From Snapshots of Practice to a Movie: Researching Long-Term Social Work and Child Protection by Getting as Close as Possible to Practice and Organisational Life
From Snapshots of Practice to a Movie: Researching Long-Term Social Work and Child Protection by Getting as Close as Possible to Practice and Organisational Life
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从实践快照到电影：通过尽可能接近实践和组织生活来研究长期社会工作和儿童保护
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10.1093/bjsw/bcz119
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2020
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Ferguson H
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对社会工作和儿童保护的研究已经开始观察实践，以了解社会工作者实际上在做什么，然而，还没有对长期实践进行民族志研究。本文概述并分析了长期社会工作和儿童保护实践研究中使用的方法。研究人员花了15个月的时间在两个社会工作部门观察组织实践，文化和员工监督。我们还定期观察社会工作者遇到的儿童和家庭的样本30例长达一年，做了多达21个观察实践中相同的情况。在此期间，家庭成员也接受了多达3次的采访。本文认为，尽可能接近从业者和管理者的方法，因为他们正在做的工作，并采取纵向的方法，可以提供深入的见解，什么是社会工作实践，如何建立和维持与服务用户的关系随着时间的推移，或没有，以及组织的影响。参与做长期的研究，得到如此接近社会工作团队，个案工作和服务用户长达一年的挑战和道德困境被认为是。
Research into social work and child protection has begun to observe practice to find out what social workers actually do, however, no such ethnographic research has been done into long-term practice. This article outlines and analyses the methods used in a study of long-term social work and child protection practice. Researchers spent fifteen months embedded in two social work departments observing organisational practices, culture and staff supervision. We also regularly observed social worker’s encounters with children and families in a sample of thirty cases for up to a year, doing up to twenty-one observations of practice in the same cases. Family members were also interviewed up to 3 times during that time. This article argues that a methodology that gets as close as possible to practitioners and managers as they are doing the work and that takes a longitudinal approach can provide deep insights into what social work practice is, how helpful relationships with service users are established and sustained over time, or not, and the influence of organisations. The challenges and ethical dilemmas involved in doing long-term research that gets so close to social work teams, casework and service users for up to a year are considered.