"Let's Talk About Sex": Conversations between Female Social Workers and Young Male Clients

社会工作实践需要与弱势儿童和年轻人合作，包括那些可能受到儿童性虐待(CSA)、儿童性剥削(CSE)和有害性行为(HSB)关注的人。研究一直在关注与儿童的社会工作沟通和参与的质量(Lefevre，2015)。人们注意到，当不得不谈论性和性等敏感话题时，这是一个特别困难的问题。有许多因素可能会影响这些对话的性质和质量。这项研究感兴趣的是在性虐待和社会工作实践方面普遍存在的性别叙述，作为这些对话的背景。社会工作是一种“女性占多数的职业”(McPhail 2004)，因此，在社会工作实践中，与男性年轻人就CSA、CSE和HSB进行的大部分对话都是由女性从业者进行的。除此之外，大多数CSE/CSA/HSB的肇事者是男性儿童和成年人(Hackett，2014)。在此背景下，本研究将深入探讨女性社工和青春期男性如何在可能的CSA、CSE和HSB关注的背景下谈判和体验对话？这项研究将采用定性的纵向方法，将参与性访谈与民族志相结合，以便更全面地了解在这些交流中，女性社会工作者和年轻男性客户之间的沟通和接触是如何得到促进或阻碍的。这项研究的目的是对社会工作实践中一个有争议和复杂的领域进行分析，希望了解是什么帮助塑造了这些对话的成功与否。鉴于之前对这一主题缺乏研究，这种方法将是探索性和归纳性的。预计将产生一系列知识并将其理论化，以便在实践领域进行进一步的实证研究，同时考虑如何最好地改进未来的社会工作实践。

Social Work practice entails working with vulnerable children and young people including those in the context of possible child sexual abuse (CSA), child sexual exploitation (CSE) and harmful sexual behaviour (HSB) concerns. Research has consistently identified concerns about the quality of social work communication and engagement with children (Lefevre, 2015). This is noted to be a particular difficulty when having to converse about sensitive topics such as sex and sexuality. There are numerous factors which likely influence the nature and quality of these conversations. This research is interested in the prevailing gender narratives in respect of sexual abuse and social work practice which serve as a backdrop to these conversations. Social work is a 'female majority profession' (McPhail 2004) and as such, the majority of conversations with male young people about CSA, CSE and HSB in social work practice are undertaken by female practitioners. Alongside this, the majority of perpetrators of CSE/CSA/HSB are male children and adults (Hackett, 2014). Given this context, this research will provide an in-depth exploration of how do female social workers and adolescent males negotiate and experience conversations in the context of possible CSA, CSE and HSB concerns? This research will employ a qualitative longitudinal approach combining participatory interviews with ethnography in order to gain a rich picture of how communication and engagement is facilitated or impeded between female social workers and young male clients in these exchanges. The intention of this research is to provide analysis of a contested and complex area of social work practice with the hope of learning what helps shape whether these conversations are successful or not. The approach will be exploratory and inductive in nature, given the lack of prior research on this topic. It is anticipated that a body of knowledge will be generated and theorised, allowing for further empirical research within the practice domain with consideration being given to how future social work practice could be best improved.