Simon Süsstrunk

    Undergraduate and postgraduate education and work experience

    • Lecturer and research associate (FHNW University of Applied Sciences Northwestern Switzerland, School of Social Work)
    • Master of Arts in Social Work (FHNW)
    • Bachelor of Science in Social Work - community development

    Main focus

    Research and development

    • Support for complex health and social restrictions (REAS project)
    • Social work in health care (integrated care)
    • Impact research: mechanisms of action of health-related social work (projects ALIMEnt I and II)
    • Development Monitoring Case Management
    • Active mobility and social resources in old age
    • Urban development and health promotion
    • Peer counselling for obese children and adolescents

    Teaching

    • MA07 - Concepts and methods of research-based practice
    • BA106 - Fundamentals of professional action
    • BA115 - Bachelor thesis
    • BA242 - Clinical social work
    • BA136 - Case-based reasoning III - In the context of discipline and the profession, SPSA - Systems Theoretical Paradigm of Social Work
    • BA348 - Social Work in Addiction Services. How to intervene?

    Continuing  education

    Further information

    SAGES, Swiss Association for Health-Related Social Work, Board Member, Expert Commission "Education and Research" and "Integrated Care", https://www.sages.ch/vorstand/

    Publications and projects