Автор: Patricia Runcan

Patricia-Luciana Runcan currently teaches at the Social Work Department of the West University in Timişoara. She holds a degree in Sociology from the same University and a degree in Law from Tibiscus University of Timişoara, Romania. She received her PhD in Sociology from the West University in Timişoara. She is the main organiser of the Social Work Symposium and of the International Conference of Applied Social Sciences. Since October 2011, she has been a Post-Doctorate Research Fellow in Social Work at Alexandru Ioan Cuza University in Iaşi, Romania. She has published extensively in Romanian and international journals and she has authored and co-authored ten books in the field of social work, including 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), Successful Scientific Paper in Humanities (2010), The Case Management Method (2011), and Depression in the Elderly (2013).