Pub Date : 2021-05-04DOI: 10.1080/17525098.2021.1950756
H. Ku, Chitat Chan, J. Li
The COVID-19 pandemic has imposed a devastating impact on a global scale. Its impact has been not only on the health of citizens but also on different aspects of our living. In Hong Kong, we could see lessons were conducted over Zoom, New Year greetings were sent via WhatsApp and Wechat, and children had their lessons in one corner of the apartment while parents needed to work from home in another corner. In social work settings, these turbulences have affected our everyday lives, our service users, and our frontline practices. The Chinese word for “crisis” consists of two Chinese characters, one signifies “danger”, and the other signifies “opportunity”. In Chinese societies, we also have social work practitioners seeing this crisis as an opportunity for exploring new strategies and social changes. It cannot be denied that the pandemic has brought us disruption, uncertainty and hardships, especially impact on the marginalised groups. However, it has also generated our creativity, stimulated our imagination and enhanced our resilience. Social Work, as a helping profession in Western societies, has a long history of dealing with disaster and natural hazard. It has been well recorded that social work is effective in serving the vulnerable population in disaster-affected communities in terms of traumatic stress management, resources delivery, service planning, community rebuilding and policy advocacy (Galambos 2005; Mitchell 1983; van den Eynde and Veno 1999; Zakours 1996; Banerjee and Gillespie 1994; Dodds and Nuehring 1996; Pyles 2007). As Yanay and Benjamin (2005, 263 and 271) rightly concluded, responding to disasters is “part of social work practice and profession” and “social workers are the professionals best prepared to deal with complex situations resulting from an emergency”. Even in the Chinese mainland, social work as a young profession has accumulated certain experience in disaster intervention and management since Wenchuan earthquake on 12 May 2008 (e.g. Sim 2009; Pei, Zhang, and Ku 2009; Ting and Chen 2012; Ku and Ma 2015; Ku and Dominelli 2018). When the COVID-19 pandemic broke out at the end of 2019, the social work profession in Chinese societies has been more ready for working with the pandemic-affected communities and population and has created different strategies to overcome the negative impact of the pandemic. This special issue is to document the works of social work teaching and practice in Chinese societies in responding to pandemic lockdown. This special issue begins with Ma’s and Lyu’s article that discusses the role of social work based on the China national report on the COVID-19 pandemic. They reviewed the overall situation of the COVID-19 pandemic in Mainland China, studied the measures and regulations implemented by the state and discussed the roles of social workers. The findings showed that innovative online services helped practitioners continue their services and helped educators continue their teaching. CHINA JOU
新冠肺炎疫情在全球范围内造成了毁灭性影响。它不仅影响到公民的健康，而且影响到我们生活的各个方面。在香港，我们可以看到上课是通过Zoom进行的，新年祝福是通过WhatsApp和微信发送的，孩子们在公寓的一个角落上课，而父母需要在另一个角落在家工作。在社会工作环境中，这些动荡影响了我们的日常生活、服务对象和一线实践。“危机”一词由两个汉字组成，一个表示“危险”，另一个表示“机会”。在中国社会，我们也有社会工作者将这场危机视为探索新战略和社会变革的机会。不可否认，这一流行病给我们带来了混乱、不确定性和困难，特别是对边缘群体的影响。然而，它也激发了我们的创造力，激发了我们的想象力，增强了我们的适应力。社会工作作为西方社会的一种帮助职业，在处理灾害和自然灾害方面有着悠久的历史。有充分的记录表明，社会工作在创伤压力管理、资源提供、服务规划、社区重建和政策宣传等方面有效地服务于受灾害影响社区的弱势群体(Galambos 2005;米切尔1983;van den Eynde and Veno 1999;Zakours 1996;Banerjee and Gillespie 1994;Dodds and Nuehring 1996;帕勒斯2007年)。正如Yanay和Benjamin(2005, 263和271)正确地得出的结论，应对灾难是“社会工作实践和专业的一部分”，“社会工作者是应对紧急情况导致的复杂情况的最充分准备的专业人员”。即使在中国大陆，自2008年5月12日汶川地震以来，社会工作作为一个年轻的职业，也积累了一定的灾害干预和管理经验(如Sim 2009;裴、张、顾2009;陈婷2012;Ku and Ma 2015;Ku and Dominelli 2018)。2019年底新冠肺炎疫情爆发后，中国社会的社会工作专业已经做好了与受疫情影响的社区和人群合作的准备，并制定了不同的策略来克服疫情的负面影响。本期特刊记录了中国社会应对疫情封锁的社会工作教学和实践工作。本期特刊从马和吕的文章开始，以中国新冠肺炎疫情国家报告为背景，探讨社会工作的作用。他们回顾了中国大陆新冠肺炎疫情的总体形势，研究了国家实施的措施和规定，并讨论了社会工作者的作用。研究结果表明，创新的在线服务帮助从业者继续他们的服务，帮助教育者继续他们的教学。中国社会工作学报2021年第14卷第2期2,77 - 79 https://doi.org/10.1080/17525098.2021.1950756
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Pub Date : 2021-05-04DOI: 10.1080/17525098.2021.1932542
Renxing Chen, Yu Bao, Zhiwei Li
ABSTRACT COVID-19 affects the physiology and significantly impacts the psychology and emotions of young people. In response to continuous home quarantine, young people suffer from cabin fever due to long-term exposure to negative emotions, such as fear and anxiety. This study adopted qualitative research methods and followed an interpretive analysis paradigm to conduct semi-structured in-depth interviews with 12 young people suffering from cabin fever. The study found that vicarious trauma, nihilism, severe procrastination, confusion, helplessness, depression, compulsion, anxiety, and irritability were the primary manifestations of cabin fever in the young people. Based on the environment-individual interaction model (EIIM) of the cultivation of resilience, and highlighting the dimensions of acceptance and coexistence, coexistence and trust, stability and empathy, mindfulness and self-control, and self-discipline and adaptation, this paper proposes a specific method for young people’s adaptation to cabin fever.
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Pub Date : 2021-04-20DOI: 10.1080/17525098.2021.1905170
Wen Xu, X. Yuan, M. Cheung, Yu-Ju Huang
ABSTRACT This study explored the lived experience of social work educators in China (SWECs). Eleven SWECs participated in individual interviews to describe their experiences under the expansion of social work education in China, particularly related to research-practice-teaching collaborations. SWECs still questioned their social work attributes when facing challenges in social work education as connected to the country’s policy and practise development. They expressed that their faculty identity is much preferred over that of a social worker. They felt that they must weigh the pros and cons of engaging in practice versus research. They emphasised that social work education aimed to help students build personal capacity, while only three mentioned the importance of developing students’ commitment to the profession. Their inputs informed an essential structure for understanding social work as a profession and a discipline in China where there is a need and demand for its population.
{"title":"An Imbalanced professional identity: the experience of being social work educators in Mainland China","authors":"Wen Xu, X. Yuan, M. Cheung, Yu-Ju Huang","doi":"10.1080/17525098.2021.1905170","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17525098.2021.1905170","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This study explored the lived experience of social work educators in China (SWECs). Eleven SWECs participated in individual interviews to describe their experiences under the expansion of social work education in China, particularly related to research-practice-teaching collaborations. SWECs still questioned their social work attributes when facing challenges in social work education as connected to the country’s policy and practise development. They expressed that their faculty identity is much preferred over that of a social worker. They felt that they must weigh the pros and cons of engaging in practice versus research. They emphasised that social work education aimed to help students build personal capacity, while only three mentioned the importance of developing students’ commitment to the profession. Their inputs informed an essential structure for understanding social work as a profession and a discipline in China where there is a need and demand for its population.","PeriodicalId":38938,"journal":{"name":"China Journal of Social Work","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-04-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84780886","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 : 2021-04-06DOI: 10.1080/17525098.2021.1909237
M. Jackson, Debra Nelson Gardell, Javonda Williams, Ning Tang, Fan Yang
ABSTRACT China’s return to social work education, after a nearly 35-year absence, opened the door for partnerships like the 2012 China Collaborative partnership between the Council on Social Work Education’s (CSWE) Katherine A. Kendall Institute, the China Association of Social Work Education (CASWE) and the International Association of Schools of Social Work (IASSW). The University of Alabama School of Social Work (UA SSW) was selected to participate in the collaborative and was connected to the Southwest China Region, specifically partnered with Yunnan University. This manuscript will share the strategies used to engage faculty and students from each partnering institution. Data collected by UA SSW over the five-year partnership will be utilised to contribute to the discussion of the extent to which Western knowledge and theory about social work education might usefully be applied to the Chinese context.
{"title":"International collaboration for mutual benefit: a Southwest China and Southeast United States partnership","authors":"M. Jackson, Debra Nelson Gardell, Javonda Williams, Ning Tang, Fan Yang","doi":"10.1080/17525098.2021.1909237","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17525098.2021.1909237","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT China’s return to social work education, after a nearly 35-year absence, opened the door for partnerships like the 2012 China Collaborative partnership between the Council on Social Work Education’s (CSWE) Katherine A. Kendall Institute, the China Association of Social Work Education (CASWE) and the International Association of Schools of Social Work (IASSW). The University of Alabama School of Social Work (UA SSW) was selected to participate in the collaborative and was connected to the Southwest China Region, specifically partnered with Yunnan University. This manuscript will share the strategies used to engage faculty and students from each partnering institution. Data collected by UA SSW over the five-year partnership will be utilised to contribute to the discussion of the extent to which Western knowledge and theory about social work education might usefully be applied to the Chinese context.","PeriodicalId":38938,"journal":{"name":"China Journal of Social Work","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-04-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85381168","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 : 2021-03-26DOI: 10.1080/17525098.2021.1898080
Jie Lei, Wei Lu, S. Höjer, Agnieszka Repo, Zhenhao Su, Mengyu Ou, Heng Yang, Ling Yu, Boya Feng
ABSTRACT Social work education has extended globally and has developed in China at an unprecedented speed. Serious attention must be paid to how the global spread of social work education interacts with developments in China. This study describes and assesses an international collaboration in field education between six European and Chinese universities using multiple data sources in Guangdong Province. Trust, disciplinary unity and local participation in the collaboration generated good practices in developing Chinese field education, including linking and preparing universities and agencies from developed and less developed areas, implementing a well-defined learning process with a competence-based perspective and training supervisors through training the trainers. Moreover, positive outcomes of this project were identified, including high satisfaction by both students and supervisors and increasing levels of supervisors’ self-efficacy and students’ competencies. In future, international collaboration should focus more on the issue of indigenisation.
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Pub Date : 2021-03-17DOI: 10.1080/17525098.2021.1888765
Tao Li, Zhen Li, Yu Pan, Xiaojie Wang
ABSTRACT This study is based on an action-research project undertaken by Facilitators, a social work organisation in China helping migrant workers fight COVID-19. Applying the Capacities and Vulnerabilities Analysis (CVA) tools, four rounds of needs assessment were completed covering 46 migrant worker families experiencing difficulties, with additional data from 311 families who responded to a questionnaire. Our analysis highlights the impact of COVID-19 and the association of migrant worker families’ vulnerabilities with individual awareness levels and abilities, although lack of institutional support is also an important factor. Specific recommendations are made for a long-term mechanism on disaster management and social assistance. The authors call for the inclusion of family, child, and urban-rural integration perspectives, government-NGO cooperation and interaction among communities, NGOs and social workers to ensure improved and sustainable policies and services to reduce migrant worker families’ vulnerabilities.
{"title":"Frangibility and potentiality: migrant worker families in China during COVID-19","authors":"Tao Li, Zhen Li, Yu Pan, Xiaojie Wang","doi":"10.1080/17525098.2021.1888765","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17525098.2021.1888765","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This study is based on an action-research project undertaken by Facilitators, a social work organisation in China helping migrant workers fight COVID-19. Applying the Capacities and Vulnerabilities Analysis (CVA) tools, four rounds of needs assessment were completed covering 46 migrant worker families experiencing difficulties, with additional data from 311 families who responded to a questionnaire. Our analysis highlights the impact of COVID-19 and the association of migrant worker families’ vulnerabilities with individual awareness levels and abilities, although lack of institutional support is also an important factor. Specific recommendations are made for a long-term mechanism on disaster management and social assistance. The authors call for the inclusion of family, child, and urban-rural integration perspectives, government-NGO cooperation and interaction among communities, NGOs and social workers to ensure improved and sustainable policies and services to reduce migrant worker families’ vulnerabilities.","PeriodicalId":38938,"journal":{"name":"China Journal of Social Work","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-03-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80030172","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 : 2021-03-09DOI: 10.1080/17525098.2021.1872840
Fengzhi Ma, X. Lyu
ABSTRACT The outbreak of COVID-19 posed an immediate and serious challenge to Chinese society. This article reviews the overall situation of the COVID-19 pandemic in Mainland China, introduces the anti-pandemic intervention process and multi-level measures and regulations implemented by the state, and discusses the crucial responsibilities and roles that China’s social workers assumed to help address the great challenges and emerging needs caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. During lockdown, mainly based on an innovative online service platform, social work scholars, educators and practitioners not only provided immediate services and interventions for the general population and vulnerable groups but also offered professional training and service guidance to frontline workers in the fight against COVID-19 through research, education and services. The significant intervention of the social work profession in the public health crisis should be further recognised and promoted in Mainland China.
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Pub Date : 2021-02-01DOI: 10.1080/17525098.2021.1874116
Anna Chen, Xianda Gao
ABSTRACT Based on a domestic violence intervention undergraduate course offered by a university in Mainland China, this study explores how dialogic education help enhance the competencies of students on domestic violence intervention through action research, with a key framework on gender sensitivity in a multicultural context. In the action process of dialogic education, teachers are the facilitators, constructing diverse dialogic contexts for students. This enables students to break the culture of silence about domestic violence in freewriting, understand intimate partner violence from a gender perspective, develop critical reflection through Chinese and international comparison view, and enhance cultural sensitivity through multicultural group interactions, all of which enable students to achieve professional competence in domestic violence intervention, based on their life experiences. Finally, this paper discusses the further application of dialogue-based anti-domestic violence education in the China context.
{"title":"Enhancing the anti-domestic violence competencies of undergraduates: action research on a social work curriculum in Mainland China","authors":"Anna Chen, Xianda Gao","doi":"10.1080/17525098.2021.1874116","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17525098.2021.1874116","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Based on a domestic violence intervention undergraduate course offered by a university in Mainland China, this study explores how dialogic education help enhance the competencies of students on domestic violence intervention through action research, with a key framework on gender sensitivity in a multicultural context. In the action process of dialogic education, teachers are the facilitators, constructing diverse dialogic contexts for students. This enables students to break the culture of silence about domestic violence in freewriting, understand intimate partner violence from a gender perspective, develop critical reflection through Chinese and international comparison view, and enhance cultural sensitivity through multicultural group interactions, all of which enable students to achieve professional competence in domestic violence intervention, based on their life experiences. Finally, this paper discusses the further application of dialogue-based anti-domestic violence education in the China context.","PeriodicalId":38938,"journal":{"name":"China Journal of Social Work","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90439626","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 : 2021-01-02DOI: 10.1080/17525098.2021.1888431
H. Ku, Sibin Wang
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Pub Date : 2021-01-02DOI: 10.1080/17525098.2021.1911061
J. Leung
Family is the basic unit where socialisation, protection, support and security among family members take place (Leung and Shek 2013). Based on Confucian thought, each family member is obligated to subordinate one’s personal interest and desire to develop a harmonious and prosperous family as a whole (Yeh and Yang 1997). Unfortunately, the traditional functions and roles of families are gradually being eroded (Leung and Shek 2018). Family solidarity and values are challenged. Divorce, family violence, child abuse and neglect have been increasing in recent decades, attracting the attention of family scholars, researchers, social workers and policymakers (Hu et al. 2020; Xia, Li, and Liu 2018). Indeed, families are still important for Chinese people to seek protection from external forces, nurture their offspring, and encourage mutual support among members. In this issue, five studies demonstrate the recent development of intervention programmes and measures to enhance better support for parents, investigate the importance of intergenerational support for self-rated health of older Chinese immigrants, as well as present the emerging concerns of sexual minorities in contemporary Chinese society. The study of Ngai, Au-Yueng, Tsui and Zhu examined the effectiveness of an attachment-based parenting programme in a sample of 69 Hong Kong parents whose children at the age between six to twelve. The participants have participated in a standardised tensession Love, Limits and Latitude (LLL) programme. Originated from the United States, the LLL programme is a parent educational programmes using attachment theory as the theoretical framework. Results showed that parents reduced their parental stress, reported fewer children’s problematic behaviour, and had a better relationship with other family members after participating in the programme. The programme was proved effective when applied in Chinese contexts. The adoption of an attachment-based parenting programme in Chinese culture was also discussed. The study conducted by Mao, Guo, Xu, Liu and Chi aimed to examine the mediating role of depressive symptoms on the relationship between intergenerational support and self-rated health among 236 older Chinese immigrants in the United States. The study is especially important for Chinese immigrants as they might experience loneliness and depression with losing social ties, which might increase their vulnerabilities when they get old. Results indicated that there was a direct effect on intergenerational support to one’s self-rated health and an indirect effect through the reduction of depressive symptoms. The study illustrates the importance of strengthening care and emotional support from adult children, which may enhance the positive well-being of older Chinese immigrants. Two studies in this issue address the social problems of domestic violence. The study conducted by Choi, Liu and Chan examined the help-seeking experience of Chinese women who use force against
家庭是家庭成员之间进行社会化、保护、支持和安全的基本单位(Leung and Shek 2013)。根据儒家思想，每个家庭成员都有义务将个人利益和愿望置于次要地位，以发展一个和谐繁荣的家庭作为一个整体(Yeh and Yang 1997)。不幸的是，家庭的传统功能和角色正在逐渐被侵蚀(Leung and Shek, 2018)。家庭团结和价值观受到挑战。近几十年来，离婚、家庭暴力、虐待和忽视儿童的现象不断增加，引起了家庭学者、研究人员、社会工作者和政策制定者的关注(Hu et al. 2020;夏、李、刘2018)。事实上，对于中国人来说，家庭仍然很重要，它可以保护他们免受外部力量的侵害，培养他们的后代，并鼓励成员之间的相互支持。在这一期中，五项研究展示了干预方案和措施的最新发展，以加强对父母的更好支持，调查代际支持对老年中国移民自评健康的重要性，并介绍了当代中国社会中性少数群体的新问题。Ngai, Au-Yueng, Tsui和Zhu的研究在69位香港父母的样本中检验了基于依恋的育儿计划的有效性，这些父母的孩子年龄在6至12岁之间。参与者参加了一个标准化的张力，爱，极限和纬度(LLL)计划。亲子教育项目起源于美国，是以依恋理论为理论框架的亲子教育项目。结果显示，参加该计划后，家长减轻了父母的压力，报告的孩子问题行为减少，与其他家庭成员的关系也有所改善。实践证明，该方案在汉语语境中是有效的。本文还讨论了在中国文化中采用以依恋为基础的养育方式。这项研究对中国移民来说尤其重要，因为他们可能会因为失去社会关系而感到孤独和沮丧，这可能会增加他们年老时的脆弱性。结果表明，代际支持对个人自评健康有直接影响，并通过减少抑郁症状产生间接影响。该研究说明了加强成年子女的关怀和情感支持的重要性，这可能会提高中国老年移民的积极幸福感。本期的两项研究探讨了家庭暴力的社会问题。Choi、Liu和Chan进行的这项研究调查了在香港对丈夫使用暴力的中国女性寻求帮助的经历。《反对身体虐待》，《中国社会工作杂志》2021年第14卷第1期。1,1 - 3 https://doi.org/10.1080/17525098.2021.1911061
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