儿童家暴社会工作介入的伦理困境——基于深圳鹏星家庭暴力防护中心的实践

近年来,儿童遭受或目睹家暴问题越来越突出,是社会工作亟须介入的重要方面,然而,社工在介入过程中面临着诸多伦理困境,主要涉及社会工作干预与法律、政策、文化背景及社会工作专业伦理相冲突的问题。基于深圳鹏星家庭暴力防护中心的实践和案例,总结出社工在面临相关伦理困境时,需要扮演好政策倡导者、受虐儿童的支持者等角色,以期更好地保护儿童权益,促进儿童身心健康成长。     

以社会工作理念和方法重塑民政福利服务——上海民政事业单位社会工作发展集锦

上海市第一社会福利院（以下简称一福院）自2000年便开始了社会工作职业化、专业化的探索。2004年设立了直接隶属于院部的社会工作部，目前有专职社工5人，有社工资质的员工15人。经过10多年的努力，一福院社会工作在服务理念的渗透、服务资源的整合、服务手段的创新等方面都有了全面的发展，并形成了专业化机构养老社工介入模式，先后被评为上海市社会工作示范单位、首批全国社会工作人才队伍建设试点示范单位，为创建新型的养老服务模式打下了基础。     

企业社会工作的作业面、作业方式和作业模式

企业社工服务进入我国的时间不长,作为这一领域的探索者,其价值在于敢闯敢试,闯出可复制的企业社工服务之路.2009年12月4日,深圳市龙岗区至诚社会工作服务中心(以下简称至诚)成立.2010年,至诚被中国社会工作协会授予全国5家"中国社会工作实务创新基地"之一,也是其中唯一一家企业社工实务基地;2011年10月,至诚承(协)办了首届全国企业社会工作建设研讨会;2012年,至诚的企业社会工作服务项目被民政部评为"首届全国优秀专业社会工作服务项目"三等奖.至诚勇于探索企业社工服务新路,主要做法是循序确定服务的作业面,开发作业方式,建立作业模式,为打造"幸福员工"、"健康企业"与"和谐社会"倾尽全力.     

专业社会工作介入社会救助研讨会召开

1月21日，由北京社会管理职业学院社会工作系举办的“专业社会工作介入社会救助”研讨会在京召开，来自民政相关部门的领导、社会工作学术界的专家学者、社工事务所的一线社工共聚一堂，研讨和交流专业社会工作介入低保家庭救助的成效与难点。     

灾后重建社会工作：万里长征第—步

灾后重建中的社会工作大规模介入事实上在2008年汶川地震之后就已经开始了。那年,许多社工教育界和实务界的同仁不约而同先后奔赴四川。特大的灾难深深激发了社工界的爱心,同时有力地激发了灾害社会工作的专业发展。也正因为如此,在本次云南鲁甸地震中依然可以看到之前社工介入的策略和路径。     

生态系统理论视角下智障人士康复的社会工作介入分析——以兰州市城关区慧灵智障人士服务中心为例

生态系统理论强调人的生存系统对于对于分析、理解人的问题的重要性,在社工实务领域社工应该对案主的各个系统进行干预。本文以兰州市城关区慧灵智障人士服务中心为例,从生态系统理论视角看待智障人士面临的主要问题:社会交往、就业问题及个人能力提升;以及在微观、中观、宏观三个层面分析社会工作的介入方法。     

试论企业社会工作的发展前景

本文首先立足社会工作和企业社会工作的基本定义,明确了企业社会工作的功能和工作领域。同时,结合深圳市工源社工服务社企业社会工作的实践,介绍了本服务社企业社会工作的经验和下一步工作计划。从而,证明企业社会工作不但＂可能＂,而且会在深圳发展得很好。     

针对家庭进行预估的方法

在社会工作服务项目中,越来越多的社工开始关注服务对象的家庭,认识到很多个人的问题其实源于家庭。而如何针对服务对象家庭开展有效的介入,首要的是基于对家庭进行系统科学的评估。     

安县红十字社工服务中心灾后服务纪实

2008年4月．南都基金会与中国社会工作协会组织专家对汶川地震灾区的社会工作服务组织情况进行了考察和调研,在此基础上组织实施了”社会工作服务组织试点工程“建设项目,首批从灾区起步,计划用2～3年的时间建设政府支持、专业教育介入、社会资源助力、本土化的、可持续发展的社会工式服民务组织。中国社工协会最终确定5家民办社工机构作为试点：安县红十字社工服务中心、资阳市社会工作服务中心、都江堰市上善社会工作服务中心、理县湘川情社会工作服务中心、大邑县巴地草社会工作服务中心。该试点项目得到了南都基金会的支持,每家机构获得20万元资助。在此,我们选取了安县红十字社工服务中心——第一家在灾区获得正式注册的社工机构为代表。     

“启梦青羊”深化成都市青羊区社会工作服务

2013年,四川省成都市青羊区启动了"启梦青羊"社会工作服务创投项目活动,全市具有一定社工专业背景的社工机构均可申报由政府资助的社会工作服务项目.这一活动得到社工机构的广泛支持和参与,活动期间共收集了30余个社会工作服务项目,项目内容涉及面广实用性高,并体现了原创性. 全面开展社会工作服务项目的原因 社会管理形态复杂,社区承接的行政职能任务越来越重,需要社会工作服务介入.     

Social workers in the new human services marketplace: Trends,challenges and responses

This paper examines employment trends in social welfare occupations and challenges to the industrial and cultural recognition of professional social work in the new human services market place. Following examination of the threats posed by market reform and the crisis in public confidence in some domains of human services work, I focus on three key concerns. First, through analysis of Census data from 1996 to 2001, I compare trends in the employment of social workers, welfare workers and community workers. Second, drawing on the work of Nancy Fraser (1997), I argue that the challenges facing social workers can be understood as problems of ‘recognition’. Using this framework, I examine the external contests to the valuing of professional social work and also the internal challenges, that is, threats from within the social work profession to the industrial and cultural recognition of social work. Finally, I will consider how social workers, particularly new graduates, can respond to the challenges facing them in the new human services marketplace. I propose that social workers should claim a position as practice leaders and I outline practical strategies for achieving this goal.     

Non‐job work/unpaid caring: Gendered industrial relations in long‐term care

This article explores the operation of gender and industrial relations in long‐term care work or nursing home work, ‘from within’ the experience of the predominantly female workforce in seven unionized facilities in Canada. Drawing on qualitative case study data in non‐profit facilities, the article argues that the main industrial relations challenges facing long‐term care workers are that their workplace priorities do not fit within existing, gendered, industrial relations processes and institutions. This article starts from the experience of women and threads this experience through other layers of social organization such as: global and local policy directions including austerity, New Public Management, and social and healthcare funding; industrial relations mechanisms and policy; and workers’ formal [union] and informal efforts to represent their interests in the workplace. The strongest themes in the reported experience of the women include: manufacturing conditions for unpaid work; increasing management and state dependence on unpaid care work; fostering loose boundaries; and limiting respect and autonomy as aspects of care work. The article extends the feminist political economy by analysing the links between the policies noted above and frontline care work. Building on gendered organizational theory the article also introduces the concept of non‐job work and suggests a fourth industrial relations institution, namely the needs and gendered expectations of residents, families and workers themselves, operating within the liminal spaces in care work.     

The “Three Waves” of Industrial Group Work: Historical Reflections on Current Research on Group Work

This paper deals with the three waves of the discourse on group work in social science and industrial practice that have helped pave the way for the current boom in the introduction of group work in companies. These waves are represented by the human relations approach, the sociotechnical systems approach, and the lean management debate. They are reviewed in two perspectives. The first relates to their concepts of work design and group work, following four questions: (a) What emphasis is put on work factors or on subjective orientations, on the design of working conditions or symbolic strategies? (b) How do the various approaches address the relationship between efficiency and control? (c) Which concepts of participation or democracy are involved? (d) How is the role of the social scientist in the process of industrial modernization conceptualized, explicitly or implicitly? The second perspective from a sociology of science relates to the context of production and utilization of social scientific knowledge. In general, two theses are put forward. The first states that a gap exists between the aspirations and reality of group work because the basic conflict of efficiency and control has been overlooked for ideological reasons. The second postulates that there is no linear progress in the theory and practice of group work. It seems that the socioeconomical context determines reasonably which group concept and ideology dominates certain historical phases of industrial modernization.     

Reflections on Competence and Ideology in Social Work Education

The American system of social services has been structured to fit the needs of a system of late industrial state welfare capitalism Much confusion about the goals of social work education springs from a lack of understanding about the nature of our social system and the changes that have resulted from the emergence of technology as a major social institution This paper explores the changes occurring in our society and discusses how a more harmonious balance might be struck in our educational program for social work by taking into account the impact of technology and its possibilities for social service     

Serving the U.S. Work Force: A New Constituency for Schools of Social Work

Almost 90 million working people and their families have great unsatisfied needs for services. They pay for most present and potential U.S. human service structures in at least seven ways. Working people constitute a great challenge and potential growth area for the profession and for schools of social work. Developments in present industrial social work and social work education are discussed in this paper. Specific new proposals are presented. These include suggestions for meeting urgent needs and opportunities during the economic crisis.     

Dirty work: cultural iconography and working‐class pride in industrial apprenticeships

In the seemingly routine and the everyday, lie layers of cultural and social symbolism. So it is with dirt. This article examines the social and cultural roles of dirt within socialization practices in working‐class industrial and ex‐industrial communities. Drawn from oral history accounts with 46 former and current engineering apprentices, the discussion demonstrates dirt as a concept and a practicality, and how the idea of ‘getting dirty’ provided a cultural imagery used to renegotiate moral boundaries that devalue working class, masculine experiences and identities. Building on from the work of Skeggs (1997, 2004, 2011), it demonstrates the lived experience of value within the industrial workplace past and present. Through dirt, the role of cultural artefacts and iconography within working‐class experience and workplace training is explored. Additionally, the role of a cultural icon like dirt in the intergenerational dialogues of workplace communities is given new attention. In doing so the article argues that while after decades of underinvestment in apprenticeships as a model for training in the UK, a recent resurgence in interest can go some way in overcoming the long‐term effects of the loss of large‐scale industrial work. However, the cultures of work attached to the apprenticeships of the past are, within deindustrialization, much more complicated to develop or recreate.     

Approaches to Social Work Field Placements in Industry

Knowledge of local industries, their characteristics, and their needs is the basis for developing potential field placement sites in industry. This article presents a variety of approaches for schools of social work in developing industrial field placements based on factors such as type of industry, workforce size, extent of existing industrial health and employee assistance efforts, and the national, regional, or local status of the industry.     

The Functionalist Perspective on Social Inequality: Some Neglected Theoretical and Conceptual Roots*

This paper outlines the origins of the functionalist perspective as it was used by American social scientists to explain social inequality during the first four decades of the twentieth century. The author then argues against the assumption that the basis for development of the perspective is found in the work of Parsons and his students who applied Parsons’general framework to studies of social inequality in complex industrial society. Instead, it is suggested that the research of social anthropologists, such as Robert and Helen Lynd and W. Lioyd Warner, was equally important to the development of the functionalist perspective. The author further argues that early twentieth-century British social anthropology, with its strong ties to Durkheimian functionalism, greatly influenced the direction of studies on social inequality. The paper concludes with a discussion of the intellectual ancestries between these theoretical pioneers and Parsonians and offers an explanation why Parsons’work dominated sociology during a critical period of the discipline's development.     

The post-seebohm depression

Abstract

The collective depression now afflicting social workers is attributed to profound frustration in all aspects of their work. Since Seebohm, social workers have been trapped in an industrial style management framework, which is utterly unsuited to their motivation and to the nature of their professional task. Meeting the needs of disturbed clients imposes severe stresses on social workers-even those whose own personality difficulties are no greater than average.     

Is a Critical Sociology Possible: Alvin Gouldner and the “Dark Side of the Dialectic”*

Alvin Gouldner's oeuvre is examined in terms of its confrontation with and critical appropriation of both empirical social research and Marxism. Traversing an enormous range of diverse topics-the sociology of knowledge; industrial sociology; problems of bureaucracy and democracy; studies in leadership; the role of intellectuals and ideologies; sociolinguistics; functionalism, Marxism, Stalinism, and anarchism; and studies of Plato, Saint-Simon, Marx, Weber, Durkheim, and Parsons-Gouldner's work retains a basic thematic focus. This work is neither a harmonious synthesis of these various topics nor does it remain totally consistent with any topic taken individually. Nonetheless there is a thematic continuity underlying the creative tensions and contradictions in his work. This continuity is identified as the classical political and historical mission of social theory; namely, the Enlightenment quest for rational discourse and the establishment of the social conditions for a truly humane society.