Towards a Post-Conventional Philosophical Base for Social Work
Towards a Post-Conventional Philosophical Base for Social Work
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DOI：
10.1093/bjsw/bcr073
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发表时间：
2012-04-01
影响因子：
1.8
通讯作者：
Bell, Karen
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作者：
Bell, Karen
社会工作者需要使用一系列理论来指导他们的实践，这在当代社会工作批判文献中已得到充分证实。然而，有人认为，尽管近年来社会工作理论有所创新，但该专业的本体论基础尚未受到足够的重视。在缺乏明确阐述的本体论基础的情况下，主流社会工作理论存在持续过度依赖传统范式的风险。为了发展真正整体的知识库，社会工作需要进一步反思、重新想象和改革其本体论基础，以转向清晰明确的后传统范式。主要基于 Luce Irigaray、Donna Haraway、Rosi Braidotti、Margrit Shildrick 和 Charis Thompson 的工作，提出了一种充分考虑互联性、参与和合作的后传统范式。这种重新设想的范式可以说是社会工作领域的更好代表，包括社会工作理论、实践和核心价值观。以实证主义、线性、生物医学概念为基础的传统范式的基础过于狭窄，无法充分支撑社会工作领域。
The need for social workers to use a range of theory to inform their practice is well established in contemporary critical social work literature. However, it is argued that the ontological base of the profession has not received enough attention, despite innovations in social work theory in recent years. In the absence of a clearly articulated ontological base, there is a risk that there will be a persistent over-reliance on conventional paradigms in mainstream social work theory. In order to develop a truly holistic knowledge base, social work needs to further reflect, re-imagine and reform its ontological base to move to a clearly articulated post-conventional paradigm. Based largely on the work of Luce Irigaray, Donna Haraway, Rosi Braidotti, Margrit Shildrick and Charis Thompson, a post-conventional paradigm that adequately accounts for interconnectedness, participation and co-operation is proposed. Such a re-envisioned paradigm would arguably be a better representation of the social work domain, including social work theory, practice and core values. The conventional paradigm grounded in positivist, linear, biomedical notions is far too narrow a base to adequately underpin the social work domain.