本土社会工作介入临终服务领域的两种路径

20世纪80年代以来临终服务事业逐渐进入国内学界和公众视野。社会工作作为专门助人专业,在介入和推动中国临终关怀服务事业中,医务社会工作者应发挥积极效用。同时,从本土社会工作视角介入当前临终服务领域的路径除了要关注临终关怀,还要发展死亡教育事业。对临终关怀的探讨,在本土语境中利于扩大社会工作专业的服务范围,对社会工作学科的发展也具有积极的建设性意义。     

Absent Role of the State: Analysis of Social Support to Older People with Disabilities in Rural China

China is experiencing rapid population ageing and already has 44 million older people with disabilities aged over 59 years. Yet social support of these older people with disabilities is undeveloped and not well researched. This article contributes by using a disability rights framework (right to life and protection, economic security and social support) to analyze local cases in rural China. It finds that, although the family is still the main provider of economic and care support to rural older people with disabilities, the absence of a state role in welfare provision has negative impacts on the well‐being of older and younger generations in rural families.     

Social Policy and Development in Latin America: The Long View

In the new development strategy currently shaping Latin America, alternative social policy models have emerged. This article argues that far from being rival alternatives, each of these models considers the wide differences among countries. The region is emerging from a century of transformation – from a traditional agrarian economy to an urban industrial one – in which countries have taken diverse historical paths. Some have almost completed this transformation, others are taking early steps, and the vast majority are living through it. State‐led transition has followed two successive development strategies. From the 1920s up to the 1980s, state developmentalism has mostly successfully assumed the twin challenges of economic and social progress. In the last two decades of the century, Latin American states adopted the policies of the Washington Consensus, which emphasized the importance of business in the framework of globalization and benefited the affluent few. However, an unambiguous shift in direction has been taking place in Latin America since the 1997 economic crisis. This article suggests that a new developmental welfare state model seems to be in the making. How will it evolve over the wider space of an increasingly integrated Latin America?     

新生代农民工城市融入的困境与出路——基于厦门市的调查

新生代农民工是中国现代产业工人的主体,是社会稳定与进步的重要影响因素。新生代农民工的文化程度相对较高,生活方式与老一代农民工有明显差别,他们的"城市梦"更执着。厦门是新生代农民工聚集的城市,在实证研究基础上,分析厦门新生代农民工当前面临的困境,以社会工作视角从宏观、中观和微观层面提出解决对策,以期更好地服务新生代农民工,团结新生代农民工,共同推进厦门市文明城市建设。     

It Is Expected by the Year 2000

Abstract

Authors in the Encyclopedia of Social Work (formerly the Social Work Year Book), beginning in the 1930s, have proffered forecasts to help social workers anticipate the composition and needs of the current cohort of older adults. First 1980 and later the year 2000 were often targeted in these forecasts. The purpose of this article is to analyze accuracy and utility of these earlier forecasts and to examine implications for social service professionals now attempting to make forecasts and develop practice and policy strategies for the 21st century when the baby boom cohort will become the elder boom.     

Regulation of Personal Social Services – The Israeli Experience

The current article explores the aspects of regulatory policy in the field of personal social services. In Israel, the government sets standards, and finances and oversees personal social services, while the services themselves are provided primarily by non‐governmental organizations. Based on a qualitative study we examined two questions. First, what characterizes the implementation of regulatory mechanisms in the field of personal social services in Israel? Second, how can we explain the outcomes of regulation in the personal social services in Israel? In a unique approach, we used the institutional analysis and development (IAD) framework to explore the regulatory practices implemented in community residences and hostels for people with intellectual disabilities and in after school programmes. The findings revealed that although there were implementation gaps in both cases, the IAD might improve our understanding of the nature and magnitude of these gaps. Furthermore, the insights gained may have implications for policymakers in their development of regulatory policy.     

社会政策视角下的流浪儿童救助保护

我国政府历来重视对流浪儿童的救助保护,也取得了相当的成绩,但该领域的政策体系尚存缺陷与不足,难以满足社会发展的需要。立足现实,从社会政策的视角,探究流浪儿童救助保护政策的现状,并提出有关对策建议,以期建立健全该领域的社会政策框架。     

医务社会工作者：他们的工作与专业训练

英美医务社会工作起源于医院社会工作,北京协和医院社会工作开创亚太地区和中国医院社会工作的先河。蒲爱德是中国医院社会工作服务模式的奠基人。她首次系统阐述开展医院社会工作的必要性、重要性和紧迫性,科学总结协和医院社会土作服务模式,明确提出医院社会工作者的配置原则、职责范围、服务方法和专业训练途径,为当代中国医院社会工作人才队伍建设提供宝贵历史经验,具有重要的现实意义、理论意义和政策意义。     

中国社会工作本土化教育模式探索

文章综合阐述了社会工作本土化的相关理论,分析了中国社会工作专业教育存在的问题：社会工作专业教育质量偏低;社会工作教育师资力量薄弱;社会工作专业教育中课程设置重理论轻实务;“拿来即用”现象依然存在,“本土化”特色不够。在此基础上提出了社会工作本土化教育模式的基本框架。     

论政府社会保障政策能力建设

我国目前的社会保障形势非常严峻,为此必须大力加强政府社会保障政策能力建设。政府社会保障政策能力是指政府科学制定社会保障政策和执行社会保障政策的能力。为了切实提高政府社会保障政策能力,我们必须完善政府的社会保障政策问题发现机制、社会保障政策民主参与机制、社会保障政策执行机制、社会保障政策评估机制、社会保障政策决策者责任追究机制和社会保障政策调整机制,等等。