The living situation of Ukrainian refugees in the Czech Republic can be explored from various perspectives. However, the currently available data are not able to provide a sufficient view of the refugee situation. These data are rather economic (related to financial situation, employment, wage disadvantage, use of state aid, etc) and do not provide, for example, information on daily needs. Our goal is therefore to give a voice to refugees from Ukraine to describe their current perception of their life situation and based on this establish implications for social work. The data were created through the perspective of participatory research using the photovoice method (individual and group) interviews (n = 13), online responsive questionnaire survey (n = 41) and a final photo exhibition. According to the available data, the context of life situation was created by economic well-being. But the key theme of life situation of Ukrainian refugees was loneliness. An interesting aspect is the gender dimension of activities coping with loneliness, which especially includes the ‘typically female role’ of childcare.
{"title":"Voices of Refugee Families from Ukraine Currently Living in the Czech Republic","authors":"V. Racko, Kateřina Mikulcová","doi":"10.1093/bjsw/bcae119","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/bjsw/bcae119","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 The living situation of Ukrainian refugees in the Czech Republic can be explored from various perspectives. However, the currently available data are not able to provide a sufficient view of the refugee situation. These data are rather economic (related to financial situation, employment, wage disadvantage, use of state aid, etc) and do not provide, for example, information on daily needs. Our goal is therefore to give a voice to refugees from Ukraine to describe their current perception of their life situation and based on this establish implications for social work. The data were created through the perspective of participatory research using the photovoice method (individual and group) interviews (n = 13), online responsive questionnaire survey (n = 41) and a final photo exhibition. According to the available data, the context of life situation was created by economic well-being. But the key theme of life situation of Ukrainian refugees was loneliness. An interesting aspect is the gender dimension of activities coping with loneliness, which especially includes the ‘typically female role’ of childcare.","PeriodicalId":510024,"journal":{"name":"The British Journal of Social Work","volume":"56 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141643440","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}
Yongchao Jing, Grace A Bailey, Sin Yi Cheung, L. Griffiths, Jonathan Scourfield
Children’s chances of contact with the child welfare system at different stages vary significantly by their ethnicity. This study goes beyond recent UK studies on the scale of ethnic differences in children in care or on protection plans by improving data completeness through data linkage, considering the ethnic patterns in the wider population of children in need or receiving care and support, and reporting trends over time. We contribute to the literature on ethnic disproportionality in the child welfare system by reporting the patterns in Wales from 2011 to 2020. The trend of ethnic disproportionality was distinct from the changes in the absolute number of children in the child social welfare system by ethnicity. Over the ten-year period, Mixed-heritage children were the most overrepresented and Asian children the most underrepresented, with fluctuations in the level of overrepresentation between 1.1 and 1.5 and underrepresentation between 0.5 and 0.7. The level of representation for Black children fluctuated considerably between 0.8 and 1.2 over the years. The overall level of ethnic disproportionality in Wales increased from 2011 to 2016 and then decreased from 2017 to 2020. Ethnic disproportionality appeared more pronounced amongst girls and in age groups zero to four and sixteen to seventeen.
{"title":"Ethnic Disproportionality in the Child Welfare System: A Welsh Linked Administrative Data Study for 2011–2020","authors":"Yongchao Jing, Grace A Bailey, Sin Yi Cheung, L. Griffiths, Jonathan Scourfield","doi":"10.1093/bjsw/bcae117","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/bjsw/bcae117","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 Children’s chances of contact with the child welfare system at different stages vary significantly by their ethnicity. This study goes beyond recent UK studies on the scale of ethnic differences in children in care or on protection plans by improving data completeness through data linkage, considering the ethnic patterns in the wider population of children in need or receiving care and support, and reporting trends over time. We contribute to the literature on ethnic disproportionality in the child welfare system by reporting the patterns in Wales from 2011 to 2020. The trend of ethnic disproportionality was distinct from the changes in the absolute number of children in the child social welfare system by ethnicity. Over the ten-year period, Mixed-heritage children were the most overrepresented and Asian children the most underrepresented, with fluctuations in the level of overrepresentation between 1.1 and 1.5 and underrepresentation between 0.5 and 0.7. The level of representation for Black children fluctuated considerably between 0.8 and 1.2 over the years. The overall level of ethnic disproportionality in Wales increased from 2011 to 2016 and then decreased from 2017 to 2020. Ethnic disproportionality appeared more pronounced amongst girls and in age groups zero to four and sixteen to seventeen.","PeriodicalId":510024,"journal":{"name":"The British Journal of Social Work","volume":"36 10","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141663885","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}
Social workers worldwide experience high rates of depression, anxiety and deficits in well-being. Depression, anxiety or poor mental well-being can have a significant effect on the individual social worker, and the quality of care they can provide. There have been limited attempts to examine and understand the underlying psychological protective and risk factors for depression, anxiety and poor well-being amongst social workers. Using the clinically modified Buddhist psychological model (CBPM) as a theoretical framework, this cross-sectional study examined a range of potential psychological protective and risk factors for depression, anxiety and mental well-being of 121 social workers in Northern Ireland, using structural equation modelling, and conditional process analyses. Mindfulness, acceptance, attention regulation/decentering skills, self-compassion, non-attachment and non-aversion could act as protective factors against depression, anxiety and poor mental well-being in social workers. Results also indicate that each of these variables could reduce the extent to which social workers worry and ruminate, further reducing the risk that social workers might experience depression, anxiety, or poor mental well-being. This study offers promising preliminary evidence that the CBPM is a useful explanatory framework which helps to explain variation in depression, anxiety and mental well-being amongst social workers.
{"title":"Psychological Protective and Risk Factors for Depression, Anxiety and Mental Well-Being in Social Workers","authors":"A. Maddock","doi":"10.1093/bjsw/bcae116","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/bjsw/bcae116","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 Social workers worldwide experience high rates of depression, anxiety and deficits in well-being. Depression, anxiety or poor mental well-being can have a significant effect on the individual social worker, and the quality of care they can provide. There have been limited attempts to examine and understand the underlying psychological protective and risk factors for depression, anxiety and poor well-being amongst social workers. Using the clinically modified Buddhist psychological model (CBPM) as a theoretical framework, this cross-sectional study examined a range of potential psychological protective and risk factors for depression, anxiety and mental well-being of 121 social workers in Northern Ireland, using structural equation modelling, and conditional process analyses. Mindfulness, acceptance, attention regulation/decentering skills, self-compassion, non-attachment and non-aversion could act as protective factors against depression, anxiety and poor mental well-being in social workers. Results also indicate that each of these variables could reduce the extent to which social workers worry and ruminate, further reducing the risk that social workers might experience depression, anxiety, or poor mental well-being. This study offers promising preliminary evidence that the CBPM is a useful explanatory framework which helps to explain variation in depression, anxiety and mental well-being amongst social workers.","PeriodicalId":510024,"journal":{"name":"The British Journal of Social Work","volume":"56 21","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141663463","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}
Using the first Indian 2019 Time Use Survey, we investigate the association between women’s time spent on unpaid care work (UCW) and their employment status and whether this association differs by socio-demographic characteristics such as age, marital status, education level and household size, controlling for religion, social group status, household monthly expenditure and geographical location (e.g. rural versus urban settings). Using multinomial logistic regression, an inverse association was found between women’s UCW and their employment status. An hour increase in women’s time spent on UCW decreased their odds of employment, self-employment or pursuing higher education by 38 per cent, 27 per cent and 34 per cent, respectively. According to a decomposition analysis, almost 80 per cent of the odds ratios for employment status were due to increased time spent on UCW rather than the influence of socio-demographic characteristics. Findings underscore the need for integrating care provisions into the broader social and economic agenda for the country.
{"title":"Unpaid Care Work Time and Women’s Employment Status: Evidence from India","authors":"Saumya Tripathi, Fuhua Zhai, Sameena Azhar","doi":"10.1093/bjsw/bcae108","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/bjsw/bcae108","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 Using the first Indian 2019 Time Use Survey, we investigate the association between women’s time spent on unpaid care work (UCW) and their employment status and whether this association differs by socio-demographic characteristics such as age, marital status, education level and household size, controlling for religion, social group status, household monthly expenditure and geographical location (e.g. rural versus urban settings). Using multinomial logistic regression, an inverse association was found between women’s UCW and their employment status. An hour increase in women’s time spent on UCW decreased their odds of employment, self-employment or pursuing higher education by 38 per cent, 27 per cent and 34 per cent, respectively. According to a decomposition analysis, almost 80 per cent of the odds ratios for employment status were due to increased time spent on UCW rather than the influence of socio-demographic characteristics. Findings underscore the need for integrating care provisions into the broader social and economic agenda for the country.","PeriodicalId":510024,"journal":{"name":"The British Journal of Social Work","volume":" 23","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141676097","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}
This article reports on a small study that aimed to enhance disaster preparedness policy in Australian human service organisations. Adopting a transformative ecosocial lens, the researchers collaborated with emergency services as part of action research (AR) to co-design a series of workshops. The objectives of the workshops were to progressively develop disaster preparedness policy relating to risk assessment, service continuity and recovery plans. Semi-structured interviews with eight participants from human service organisations were undertaken post-workshop to explore their experiences and the impacts of workshops on organisational policy. Qualitative data were examined using thematic analysis. Five key themes emerged from the data. The themes were knowledge acquisition, the interrelationship between policy and practice, inter- and intra-professional relationships, organisational challenges and marginalisation. Whilst results indicated that workshops provided participants with opportunities to enhance disaster preparedness policy, participants described ongoing challenges inhibiting their progress within an organisational context. Implications for social work highlight the interrelationship between policy and practice and underscore the value of the profession’s multidimensional approach to practice. The need to disrupt the influence of the neoliberal discourse within the organisational context is critical for enhancing disaster preparedness and for mitigating the inequitable impacts of disasters on marginalised groups.
{"title":"Disaster Preparedness in Social Work: Enhancing Policy in Australian Human Service Organisations","authors":"Karen Bell, Heather Boetto","doi":"10.1093/bjsw/bcae111","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/bjsw/bcae111","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 This article reports on a small study that aimed to enhance disaster preparedness policy in Australian human service organisations. Adopting a transformative ecosocial lens, the researchers collaborated with emergency services as part of action research (AR) to co-design a series of workshops. The objectives of the workshops were to progressively develop disaster preparedness policy relating to risk assessment, service continuity and recovery plans. Semi-structured interviews with eight participants from human service organisations were undertaken post-workshop to explore their experiences and the impacts of workshops on organisational policy. Qualitative data were examined using thematic analysis. Five key themes emerged from the data. The themes were knowledge acquisition, the interrelationship between policy and practice, inter- and intra-professional relationships, organisational challenges and marginalisation. Whilst results indicated that workshops provided participants with opportunities to enhance disaster preparedness policy, participants described ongoing challenges inhibiting their progress within an organisational context. Implications for social work highlight the interrelationship between policy and practice and underscore the value of the profession’s multidimensional approach to practice. The need to disrupt the influence of the neoliberal discourse within the organisational context is critical for enhancing disaster preparedness and for mitigating the inequitable impacts of disasters on marginalised groups.","PeriodicalId":510024,"journal":{"name":"The British Journal of Social Work","volume":" 8","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141677304","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}
Lived experience, or people’s expertise and perspective derived from their involvement with events and interventions, represents an important resource for social work. Despite the appeal, lived experience is an ambiguous concept and the way social work knowledge is informed by lived experience is difficult to grasp. This article reports on a scoping review that maps the social work academic literature to examine how lived experience is used to inform social work. Over a thirty-three year period (between 1990 and 2022), we identified 1,877 studies. Of these, 110 met the inclusion criteria and were analysed for this study. Most studies (52 per cent) were published between 2019 and 2022, and a majority (43 per cent) were published from research conducted in the UK. The studies contribute knowledge to social work practice, education, research, and about the practical management of lived experience. The results show that lived experience contributions benefit both social work and the people contributing. An important implication is the opportunity for social work to lead the changes required to enable lived experience contributions to continuously inform the profession and contribute to social work realising its aspirational version of itself.
{"title":"What is the Scope and Contribution of Lived Experience in Social Work? A Scoping Review","authors":"Cameron Parsell, Ella Kuskoff, Skye Constantine","doi":"10.1093/bjsw/bcae106","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/bjsw/bcae106","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 Lived experience, or people’s expertise and perspective derived from their involvement with events and interventions, represents an important resource for social work. Despite the appeal, lived experience is an ambiguous concept and the way social work knowledge is informed by lived experience is difficult to grasp. This article reports on a scoping review that maps the social work academic literature to examine how lived experience is used to inform social work. Over a thirty-three year period (between 1990 and 2022), we identified 1,877 studies. Of these, 110 met the inclusion criteria and were analysed for this study. Most studies (52 per cent) were published between 2019 and 2022, and a majority (43 per cent) were published from research conducted in the UK. The studies contribute knowledge to social work practice, education, research, and about the practical management of lived experience. The results show that lived experience contributions benefit both social work and the people contributing. An important implication is the opportunity for social work to lead the changes required to enable lived experience contributions to continuously inform the profession and contribute to social work realising its aspirational version of itself.","PeriodicalId":510024,"journal":{"name":"The British Journal of Social Work","volume":" 5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141680134","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}
Despite the fact that care leavers are at significantly higher risk of homelessness than their peers who have not experienced care, there is a paucity of information on evidence-based interventions to address this risk. Lifelong Links is a program developed and delivered by the Family Rights Group in England. The intervention aims to ensure that a child in care has a positive support network around them to help during their time in care and into adulthood. In this article, we analyse the outcomes of a quasi-experimental evaluation of the Lifelong Links program. Specifically, we make use of a combination of coarsened exact matching, and a triple-differences approach (or difference in difference in differences analysis). Results of our analyses show that Lifelong Links is associated with a reduction in the risk of becoming homeless for care leavers aged eighteen to twenty in the years following its implementation. Our most robust model showed a reduction of around 10 per cent in the risk of a young care leaver being deemed at risk of, or experiencing homelessness, suggesting that improving ties between young people in care and their birth families (and/or building other sources of support) could have beneficial impacts on housing outcomes into adulthood.
{"title":"A Quasi-Experimental Evaluation of the Lifelong Links Intervention for Reducing Homelessness amongst Care Leavers","authors":"Michael Sanders, Vanessa Hirneis, Vanessa Picker","doi":"10.1093/bjsw/bcae068","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/bjsw/bcae068","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 Despite the fact that care leavers are at significantly higher risk of homelessness than their peers who have not experienced care, there is a paucity of information on evidence-based interventions to address this risk. Lifelong Links is a program developed and delivered by the Family Rights Group in England. The intervention aims to ensure that a child in care has a positive support network around them to help during their time in care and into adulthood. In this article, we analyse the outcomes of a quasi-experimental evaluation of the Lifelong Links program. Specifically, we make use of a combination of coarsened exact matching, and a triple-differences approach (or difference in difference in differences analysis). Results of our analyses show that Lifelong Links is associated with a reduction in the risk of becoming homeless for care leavers aged eighteen to twenty in the years following its implementation. Our most robust model showed a reduction of around 10 per cent in the risk of a young care leaver being deemed at risk of, or experiencing homelessness, suggesting that improving ties between young people in care and their birth families (and/or building other sources of support) could have beneficial impacts on housing outcomes into adulthood.","PeriodicalId":510024,"journal":{"name":"The British Journal of Social Work","volume":"112 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-05-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140985721","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}
This article presents the findings from an evaluation of post-proceedings support (PPS) within Gloucestershire Family Drug and Alcohol Court (FDAC). PPS is offered to parents in the year immediately following a completed FDAC hearing. The article provides background on the formation and development of FDACs across England and FDAC evaluations, before detailing the specific delivery model in use in Gloucestershire. The evaluation that took place March 2020–July 2022 examined the delivery, effectiveness and impact of the support services provided to families after legal proceedings concerning child welfare due to parental substance misuse. Employing a mixed-methods approach, the study analysed quantitative data to assess outcomes such as parental cessation of substance misuse and family reunification, alongside qualitative insights through interviews exploring families' and professionals' perceptions and experiences. This evaluation sheds light on the strengths and limitations of this post-proceeding offer. It examines the extent to which the services can be said to contribute to sustainable recovery for parents and whether the model is transferable to other FDACs. It highlights the importance of continuing support for families and may provide ‘conceptual’ transferability and insights that will be relevant to other FDACs and beyond into children’s and families’ social work.
{"title":"Post-Proceedings Support in a Family Drug and Alcohol Court","authors":"M. Baginsky, Ben Hickman, Jill Manthorpe","doi":"10.1093/bjsw/bcae057","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/bjsw/bcae057","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 This article presents the findings from an evaluation of post-proceedings support (PPS) within Gloucestershire Family Drug and Alcohol Court (FDAC). PPS is offered to parents in the year immediately following a completed FDAC hearing. The article provides background on the formation and development of FDACs across England and FDAC evaluations, before detailing the specific delivery model in use in Gloucestershire. The evaluation that took place March 2020–July 2022 examined the delivery, effectiveness and impact of the support services provided to families after legal proceedings concerning child welfare due to parental substance misuse. Employing a mixed-methods approach, the study analysed quantitative data to assess outcomes such as parental cessation of substance misuse and family reunification, alongside qualitative insights through interviews exploring families' and professionals' perceptions and experiences. This evaluation sheds light on the strengths and limitations of this post-proceeding offer. It examines the extent to which the services can be said to contribute to sustainable recovery for parents and whether the model is transferable to other FDACs. It highlights the importance of continuing support for families and may provide ‘conceptual’ transferability and insights that will be relevant to other FDACs and beyond into children’s and families’ social work.","PeriodicalId":510024,"journal":{"name":"The British Journal of Social Work","volume":" 6","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-05-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140988248","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}
{"title":"The Sage Handbook of Decision Making, Assessment and Risk in Social Work, Brian J. Taylor, John D. Fluke, Christopher J. Graham, Emily Keddell, Campbell Killick, Aron Shlonsky and Andrew Whittaker","authors":"Holger Suarez","doi":"10.1093/bjsw/bcae066","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/bjsw/bcae066","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":510024,"journal":{"name":"The British Journal of Social Work","volume":"114 20","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-05-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140988024","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}
This article seeks to critically engage Chris Maylea’s 2020 provocative call to end official social work by suggesting that the debate it sparked has the potential to expand the contemporary social work discourse. This article explores the complexities and potential dangers of Maylea’s radical call, particularly its susceptibility to co-option by neo-conservative agendas. Whilst the idea of calling for the end of official social work may seem absurd, the article maintains that it might serve as an intellectual tool to overcome the ‘imaginary inertia’ that arguably plagues discussions about reforming the profession. Drawing on Michel Foucault’s concept of ‘episteme’ and Gaston Bachelard’s ‘categories of the real’, it suggests that Maylea’s call for abolition challenges the established boundaries of what is considered possible and probable in the critical social work discourse. This might open new avenues that might otherwise remain invisible to reimagine the future of the profession. Consequently, it is posited that imagining the end of official social work may align with and expand opposing calls for reformation of the profession.
本文试图批判性地探讨克里斯-梅里亚 2020 年发出的结束官方社会工作的挑衅性呼吁，认为其引发的辩论有可能扩大当代社会工作的讨论范围。本文探讨了梅里亚激进呼吁的复杂性和潜在危险，尤其是其被新保守主义议程收编的可能性。虽然呼吁终结官方社会工作的想法看似荒谬，但文章认为，它可以作为一种智力工具，克服 "想象中的惰性"，这种惰性可能会困扰有关社会工作改革的讨论。文章借鉴米歇尔-福柯（Michel Foucault）的 "认识论"（episteme）概念和加斯东-巴谢拉（Gaston Bachelard）的 "现实范畴"（categories of the real），认为梅雷亚关于废除官方社会工作的呼吁挑战了批判性社会工作讨论中被认为是可能和可能的既定界限。这可能会为重新想象社会工作专业的未来开辟新的途径，否则这些途径可能会被忽视。因此，我们认为，想象官方社会工作的终结可能会与反对改革社会工作专业的呼声相一致，并扩大这种呼声。
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