Teaching and learning communication with children and young people: developing the qualifying social work curriculum in a changing policy context

Twenty years after survey evidence showed that UK social work students could complete their training without having learnt about or worked with children, new research suggests little has changed. There is still no guarantee that any student on qualification will have been taught about or assessed in communication skills with children and young people. This is despite the claim that the pre‐registration award provides teaching and assessment in core generic skills as a foundation for the development of specialist practice roles in agencies. In fact, as this paper shows, a common understanding of what counts as effective communication with children has yet to be consolidated in social work practice and research. This has impeded the process of curriculum development. Divergent expectations about what counts as social work communication with children in a changing policy context may be exacerbating long‐standing uncertainties about how genericism and specialism should be linked in professional education and training. In exploring these issues, this paper seeks to clear the way for the renewed effort that is now required if this aspect of curriculum development is to be effective.     

On “Being” and “Doing”: Supervising Clinical Social Workers in Case-Management Practice

As clinical social work has increasingly become synonymous with reflective psychotherapeutic intervention, case-management practice is often perceived as an impediment to the consolidation of a professional identity as a clinical social worker. The clinically oriented case manager is faced with the difficult challenge of addressing the inseparable psychological and environmental needs of clients while meeting the expectations of relevant agencies and institutions. In the supervisory process of case-management practice, clinical social workers have a unique opportunity to consolidate their professional identity as they directly address the dialectic between the individual's maturational processes and the larger facilitating environment. Using illustrations from supervisory relationships, this article discusses the specific challenges of clinical supervision in case-management practice.     

现阶段本土性社会工作之专业关系研究

社会工作助人实践中社会工作者和受助者之间的专业关系直接影响助人实践的成败。西方社会工作理论对专业关系有比较细致的研究和相对详尽的实务原则,现阶段的本土性社会工作则由于本土文化、专业发展阶段等因素的影响要求在实践中对专业关系的把握需要注意自身的特点。高度情感卷入、有条件的接纳、案主自决的适当介入和时间上的延展性构成现阶段本土社会工作实践专业关系的特点。社会工作者对这些特点的总结、理解和把握将推动社会工作事业的发展和制度化的建设。     

Homeless and financially dependent adolescents as clients of a family agency 1

A wide range of issues are explored that are identified by incarcerated mothers during their participation in a Family Reunification Group at a prison for women. They include concerns regarding parent–child visits; lack of communication by child welfare social workers, attorneys, foster parents, and other caregivers; the Adoption and Safe Families Act (ASFA); lack of finances; past and present unresolved trauma issues; and the absence of notification of scheduled court hearings. This article also provides an in-depth look at how a group therapist established a therapeutic alliance with varied women in the group over a period of 5 years (2008–2013) and maintained a sense of professional self in this controlled setting. Finally, the implications for clinical social work practice and social work education are presented. Confidentiality is ensured with the use of de-identified case composite clinical material.     

社会工作价值观的改进:一种中国文化的视角

社会工作是一个以价值为本的专业,社会工作价值观是专业培训和专业实践的重要内容,是从事专业实践的精神动力。社会工作的价值观根植于西方文化,其直接来源是个人主义、人道主义及理性主义。这些价值观来源有其合理之处,但也有偏颇。要使社会工作专业得到更好的发展,需要借鉴中国优秀的价值观念,改进社会工作的价值观系统。本文介绍了社会工作价值观的涵义,阐述了其思想来源,分析了其优缺点,并具体提出了通过吸纳中国优秀的文化因素,改进社会工作价值观体系的方法。     

社会工作价值观的改进:一种中国文化的视角

社会工作是一个以价值为本的专业,社会工作价值观是专业培训和专业实践的重要内容,是从事专业实践的精神动力。社会工作的价值观根植于西方文化,其直接来源是个人主义、人道主义及理性主义。这些价值观来源有其合理之处,但也有偏颇。要使社会工作专业得到更好的发展,需要借鉴中国优秀的价值观念,改进社会工作的价值观系统。本文介绍了社会工作价值观的涵义,阐述了其思想来源,分析了其优缺点,并具体提出了通过吸纳中国优秀的文化因素,改进社会工作价值观体系的方法。     

From communication to co‐operation: Reconceptualizing social workers' engagement with children

Communicating and engaging with children is a foundational component of child care social work practice, but all too frequently, in the wake of serious incidents, it is the focus of criticism. Drawing on findings from a large‐scale ESRC‐funded research project conducted in the four U.K. nations, this paper explores, through a psychosocial analytic lens, how social workers anticipate, enact and reflect on their encounters with both children and their families. Close analysis of what social workers said about their practice alongside what they were observed to do in practice revealed perceptions, patterns and processes of communication that, first, minimize emotions and the complexity of the professional task and second, overly privilege verbal interaction. Drawing on Sennett's (2012) ideas this paper offers a reconceptualisation of this professional task, from a communicative to a co‐operative one. It affords and creates a space in which social workers can develop more attuned communicative practices that include rituals, gestures and the minimal use of force. The theoretical insights and evidence‐informed practice recommendations arising from this research have conceptual significance for the social work discipline and practical significance for the child care social work profession, across national and international contexts.     

服务学习型教学模式在社会工作专业中的运用

起源于西方的服务学习模式日益受到了我国高校教育的重视。社会工作作为一个实务性强的专业,在专业发展中注重实践,对理论的本土化发展不断进行探索。本文探讨服务学习教学模式在社会工作专业中的运用的理论和现实背景;描述服务学习教育模式的定义和特征,总结服务学习与社会工作专业教学的契合点;探讨服务学习在社会工作专业教学中的积极意义和对于专业成长的促进作用,讨论服务学习型教学模式的运用问题和初步构想。     

社会工作专业教育课程设计模式的人文主义取向

社会工作专业教育课程设计模式的讨论与探索对于本土化社会工作专业人才的培养规格相当重要。尽管在西方社会工作专业教育发展的历程中出现过很多有特色的模式,但专业本身的性质决定了社会工作教育课程设计模式必须更多的强调实践与反思。本文认为人文主义取向是建构当下适合中国本土化和符合社会工作专业人才培养目标教育模式必须要考虑的主要因素。     

改革开放30年以来中国医务社会工作的历史回顾、现状与前瞻

(接2012年第5期)五、中国社会福利时代与医务社会工作发展前景2010年是中国社会政策、社会立法、社会管理、社会服务、社会建设与社会福利元年,标志中国总体性社会福利制度,包括国家福利、儿童福利、家庭福利、妇女福利、残障福利、老年人福利、军人福利、社区福利和社会化福利时代来临,以改善民生为重点的社会建设和中国特色社会福利制     

On the Link between Academia and the Practice of Social Work

The dualism of knowledge and values as well as of the objective and the subjective views has accompanied the social work profession from its inception and presents a particular dilemma for the link between academia and practice. It is either that academia is split off from the practice of social work, or that these two fields of professional activity merge into each other. Either of these solutions impoverishes the profession. The key for the understanding of this dilemma as well as its resolution rests with the particular ontological definitions adhered to by the profession. It is proposed that by fostering the moral ontology the dualism inherent in the nature of the profession may enrich it and a fruitful link between academia and the practice of social work will evolve. The arguments presented as well as the resolution proposed are illustrated by theoretical explanations, empirical studies and clinical practice in the area of the parent-infant relationship.     

国内社会工作专业实践教学引入服务学习的思考

目前国内社会工作专业实践教学面临着独特的本土化处境,在国外及我国港台地区适用的社会工作专业学生到社会工作专业机构参加实践的教学模式在国内基本上无法照搬使用。由于我国社会工作的发展属教育先导型,国内社会工作实践教学与服务学习具有高度的契合性,可引入服务学习,增强实践教学实效,为此需要创造相应的条件。     

社会工作实践教学探索

社会工作是实践取向的教育,社会工作的专业品质需要实践性的教学,长沙民政职业技术学院社会工作系,经过7年的探索,从教学理念、课程实践、隐性课程实践、认知实践、综合实习、农村社会工作、教学方法改革等等进行了探索,形成了自己的一些经验和体制保障。     

The role of law in welfare reform: critical perspectives on the relationship between law and social work practice

This article considers the complex relationships between law, welfare policy and social work practice, in order to address the question of what role legal frameworks might play in achieving welfare policy and professional practice goals. It traces how law has developed as a core component of professional practice, and challenges some of the false expectations placed upon it. It then draws on findings from an international knowledge review of law teaching in social work education to propose a model for understanding how professional practice incorporates legal perspectives, and proposes ways in which legal frameworks can provide positive and constructive vehicles for accountable practice.     

国内社会工作专业实践教学引入服务学习的思考

目前国内社会工作专业实践教学面临着独特的本土化处境,在国外及我国港台地区适用的社会工作专业学生到社会工作专业机构参加实践的教学模式在国内基本上无法照搬使用。由于我国社会工作的发展属教育先导型,国内社会工作实践教学与服务学习具有高度的契合性,可引入服务学习,增强实践教学实效,为此需要创造相应的条件。     

Evaluating a Scale to Measure Student Competencies in Macro Social Work Practice

ABSTRACT

This article outlines the development of an evaluation tool for measuring student competency in macrolevel social work practice. Researchers followed a multistage process that incorporated the wisdom of experienced field instructors in identifying key competencies for practice, ranking performance levels in each competency, and evaluating the reliability and validity of the scale. The resulting Macro Practice-Based Evaluation tool includes six skill domains (learning and growth; behavior and relationships; leadership; critical thinking, analysis, planning, and implementation; professional communication; and values and ethics), each of which has five levels of student competence ranging from unsuitable for practice to exemplary. Evaluation in an experimental setting, by comparing student evaluations on the new tool and previous tools, demonstrated promising reliability and validity. Implications for social work education and future research in actual practice environments are discussed.     

Clinical Case Management

Case management is a vital service in gerontological social work-perhaps the most essential service. Extreme variation in the definition and implementation has detracted from the core functions of case management. When these functions are placed in a clinical context, case management becomes the treatment of choice for many frail elderly and their families. There have been many forces operating against the development of professional case management, yet gerontological social work must take the lead in clinical case management practice. Social work educators must play a key role in preparing social workers for case management and promoting this treatment model as the hallmark of gerontological social work.     

对社会工作专业实习教育的几点思考

社会工作专业实习教育是社会工作教育的重要环节,事关学生专业价值观的培养、专业知识与技巧的内化、专业能力的提升等重大问题。本文结合自身开展社会工作专业实习的一些体验和反思,就社会工作专业实习教育提几点思考。     

选择专业性机构开展社工实习的成果探讨——基于N学院的实证研究

要解决目前社工实习中专业实习机构匮乏的困境,正确定位那些带有社会工作专业性质的机构是一个必然的选择。定位的标准可以参照机构的服务对象、价值伦理是否与社会工作的相关因素一致或者接近,N学院的社会工作专业实习正是基于这一标准选择机构。利用自行设计的问卷对2006级90名实习生的调查表明,这种做法对实习生专业素质的培养和提高起到了良好的促进作用。     

实用专业主义:广州市家庭综合服务中心社会工作者“专业能力”的界定及其逻辑

本研究的目的是找出中国社会工作者专业能力体系及其背后的判定逻辑。本研究运用“模糊德尔菲法”的设计,让广东省高校教育界和实务界的专家参考英格兰、美国和中国香港地区的专业能力,选择其中他们认为对广州市家庭综合服务中心社会工作者重要的指标。结果显示,共有价值伦理、理论知识和实务技巧等3个层面,合计24项能力指标被纳入本地的能力体系。经过分析这些专家判定逻辑,本研究还发现该能力体系存在“实用专业主义”的倾向,包括“犬儒思想”“去政治化”和“技术化”等特征。