers Face to Face with Their Clients (2006), Social Work: Family and Child (2008), Child Protection in Romania (2009), The National System of Social Work (2009), Depression in the Elderly (2010), Successful Scientific Paper in Humanities (2010), and The Case Management Method (2011).Georgeta Raţă currently works as an Associate Professor at the Banat University of Agricultural Sciences and Veterinary Medicine in Timişoara, Romania. She holds a BA in French and English and a PhD in Linguistics from the University of Bucharest, Romania. Her main areas of interest include languages, communication, and education sciences. She has co-edited Social Sciences Today: Between Theory and Practice (2010) and Academic Days of Timişoara: Social Sciences Today (2011).Mihai-Bogdan Iovu currently works as a Senior Lecturer at the “Babeş-Bolyai” University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania. He holds a BA in Social Work and a PhD in Sociology from the same university. His main areas of interest include child maltreatment, children”s rights, child protection policies, and evidence-based social work practices. He has authored The Social Universe of Adolescence in the Context of Physical Disability (2007) and Conceptualizing Child Abuse and Neglect within the Family (2008).