Due to the interdisciplinary orientation of the department and a social development characterised by changes, families are placed in the focus of an understanding of a manufacturing and design process of the "doing family". Using the interdisciplinary view of the curriculum vitae, students learn social work and psychological-pedagogical concepts, theoretical foundations and cross-disciplinary skills that enable them to provide and implement tailored help and resource-oriented offers for the addressees.

Integration in the international scientific context in the following areas: Inclusion, early help, mentoring, health services research.

Fachhochschule Oberösterreich, Linz, Austria; University of Essex, Colchester, Great Britain; University of North Carolina Wilmington (UNCW), USA.,Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, Seoul,Hawaii Pacific University, Honolulu,University of Brighton,UCLL Leuven-Limburg

Online catalogue of the MSB; licensed databases: DZISolit, wiso Wirtschaftswissenschaften and wiso Praxis, Statista- the statistics portal, PsycINFO, PsycARTICLES, Medline Complete, CINAHL Complete, Business Source Premier, SocINDEX with Full Text, Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection, Beck-Online, OECD iLibrary, access to 80 DFG (German Research Foundation) -funded national licenses, access to different years of e-book packages from different publishers such as Springer, utb, Campus, Pearson, Beltz, Schattauer, Kohlhammer and EVS, e-book packages from a subscription database.

Students have the opportunity to participate in curricular and extracurricular research projects and receive an application-oriented education in quantitative and qualitative research methods. The research focus areas are Needs Assessments and Evaluations in the context of Child and Youth Welfare. There is a very good networking for this purpose with the municipal practice offices in public, independent and church sponsorship.

Advisory and project services by the university’s Career Centre. Module and project content on the topics of "Founding an Institution", "Founding an Association", "Acquiring Third-Party Funds", "Project Management" and "Concept Development".