A study on developing a model for social work practice in multicultural, cross cultural and international context

1999年的研究目标是巩固整理和分析数据的框架。在对近两年收集的数据进行讨论和分析的基础上，我们将框架设定为：1。2.社会工作价值观；2 .社会工作知识；社会工作方法（技能）。对于价值观、知识和技能，我们确定了与1)一般社会工作和2)特定文化相关的元素。研究结果报告如下：1。日本的社会文化和经济背景与跨文化社会工作研究的发展需要，2。非政府组织提供的支援；3. 社会工作专业人员提供的支援；4. 在社区团体中发展的支持；5. 美国和加拿大的跨文化社会服务和6。美国和加拿大的多元文化社会工作课程，以及日本发展跨文化和多元文化社会工作课程的未来任务和建议。研究结果如下：1)非政府组织使用的价值观、知识和技能与社会工作教育框架内发展的价值观、知识和技能非常相似；2)在另一种文化中作为少数民族的经历被认为是为非日本客户提供支持时最有用的知识和技能之一；3)没有跨文化经验的社工也在为非日本籍的客户提供支持，无论种族或国籍，他们从日本的社会工作教育中获得了实践基础。

The goal of the research for 1999 was to solidify the framework far sorting and analyzing the data. Based on the discusion and analysis of the data gathered in the past two years, we set the framework as follows: 1. Social work values, 2. Social work knowledge, and 3. Social work methods (skills). For values, knowledge, and skills, we identified elements which are related to 1) social work in general, and 2) culture specific.The research results are reported as follows: 1. Socio-cultural and Economic contexts and the need far developing cross-cultural social work study in Japan, 2. Supports provided by NGOs; 3. Supports provided by social work professionals; 4. Supports developed in the community groups; 5. Cross-cultural social services in US and Canada; and 6. Multicultural social work curriculum in US and Canada, and Future task and recommendations for developing cross-cultural and multicultural social work curriculum in Japan.Research outcomes are as follows: 1) The values, knowledge, and skills used in NGOs are very much similar to those developed within the framework of social work education; 2) Experience as a minority in another culture is found to be one of most useful knowledge and skills in providing support to non-Japanese clients; and 3) Social workers who do not have cross-cultural experience are also providing support to non-Japanese clients regardless of race or nationality and they acquired their practice bases from Japanese social work education.