人与环境模式及其在社会(个案)工作中的应用

人与环境模式改变了问题取向模式只看个人及其问题的理念,特别强调个人与环境之间的互动,注重挖掘和利用服务对象及其系统自身拥有的正向资源,促进个人与环境之间的良性互动。本文以高女士的个案为例,详细论述了人与环境模式应用于社会(个案)工作的富有特色的工作过程和手法,并分析了应用过程中需要注意的问题。     

“人与环境”理论在个案评估中的运用和反思——以强强个案为例

本文以人在环境理论为基础,讨论强强个案介入的方法和策略。通过对环境系统地评估,发现案主的挑战和优势,同时也讨论社工所面临的价值选择。并反思社会工作实务在中国社会文化处境中的实践。     

青少年亲社会行为培养的社会工作介入途径

亲社会行为是道德行为的重要组成部分和最基础的行为表征,通过加强亲社会行为的培养,可以使青少年思想道德培养的认知效果更显著。社会工作采用个案工作、小组工作和社区工作的方法介入亲社会行为的培养,可以为青少年提供必要的帮助和支持,为其亲社会行为的培养提供新的途径与方法。     

民办高校中学校社会工作的介入模式探讨

民办高校中大学生存在的问题相对而言更复杂,而单纯的教育管理体制和心理咨询方法已经无法解决这种复杂的综合性问题,因此学校社会工作的介入显得更加必要.笔者针对民办高校大学生易发的一些学习和生活问题,进行了学校社会工作的介入模式的探讨.     

民办高校中学校社会工作的介入模式探讨

民办高校中大学生存在的问题相对而言更复杂,而单纯的教育管理体制和心理咨询方法已经无法解决这种复杂的综合性问题,因此学校社会工作的介入显得更加必要。笔者针对民办高校大学生易发的一些学习和生活问题,进行了学校社会工作的介入模式的探讨。     

浅析问题青少年行为矫治与社会工作者的介入

当前我国一些青少年受多种因素影响,产生了一些不良思想并导致了行为偏差,成为问题青少年,引起社会广泛关注。本文分析了问题青少年的成因和特点,并从社会工作专业角度阐述了可行的一些应对措施及工作方法。本文认为,社会工作者在解决青少年问题、引导青少年健康成长中起着越来越重要的作用,是家庭、学校的有益补充。     

青少年自杀行为与社工介入

生命的终结可以有很多种原因,多种形式,但是其中有一种特殊的形式,一个人主动决定并采取措施结束自己的生命,这就是自杀。自杀直接危害了人的生命,社会工作者相信人的生命不应被剥夺,积极协助案主避免受伤害。本文主要对青少年自杀行为进行浅显分析,并提出社工的介入策略。     

民办高校中学校社会工作的介入模式探讨

民办高校中大学生存在的问题相对而言更复杂,而单纯的教育管理体制和心理咨询方法已经无法解决这种复杂的综合性问题,因此学校社会工作的介入显得更加必要。笔者针对民办高校大学生易发的一些学习和生活问题,进行了学校社会工作的介入模式的探讨。     

浅析问题青少年行为矫治与社会工作者的介入

当前我国一些青少年受多种因素影响,产生了一些不良思想并导致了行为偏差,成为问题青少年,引起社会广泛关注。本文分析了问题青少年的成因和特点,并从社会工作专业角度阐述了可行的一些应对措施及工作方法。本文认为,社会工作者在解决青少年问题、引导青少年健康成长中起着越来越重要的作用,是家庭、学校的有益补充。     

“心理社会治疗模式”介入老年个案社会工作

该个案运用心理社会治疗模式和技巧,帮助案主认清自己的状况,消除疑病症的困扰。案主通过加强身体锻炼和心理辅导,有了较好的精神状态,达到了预期的治疗效果。     

Early intervention and holistic,relationship‐based practice with fathers: evidence from the work of the Family Nurse Partnership

This paper seeks to add to the literature on working with fathers by focusing on early intervention. It draws on research into fathers involved in a home visitation service delivered by the Family Nurse Partnership in England and evaluates the men's experiences of the intervention. The vulnerability of fathers was striking and many were helped to develop their practical skills and confidence in caring for their babies. The intervention was effective because of the quality time that was invested in developing relationships with fathers (as well as mothers), the focus on their strengths as well as areas for improvement and the skilled, therapeutically oriented, holistic approach through which the service was delivered. The ‘early’ nature of the help was crucial to its success because of how it so effectively tapped into the men's redefinition of themselves as caring fathers during pregnancy and following the birth. We argue that there is important learning here for social care and health services in general about how to engage men and promote fathers' capacities to care for their children.     

浅析高校社会工作实验室利用问题

我国高等院校社会工作专业实验室建设的步伐在日益加快,社会工作专业的教师和学生对实验室在教学过程中扮演的重要角色认识的也愈来愈清楚。由于目前实验室的利用仍然处在一个摸索前进的阶段,仍然普遍存在着一些亟待解决的问题.如何充分发挥社会工作实验室的作用,科学合理利用实验室的资源业已成为每一个社会工作专业工作者关心的主要问题。本文针对目前国内高校中社会工作实验室的现状,结合作者本身工作经验,提出了一些改进措施。     

Social work education: state of the art

In assessing the appropriateness of contemporary social work education to its context, the article assumes that social work practice and education must relate to its social reality. The article argues that, since the 1970s, that reality has changed in relation to the role of the welfare state, perceptions of economic growth and the independence of the state. As a result, the roles of civil society, the community and welfare personnel have changed, with implications for social work. At the same time, the earlier tendency of social work to avoid the major social issues of the day is no longer appropriate, and the article outlines five major issues needing to be addressed by social work. In conclusion, the article presents four options that social work education should, as a total profession, address, if the profession is to play the roles demanded of it by its contemporary social reality.     

Bridging the gap: feminist theory and practice reality in work with the perpetrators of child sexual abuse

Child sexual abuse has been a focus of concern for feminist writers for over a decade, and social work and probation practitioners are spending an increasing amount of time undertaking intervention with men who sexually abuse children. This paper uses a review of feminist literature which identifies three contested areas in the feminist discussion: theory, power and the fixity of gender, and discusses whether these debates are reflected in any way in the interventions being undertaken with men who sexually abuse children. The conclusion reached is of a distance between theory which draws on a radical patriarchal analysis of child sexual abuse and the practice of those who attempt to work with the perpetrators of such abuse. Although some workers frame their intervention in terms of a patriarchal understanding of society and of the nature of power within this – to this extent following a radical feminist approach – there is a sense in which practitioners' use of feminist theory is only partial. Thus feminist theory is often presented as unitary and there is a sense in which practitioners who say they are espousing feminism are not in touch with the subtleties of feminist analysis revealed in the literature review. In addition, the logic of the radical feminist perspective is not followed through in practice as there is evidence of a sensitivity to difference which may be aligning practitioners with a post-modern/post-structural interpretation of men's sexual violence towards children.     

The return of the political in social work

This article is a follow-up to our article 'Revisiting social work as art' and in part a response to Karen Healy's reply [both published in IJSW 17(2)]. It is, however, also a significant extension of this material since it engages with more general concerns about the critical project that is intrinsic to social work. Social work is not just about self-foundation based on knowledge, values and skills formation, but also about self-assertion. Crucially, it is through this notion of self-assertion that social work can be best understood as an agent of change. This transformative aspect of social work is our central focus. We are not concerned with structural conditions of power and domination but with theorising what a transformative politics would look like for social work using the lens of the French political philosopher Alain Badiou as a conceptual medium for permitting the return of the political for social work.     

Social work with youth in social withdrawal: in-home and beyond-home intervention modalities

This article discusses the characteristics and the process of in-home and beyond-home social work intervention with young people suffering from social withdrawal in the form of chronic self-seclusion at home. These young people are characterized by their socially avoidant behaviour and are deprived of the enjoyment of legitimate social status as a student, worker or trainee. As a way of confronting this problem, ‘start where the client is’ – an age-old social work intervention principle – can be read in a literal sense, i.e. taking home as a secure place for rapport-building and initial intervention with the clients to pave the way for further intervention beyond the home setting, both online and offline. Drawing on qualitative interviews with youth clients and social workers, it is argued that adopting a flexible, informal and tailor-made approach to working with youth in silent and invisible disengagement from the rest of society has to take into consideration spatial, relational and organizational dimensions of intervention modalities and possibilities if the goal of youth reengagement is to be achieved.     

Historical development and characteristics of social work in today's China

Social work education has experienced three stages since its introduction to China in the 1920s: introduction, abolishment and reinstatement. Theoretically, there are four types of social work in China: official–educational, official–practical, voluntary–educational and voluntary–practical. In practice, all four types of social work have not necessarily been embodied in each developmental stage, and the order of their historical development is not the same as the order of their logical development; i.e. some types are lacking in some of the stages. Each type of social work has its own characteristics, which are integrated into each development stage. Today, Chinese social work faces two major interrelated tasks: the professionalisation and the institutionalisation of social work. The former refers to the development of standardisation in Chinese social work; the latter has to do with the development of the social welfare institution in general and the development of institutional welfare in particular. In general, the dramatic development in Chinese social work largely depends on the accomplishment of the two tasks.     

Mental health in postgraduate social work curriculum: Review of training contents in Indian schools of social work

Training of social workers according to the changing needs of the society is important. To this end, we decided to review the adequacy of mental health training in postgraduate programme in social work. The Mental Health Care Act 2017 defines psychiatric social worker (PSW) in India to have additional higher qualification beyond post‐graduation in social work. The number of such qualified PSWs appears to be limited due to small number of institutes that offer advanced training in the country. Though, the number of available PSWs with such qualifications is rising, the manpower in proportion to the mental health needs in the country continues to remain low. It is therefore, relevant to review the quality of psychiatric social work education at postgraduate level if this level is to be considered as the desirable qualification for PSW. In this context, postgraduate social work syllabi from 71 universities including autonomous institutions were reviewed using semi‐structured assessment. The results show a lack of uniform teaching components, training methods and insufficient skill orientation towards mental health interventions. These observations suggest that curricula and training are modified with strengthening and enhancing the quality of training of mental health at post‐graduate level in Social Work.     

Social work programmes in the social democratic welfare regime

In this article we examine the emergence of social worker training in the Nordic countries and discuss the possible effects that the social democratic welfare regime has had on such training. We also discuss the development in recent decades of the academisation of the training and the establishment of social work as a subject of research and teaching. The early history of social worker education is based on archival material, national inquiries and secondary sources. Our presentation of the recent history of social work education is based on the responses to a questionnaire sent to teachers of social work in 33 Nordic social work programmes, and on a survey of course syllabi and prospectuses. It is also based on the reading lists for the social work courses in these programmes.     

A study of social distance in the implementation of the national minority social work in Xinjiang

Abstract

As a subfield of social work studies, social work for ethnic minorities has drawn the attention of academics and practitioners in recent years. In Mainland China, hardly anyone is involved in social work concerning ethnic minorities, and barely a handful of practical research papers on ethnic minority social work are available. This paper seeks to study practical social work for ethnic minorities from the perspective of social distance. It describes the major social distance scales and the main causes behind the formation of social distance, as well as several strategies in response to the social distance in ethnic minority social work.