Social Suffering: Changing Organisational Culture in Children and Families Social Work through Critical Reflection Groups-Insights from Bourdieu
Social Suffering: Changing Organisational Culture in Children and Families Social Work through Critical Reflection Groups-Insights from Bourdieu
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社会苦难：通过批判性反思小组改变儿童和家庭社会工作的组织文化——布迪厄的见解
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10.1093/bjsw/bcw087
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2017
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近年来，英语世界的儿童保护制度一直受到批评，被认为过于程序化和以合规为基础，社会工作者和案主之间的关系充满了相互怀疑和敌意。本文借鉴了一个知识交流项目的调查结果，在该项目中，大学社会工作系与两个地方当局合作，旨在实现儿童和家庭社会工作的文化变革。重点是社会工作者在参加批判性反思小组的过程中对他们在当代儿童保护系统和组织中的工作的看法。从业者的经历是利用皮埃尔·布迪厄的见解来考虑的，特别是他的社会苦难概念，这表明，由于新自由主义国家的要求，工人们在履行工作的道德和情感维度时可能会感到妥协。本文的结论是，批判性反思可能会提供一些有限的可能性来破坏主流实践正统观念和文化的稳定，从而鼓励组织中的文化变革。
Child protection systems across the English-speaking world have been subject to critique in recent years, identified as overly procedural and compliance-based, within which relationships between social workers and clients are characterised by mutual suspicion and animosity. This article draws on findings from a knowledge exchange project in which a university social work department worked with two local authorities with the aim of bringing about culture change in children and families’ social work. The focus is on what the social workers said about their work in contemporary child protection systems and organisations in the course of participation in critical reflection groups. The experiences of practitioners are considered using insights drawn from Pierre Bourdieu, and especially his notion of social suffering, which suggests that workers may feel compromised in fulfilling the moral and emotional dimensions of the job as a result of the demands of a neoliberal state. The article concludes that critical reflection may provide some limited possibilities to destabilise dominant practice orthodoxies and cultures and in so doing, encourage culture change in organisations.