石家庄市社会(儿童)福利院:育才益智 让折翼天使更好地翱翔

石家庄市社会(儿童)福利院在残疾人的管理中,融入新型残疾人观,采取多种措施促进残疾人充分地参与和融人社会。对于残障和智障严重、无法走出福利院的,根据个性化需求,通过开设青春课堂、个别辅导、社工介入、志愿者服务等方式培养他们的才能,并提供展示自我的机会,丰富其精神文化生活;对于残障和智障程度低,有可能融人社会的,则送他们到不同的学校接受教育,学得一技之长,并给他们提供就业机会;对于到了婚嫁年龄的,则     

平视——让我们用心灵对接

怎样使流浪儿童回归主流社会,融入到正常儿童群体中,是从事流浪儿童救助工作者迫切需要探索的课题。作为给予他们提供服务和支持的工作人员,如果我们通过正确社工理念、社工理论和社工方法的引导,     

英国儿童护理员制度及启示

儿童护理员（Child Minder）是英国的儿童福利工作中具有鲜明特色的一项职业。这些护理员以自己的家庭为工作环境,为社区内的儿童提供临时看护或日间托管服务。英国政府则对其进行统一的注册管理,并由行业协会、专业社工组织等开展定期督导和检查,形成政府、社会组织、职业护理员三方协作的工作格局。当中国的家长为寒暑假孩子无法妥善安置而烦恼、     

农村留守儿童现状及引入社工服务的必要性——基于苏北农村学龄儿童的对比研究

调查发现小学阶段的农村留守儿童与非留守儿童在日常生活的主动性、学习动机与自我评价方面没有差异,留守儿童在孤独感、日常交往、情绪稳定等方面的测量指标与非留守儿童存在差异。农村留守儿童成长中面临的诸多问题其实是大部分农村儿童面临的共同问题。应对这样的问题需要在农村义务教育中引入社会工作服务,设置专门的学校社工岗位,聘请专业的社会工作者为农村儿童、学校老师、监护人及家长提供服务。     

东西方社工倾情打造《社工启航》

前不久，由深圳市东西方社工服务社与香港家庭福利会联合编著的社工活动实务手册《社工启航》开始面向全社会首发。该书包括社区社工活动手册和学校社工活动手册两本。社区社工活动手册面向社区服务领域的社工，以及想了解社区服务需求的人士。手册按照活动对象分为儿童篇、青少年篇、家长篇、     

培训骨干家长促进儿童保护——云南盈江县家长骨干培训总结纪实

中国儿童福利示范项目的儿童福利主任扎根基层,定期家访,既能了解儿童的各类需求并为其提供服务和协助,又能掌握家长在育儿方面的困惑和缺失.因此,他们是传播育儿理念的最佳人选. 云南省德宏州盈江县抓住了儿童福利主任深入基层的特点,通过培训促进儿童福利主任掌握了基本育儿知识,亲子沟通方法和青春期儿童教育等内容.     

孤残儿童社会工作中的督导本土化实践--以院舍社工服务为例

随着我国社会工作实务领域的丰富和服务的不断发展,社会工作督导本土经验的呈现和探索对提升社会工作服务质量以及发展本土社会工作服务具有非常重要的意义。孤残儿童社会工作依赖福利院社工的能力、知识和技巧,为服务对象提供高素质的服务,而社会工作督导为院内社会工作人才培育和服务发展提供保障。院舍处境下的社会工作督导需要满足院方、社工、孤残儿童三方不同需求,督导的过程和功能因被督导者专业知识和能力限制、服务对象的特殊性和工作场所的特定性需要新的解读。     

构建困境儿童社会支持系统

儿童发展不是孤立或独立完成的,而是在社会不同系统中以及个体与不同系统的相互作用中实现的.民政部最近发布《儿童社会工作服务指南》,提到儿童社会工作服务的生态系统原则,即社工要从儿童自身及其与家庭、朋辈群体、社区、学校、服务机构等互动关系中分析儿童的问题,识别所需资源,提供专业服务.     

社工介入培养孤儿健康人格

立足于孤残儿童的心理特点和成长需求，深化社工理念，提升以儿童为本的组织文化内涵。加强行政推动，进行岗位开发，将社工工作内容、考核指标纳入全院的质量管理体系。倡导专业合作，形成社工与照料、医护、康复、教育等专业的良性互动。探索社工实务，提高了特殊教育、家庭寄养、社会融合等领域的专业化技术含量。多年的社工专业化之路，为培养孤残儿童人格健全，较好的与社会融合进行了本土化探索。     

潍坊市社会福利院：全方位开展社会工作

始建于1952年的山东潍坊市社会福利院，是唯一市级社会福利院。收养人员386名，其中孤残儿童198名、孤寡老人70名和成人智障人员108名。自2007年5月，福利院在全院开展学习社工知识，为国内外义工及青年自愿者搭建平台，积极探索“社工”“义工”联运机制，将专业社工理念、专业社工知识与技能渗透到全院的各项工作。     

Social Support for Mothers of Children With Disabilities in China

ABSTRACT.

This article analyzes the gendered parenting experiences of mothers of children with disabilities in China. These mothers struggle to meet their children's needs, including daily care, financial security, and child development. In the context of China's social welfare development, are social services responding to their needs, so that mothers can share responsibility for the needs of their children with disabilities? The research analyzed qualitative data about 6 case-study children in rural and urban China. The data were derived from observation and interviews with their parents and other family and community members. The analysis revealed that the capacity of the mother, community, and local social services had an impact on the rights of the children and mothers. They experienced social discrimination, insufficient social support, and local failure to implement central policy social services and income support. These findings are consistent with international research about disability rights. They reinforce the importance of economic redistribution to enable local implementation of the national disability rights policies, rather than merely relying on ephemeral concepts of cultural change. Further research about the comparative impact of economic and social change in China on mothers and children with disabilities would extend these findings.     

Chinese American Family Caregivers’ Perception of Program Use and Caregiver Stress

Caregiver programs provide specialized services and resources to reduce caregiver stress and improve family quality of life and health. Although there are resources and community services available, Chinese American family caregivers’ perceptions on caregiver programs and how specific services help to viably reduce their stress has yet to be examined. An in-depth interview was conducted with four Chinese American family caregivers in exploring their caregiving experiences and program service use; two of the caregivers were spouses and two were adult children. Content analysis revealed that their value of familial piety, and their need to ameliorate caregiver stress fueled their interest in new interventions to improve their quality of life and health. Spousal caregivers and adult children caregivers disclosed different needs due to caregiving, and adult children caregivers were less resistant to new interventions. The results of this study fill the knowledge gap on Chinese American family caregivers’ perception of caregiving in a cultural context as well as their needs. Suggestions for future research are to better understand the effectiveness of the specific services within caregiver programs that are effective in reducing caregiver stress among Chinese American family caregivers.     

Mental health and educational difficulties in children in contact with Children's Social Services

The British Child Mental Health Survey 1999 collected data from 10 438 children aged 5–15 years, selected at random from the child benefit register. At 2 and 3 years, all those with a psychiatric disorder and a random third without were followed up with further detailed interviews about the services contacted if parents reported service contact or if parents expressed concern about their child's mental health at baseline and follow‐up, but reported no service use. We compared children in contact with Children's Social Services with children in contact with Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS) or no services. The children in contact with Children's Social Services had a high level of psychopathology and considerable educational difficulties. Despite this, they often had no contact with CAMHS or access to provision for special educational needs. It also became clear that parents were often using Children's Social Services as a first‐line service, i.e. a way of trying to access help. The results provide us with an interesting insight into the level of need of those children in contact with Children's Social Services and we hope to stimulate discussion about how liaison between all the services children access can better provide for their needs.     

The proof of the pudding: What difference does multi‐agency working make to families with disabled children with complex health care needs?

More than 20 years of research with disabled children, young people and their families has highlighted the need for the different professionals and services that support them to work more closely together. The British policy and legal framework for ‘joined up working’ has never been stronger. However, there has been an assumption that multi‐ or inter‐agency working will inevitably be a ‘good thing’ for families. This paper discusses findings from a 3‐year research project which looked at both the process and impact of multi‐agency working on families with a disabled child with complex health care needs. Interviews with 25 parents and 18 children and young people who used six developed, multi‐agency services were carried out. Findings suggested that the services had made a big difference to the health care needs of disabled children but were less able to meet the wider needs of the child and the family – particularly in relation to social and emotional needs. Multi‐agency working appeared to make some positive, but not significant, differences to the lives of families.     

需求与回应:一项关于流动儿童适应的再研究

人类有潜能帮助其自动地调适以寻求与环境的平衡,但人类的天赋与环境资源供给的相互作用才是增进人类适应的最终因素。流动儿童在与环境的互动中,资源供给欠缺,影响其适应。为了回应流动儿童的需求,需要从环境层面输入资源,培养其积极的自我认知与情绪体验,帮助其适应以寻求与环境的平衡。由于城乡间的差异给流动儿童带来的不适应、断裂及社会排斥,持续性的多系统整合介入是帮助流动儿童适应的重要因素。     

INTERGENERATIONAL FAMILY LITERACY: WORKING TOGETHER

This paper brings intergenerational family literacy programs to the attention of both an education and a social welfare readership. It describes how they benefit both children of parents with unmet literacy needs and the parents themselves. The paper presents results, from a Department of Employment. Education and Training national study, which show an important overlap between adult literacy teachers and family support workers in their interests in their clients, and argues for the need for cross-sectoral cooperation. Australian examples of such cooperation are provided and a scheme is proposed linking a number of government agencies to provide intergenerational family literacy programs offering a suite of needed services.     

Finding a routine that works: A mixed methods study of foster parents

Although it is well established that daily routines are important for family well‐being, very little research has been done on how foster parents establish and integrate new foster children into family routines. We used a mixed‐methods, cross‐sectional design, focused on qualitative results to explore how foster parents utilize routines. Twenty‐three foster parents were recruited from a private child welfare agency in a large city in the United States. Surveys were administered to obtain demographic information, overall home atmosphere, and the importance and prevalence of different routines, including mealtimes and sleep schedules. Nine foster parents received a semistructured interview with open‐ended questions. Foster parents reported that routines such as bedtimes, mealtimes, chores, and homework were essential to family well‐being. Because both parents and children had to adjust to living together in an intimate family environment, it was important to establish routines quickly. Foster parents modified routines depending on their child's needs. Along with typical family routines, foster parents reported additional tasks, such as visits with biological parents, meetings with caseworkers, and trainings that affected their family schedule. Results imply that training foster care workers and foster parents about routines can engender stability and emotional belonging for children.     

Schizophrenia: The Impact of Parental Illness on Children

This research sets out to discover what impact parental schizophreniamakes on a child’s life. It focuses on the daily lifeand experiences of children. Their health, education, familyand leisure activities are examined. Contact with helping agenciesand their unmet needs are investigated. The sample was drawnfrom the children of patients attending the mental health servicesin South West Dublin. They were matched with a control groupof children of well parents. The majority of children who haveone parent with schizophrenia had similar profiles to the childrenof well parents in the areas of physical health, positive familyfeelings, friendships, hobbies and household tasks. In a numberof other areas, however, differences were found. Sample childrenhad more psychiatric disturbance, more problems associated withschool, less contact with relatives and spent more time at home.The children had little access to services and were upset byhospital visiting. The need for an educational programme andsupport for these children was demonstrated. It is recommendedthat a more co-ordinated approach is required by both adultand child mental health services in order to meet their needs.     

Research Review: The role of grandparents in intergenerational support for families with disabled children: a review of the literature

The family in late modernity faces demographic change. However, it is still apparent that intergenerational relationships and exchanges of resources are valued. There is a growing literature on the important role that grandparents play in their children’s families. In contrast, there is limited research exploring the support grandparents provide to families with disabled children. This is an important gap in our knowledge, as families with disabled children frequently face additional caring responsibilities and emotional demands. From the studies that do exist, it is clear that grandparents’ support to families with disabled children is generally valued. However, the literature remains partial: past studies are small‐scale, focused upon parents’ perceptions of support (especially mother’s), and frequently based upon North American data. Recognizing these limitations and the fact that grandparents themselves have support needs which require consideration, this paper identifies key areas where important issues remain unanswered and further research is required. It argues that research is needed to begin untangling the different support needs of parents, grandparents and other family members, and the different effects of grandparent support that different family members’ experience. Exploration of grandparents’ own support needs also indicates the need for wider policy and service consideration.     

Challenges facing foster parent resource workers in Canada

Many different professional staff members in children's services systems interact with foster parents. In Canada, the title “resource worker” is used in many jurisdictions for those who work most directly and closely with licensed foster parents. There is, however, limited research on the experiences of resource workers. In the study, 68 resource workers from 14 agencies within a large metropolitan area in Canada were asked: “What challenges do you face as a foster parent resource worker?” The results were analyzed using concept mapping methodology and resulted in nine concepts: balance diverse stakeholder needs, motivate foster parents, manage dual roles, respond to foster parent misconduct, deal with disagreements, maintain credibility, meet demands of organization, stay up to date on changes, and lack of support. The results were compared and contrasted with the available literature.