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

《我们来谈谈性》：女性社工与年轻男性服务对象的对话

• 批准号: 2259152
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: University of Sussex
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Studentship
• 财政年份: 2019
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2019 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-2259152
• 关键词: Let; Talk; About; Sex; Conversations

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.

社会工作实践需要与弱势儿童和青少年合作，包括那些可能存在儿童性虐待（CSA），儿童性剥削（CSE）和有害性行为（HSB）问题的儿童和青少年。研究一直关注社会工作沟通和儿童参与的质量（Lefevre，2015）。这是一个特别的困难，当不得不匡威敏感的话题，如性和性行为。有许多因素可能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，作为这些对话的背景普遍存在的性别叙事。社会工作是一种“女性占多数的职业”（McPhail，2004年），因此，在社会工作实践中，与男性年轻人进行的关于CSA、CSE和HSB的大多数对话都是由女性从业者进行的。除此之外，CSE/CSA/HSB的大多数肇事者是男性儿童和成年人（Hackett，2014年）。鉴于这种情况下，本研究将提供一个深入的探索女性社会工作者和男性青少年谈判和经验的背景下，可能的CSA，CSE和HSB关注的对话？本研究将采用定性纵向方法，将参与式访谈与人种学相结合，以获得女性社会工作者和年轻男性客户在这些交流中如何促进或阻碍沟通和参与的丰富图片。这项研究的目的是提供一个有争议的和复杂的社会工作实践领域的分析，希望了解什么有助于塑造这些对话是否成功。由于缺乏对这一主题的事先研究，这种方法将是探索性和归纳性的。预计将产生一个知识体系，并将其理论化，以便在实践领域内进行进一步的实证研究，并考虑如何最好地改善未来的社会工作实践。