Implementing a strengths perspective in child welfare and protection: a challenge not to be taken lightly
Implementing a strengths perspective in child welfare and protection: a challenge not to be taken lightly
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在儿童福利和保护方面实施优势观点：一项不容忽视的挑战
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2014
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T. Schiettecat
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R. Roose;G. Roets;T. Schiettecat
尽管可以观察到优势视角在社会工作中越来越受欢迎，但社会工作研究人员已经阐明了获得有关主张优势视角的实际社会工作实践的经验知识的必要性。我们探讨了最近在佛兰德斯（比利时佛兰德斯语地区）儿童福利和保护领域的优势导向试点项目的研究结果，其中我们检验了社会工作中的优势导向话语是否真正发生在社会工作者与家庭之间的关系中。这项研究揭示了在实践中实施优势观点的方式的模糊性，因为社会工作者在负责家庭和管理家庭之间走钢丝。我们认为，实施过程需要一个超越单纯折衷主义的概念和理论基础。我们还认为，这需要将以优势为导向的社会工作的重点从关系层面扩大到政治层面，因为这种以优势为导向的社会工作实践仍然处于更广泛的社会、经济和政治背景中。
Although it can be observed that the popularity of a strengths perspective in social work is increasing, social work researchers have articulated the necessity to gain empirical knowledge about actual social work practice that claims a strengths perspective. We explore the findings of recent research into a strengths-oriented pilot project in the field of child welfare and protection in Flanders (the Flemish speaking part of Belgium), in which we examined whether the strengths-oriented discourse in social work actually took place in the relationship between social workers and families in practice. The research reveals an ambiguous picture of the ways in which the strengths perspective can be implemented in practice, because social workers walk a tightrope between responsibilizing and governing families. We argue that the implementation process needs a conceptual and theoretical foundation that goes beyond mere eclecticism. We also argue that this demands a broadening of the focus of strengths-oriented social work from a relational to a political level, as this strengths-oriented social work practice remains situated within the broader social, economic, and political context.