Social work and child protection for a post-pandemic world: the re-making of practice during COVID-19 and its renewal beyond it
Social work and child protection for a post-pandemic world: the re-making of practice during COVID-19 and its renewal beyond it
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DOI：
10.1080/02650533.2021.1922368
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发表时间：
2021-05-05
影响因子：
1.4
通讯作者：
Pink, Sarah
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作者：
Ferguson, Harry;Kelly, Laura;Pink, Sarah
2019冠状病毒病大流行给儿童保护领域的社会工作者和管理者带来了复杂的实际和道德困境，即如何在保持社交距离的同时应对儿童和家庭。本报告借鉴我们对疫情期间的实践的研究，展示社会工作者改变其实践的一些方式，并提供理论和概念，以帮助解释这种变化是如何发生的。借鉴人类学中使用的“偶然性”和“即兴创作”的概念，以及哈特穆特·罗莎关于“适应性转变”和“共鸣”的社会学工作，我们展示了社会工作者如何创造性地“重塑”他们实践的关键方面，通过数字个案工作，运动和步行相遇，认识到不平等并提供物质帮助，走进家庭，冒险接近孩子和父母。重要的是，这种即兴创作和改造是从大流行中学习和持续的，因为这可以更新实践，使社会工作者能够更好地改善服务使用者的生活。
The Covid-19 pandemic presented social workers and managers in child protection with complex practical and moral dilemmas about how to respond to children and families while social distancing. This paper draws on our research into practice during the pandemic to show some of the ways social workers changed their practice and to provide theories and concepts that can help to account for how such change occurs. Drawing on anthropological uses of the concepts of 'contingency' and 'improvisation' and Hartmut Rosa's sociological work on 'adaptive transformation' and 'resonance' we show how social workers creatively 're-made' key aspects of their practice, by recognising inequalities and providing material help, through digital casework, movement and walking encounters, and by going into homes and taking risks by getting close to children and parents. It is vital that such improvisation and remaking are learned from and sustained post-pandemic as this can renew practice and enable social workers to better enhance the lives of service users.