Pub Date : 2023-01-02DOI: 10.1080/17525098.2023.2177374
Chitat Chan
Narrative Practice (NP; also called Narrative Therapy) seeks to help clients author a new narrative about themselves by investigating the history of their values. Somewhat of an “archaeological journey” for opening up a preferred future, NP has its roots in Western countries during the 1980s and has been popularised in different cultures. While NP has reported a significant impact in the West, the academic literature has not clearly suggested in what ways it has been contextualised in non-English speaking regions. This special issue aims to collect articles reporting applications and adaptations of NP in Chinese contexts, which broadly cover practices in Mainland China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Macau and among any Chinese populations across the globe. In addition, we see that applying a theory is more than a linear deductive process, particularly when it comes to any applications in Chinese contexts. There are numerous examples showing how foreign theories have ended up in their unique Chinese versions – what happened to capitalism and Marxism in China may be a typical exemplification. As such, applying a theory in Chinese contexts is very often a dialogue resulting in coevolutions. In this special issue of the China Journal of Social Work, we witness such intriguing and innovative developments. 1. Are those diverse narrative practices sharing the same essence? Some authors have paid attention to the diversity of NPs and have tried to unpack their differences and commonality. C. Y. Lau, T. M. Simon Chan, H. W. Christina Yu, and H. P. Catherine Wu explored stories from local practitioners and scholars on the development of narrative practice in Hong Kong over the past two decades. One of the key themes in their discussion addresses why multidisciplinary collaborations and diverse practice models have emerged in Hong Kong. They conclude that although there are different practices, they share the same vision – seeing that many problems are socially constructed – and NPs help separate people from their problems. Hoyee Au-Yeung has addressed such diversity from another angle, asking how we can ensure implementation fidelity based on specific premises. Implementation fidelity refers to how well the interventions or treatments are delivered as planned. Using a tagging tool derived from the concept of scaffolding, Au-Yeung offers an illustrative case study that visualises NP-based conversation and demonstrates that it is possible to verify to what extent a conversation aligns with NP’s principles. 2. Can narrative practice inform research methods? Some authors, such as P. F. Chuang from Taiwan, have illustrated how insights and techniques in NP can inform research methods. In a reflection paper reporting a study about a couple, Chuang sought to enable the couple to identify unique outcomes in their relationships and attempted to understand the connection between gay men and the stigma of AIDS. Similarly, S. W. Chung and Hoyee Au-Yeung from Hong Kong adopted qu
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ABSTRACT Women with breast cancer in China must exert considerable effort to resist stigma and the impact of treatment side effects. They suffer not only the overwhelming consequences of bodily disfigurement but also gender stigmatisation, with adverse impacts on their mental and sexual health. Research from Western countries indicates that most women with cancer report some “beneficial” consequences of their breast cancer experience. In the mindfulness-based narrative therapy (MBNT) project reported in this article, researchers collaborated with health professionals and female patients from a breast cancer hospital in Mainland China to develop an intervention approach. This article aims to demonstrate how social workers adopted MBNT for a self-help group for Chinese women with breast cancer to enable the women to discover the “gain” of “illness”, which provides a source of power to combat self-stigmatisation.
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Pub Date : 2022-11-11DOI: 10.1080/17525098.2022.2126868
Pei-Fen Chuang
ABSTRACT This study was conducted upon the request of a serodiscordant couple to write an article to provide narrative materials for gender equality and acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) destigmatisation. This study sought to enable serodiscordant couples to identify unique outcomes in their relationships, and attempted to understand the connection between gay men and the stigma of AIDS. The researcher employed narrative therapy conversation externalisation and relative-influence questions to identify unique outcomes for this couple, and gained three insights through the conversations. (1) An overemphasis on unique imagination may not lead to unique outcomes; (2) therapists should focus on the problems mainstream society imposes on nonmainstream narratives; and (3) narrative therapy emphasises context, which enabled the researcher to better understand herself. The results of this study indicate that serodiscordant couples should be regarded as a unit. With narrative therapy, the couple had the opportunity to develop a coconstructed alternative story.
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Pub Date : 2022-10-04DOI: 10.1080/17525098.2022.2121298
Xiaoran Wang, W. Kung
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Pub Date : 2022-09-27DOI: 10.1080/17525098.2022.2123762
Chitat Chan
ABSTRACT Narrative Practice (NP) seeks to help clients author a new narrative about themselves by investigating the history of their values; it is a journey from reflective explorations to preferred identity expressions. This article is an autoethnographic study of a narrative practitioner’s experience throughout the past decade. The study identified how the practice has adopted technology and how technology has, in turn, shaped the practice. It unearthed four potential technique extension domains: i) setting contexts, ii) utilising communication modalities, iii) designing data capture and comprehension methods, and iv) circulating preferred narratives. The conclusion section discusses implications for further development.
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Pub Date : 2022-09-21DOI: 10.1080/17525098.2022.2121738
Fengyan Tang, Ke Li, Heejung Jang
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Pub Date : 2022-09-02DOI: 10.1080/17525098.2022.2140926
Sibin Wang
While both practice and research in the realm of social work across the world are constantly developing, social work practice research has achieved remarkable progress due to its innovative approaches integrating of practice and research. Inspired by the increased need for effective social work research to address the dynamic and complex practice in China, Peking University-The Hong Kong Polytechnic University China Social Work Research Centre has been committed to developing and promoting of social work practice research in recent years. The centre has already organised several international seminars on practice research and developed a series of pertinent training programmes, which have significantly advanced practice research, particularly action research in the context of China. In November 2021, an international conference entitled “Dialogue: International Conference on Social Work Practice Research” was jointly held by the centre, the Department of Sociology of Peking University and the Department of Applied Social Sciences of the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. A group of leading scholars who had greatly contributed to the development of social work practice research were invited to attend the conference and share their new ideas and the latest research in the field. The conference gained great success, and some speakers were invited to write their reports and publish in the China Journal of Social Work. The theme of this special issue is “Social work practice research: philosophy, ethic and practices”, which contains seven articles based on the invited talks given at the conference. The first article by Irwin Epstein was mainly inspired by the work of Greek philosopher Alexander Nehamas and conceptualised the relationship between practice and research in social work as a “virtue friendship”. It claimed that practice and research in social work did not just mutually benefit each other but also engaged together in cultivating “virtue friendship” between them. Irwin Epstein recommended that Cicero’s ever-relevant question “Cui Bono?” should be asked to evaluate the contributions of practice research to social work practice and policy. He particularly advocated using clinical data mining as an important approach to practice research in social work. It is always enlightening to see practice research in social work as a “virtue friendship”. In the second article, Martin Webber emphasised the significance of methodological pluralism in social work practice research. He used an intervention model entitled “Connecting People” as an example to illustrate the necessity of employing multiple methods to develop and evaluate social interventions. The article introduced the application of Connecting People in England and indicated that the development of the model started with a thorough understanding of the need for the intervention. To be specific, Connecting People was developed from an ethnography of social work practice and then piloted in quasi-
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Pub Date : 2022-08-29DOI: 10.1080/17525098.2022.2114137
M. Webber
ABSTRACT Methodological pluralism is required in social work practice research to enable researchers to answer diverse practice-based questions. This is particularly the case for developing and evaluating interventions for use by social workers in multiple contexts. This paper illustrates the multiple methods required to develop and evaluate social interventions, using the example of Connecting People. The intervention model was developed from an ethnography of social work practice and piloted in a quasi-experimental study. Focus groups and semi-structured interviews were used alongside a further quasi-experimental study to examine its implementation in one particular practice setting. A randomised controlled trial is currently underway to evaluate the effectiveness of the model in another country. Practice researchers need to develop expertise in multiple methods to respond flexibly to the demands of intervention development and evaluation in social work practice research.
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Pub Date : 2022-08-26DOI: 10.1080/17525098.2022.2109809
I-Hsuan Lin
{"title":"Social work theory and practice","authors":"I-Hsuan Lin","doi":"10.1080/17525098.2022.2109809","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17525098.2022.2109809","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":38938,"journal":{"name":"China Journal of Social Work","volume":"50 1","pages":"324 - 326"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-08-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84864600","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-08-17DOI: 10.1080/17525098.2022.2107142
L. Dominelli
ABSTRACT Identity, a socially constructed concept, makes sense of who we are, and how we relate to others and define our places in the world, including the physical environment. Identity formation and maintenance are complex, transactional relationships negotiated through interpersonal interactions and constantly adapting to the people we meet. Identity is culturally specific and changes through exchanges between and across cultures. Identity formation is fluid, dynamic, and reproduced through interaction with others. Identity is negotiated through power relations to create feelings of “belonging” and acceptance in specific situations and locales. Being accepted as belonging establishes an individual’s and community’s entitlement to human rights in society through social inclusion and exclusion processes. Working with those who do not “belong”, social workers aware of the impact of the social construction of identity should treat people with respect and dignity and provide necessary services.
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