How Do I Become a Family Support Worker?

What is family social work? Different social work scholars have proposed different definitions based on different theoretical schools and different perspectives. Taiwan scholars Xu Zhen and Lin Wanyi believe that family social work refers to the services and treatment provided to families by social workers to apply the principles and methods of social work to improve family life and expand family functions. Hong Kong scholar Ma Lizhuang pointed out in the book "Family Social Work" that family social work refers to helping the family to seek help, and using its own and social resources to enhance the daily functions of the family, improve family relationships and solve family problems.

Family social work

(Services provided by the government and society to improve families)

What is family social work? Different social work scholars have proposed different definitions based on different theoretical schools and different perspectives. Taiwan scholar

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Family social work

family social work

Services provided by the government and society to improve family life and function.

The professional development of family social work in Western European and North American countries was earlier. France established a charity daughter society in 1663 with the purpose of visiting poor families and improving their lives. In 1869, the British established a charity club in London, hiring

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Focusing on the whole family as the focus of problem evaluation and intervention

Family social work is not just to help individual members of the family or to solve the difficulties of individual members, but to intervene in the family due to the discovery of problems of individual members, and the problem is addressed to the entire family, that is, all members of the family All

Overview

There are different types of services for family social work, but the more common ones are as follows:

Clinical and Specific Services

(1) Clinical services include: counselling, social casework, and group work, such as family relationship counseling, marriage counseling, education programs, employment assistance, and more.

(2) Specific services include tangible services such as financial assistance, accommodation, food, and information provision.

Distinguishing family issues as services

(1) Husband and wife relationship is tense, divorced, separated, extramarital affairs.

(2) Obstacles to parent-child separation.

(3) Single-parent families.

(4) Youth run away from home or truancy.

(5) Unmarried mother or unmarried pregnancy.

(6) Physical and mental disorders, chronic diseases,

Advocated against "family theory"

Postmodernism opposes universal theoretical norms, arguing that theories are just the product of the establishment of power in the mainstream society to eliminate the alienation; the so-called "family theory" is nothing more than the expansion of the power of the interests of the interests in the patriarchal system. For example, the Chinese family theory of family means the up-to-down relationship between husband and wife, father and son, and brother and brother; postmodern thinking questions this family theory relationship. When applied in Western society, postmodernism also opposes the use of any religious norms to construct families, such as the nuclear family image of the "holy family" (father, mother, son, and daughter) encouraged by Christianity.

Anti-dualization approach to interpreting the family

Postmodernism opposes the use of "healthy", "normal", and "functional" families to distinguish them from "unhealthy", "abnormal", and "non-functional" families, and does not consider that there is a so-called "male" The existence of the "female" form to distinguish the role and position of the family; that is, the subversion of the functional theory of the family, denying the traditional division of labor in the so-called "male outside, female inside" family, namely "husband and wife", The dichotomy of the role of father and mother.

Questioning and Critique of Family Theory

Whether from a systemic or ecological perspective, it is emphasized that social pulsations or the social environment will affect the family system, and therefore the life experience of members of the family, and shape each different individual; it also includes the personal empowerment People s race, society, class, age, gender, and their powers and interactions that interact with the family and society; people do not create a family or a society, but are shaped by the society and the family. Here, I become unique or different. It is affected by so many complicated social factors. The postmodern perspective reminds us to accept diversity, compatibility, and non-absoluteness; to interpret and reflect families with different cultures, different social systems, different social classes, and multiple types with a reflective and open attitude.

Questioning and criticizing family practice or family social work

Respect for the differences between different cultures and societies, and the reflexivity of professional knowledge and professional workers power , how to help domestic workers in the family, especially those defined by non-mainstream society ( Single parents, unmarried, homosexuals, cohabiting families, etc.) When working together, always self-examination; aware of whether workers have excessively used professional knowledge, professional power, mainstream values, and husbandhood to intervene in the family system; and can also realize that There should be more room for interpretation (needs assessment) of family situations, because we need to clearly understand that in family practice, any reproduction of speaking, listening, interpreting and writing (case records) is It's impossible.

Questioning, Criticizing and Denying Family Policy

A family policy that conforms to the postmodern perspective should take into consideration various diverse, minority, and marginal families; and those families that can promote social marginalization have the opportunity to identify and value their own culture and differences.

In the transition from the explanation of the above-mentioned family social work guiding theory to the introduction of family social work practices and methods, it is necessary to explain that the general discussion of case work, group work, and community work methods in family social work practices is described in this book. Other chapters have been discussed, so starting from the third section below, we will discuss how to carry out family social work and resolve various contradictions and conflicts within the family based on the theory of family social treatment based on the above theory.