Building China’s Social Service Capacity: Lessons Learned from Professional Training Program Collaborations

Behan, D; Findley, Katie; Germak, Andrew J.; Huang, Chien Chung

doi:10.1080/23303131.2014.896299

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“…Leung and Tam (2014) questioned the person-oriented rhetoric in political discourse, as individual autonomy and choice were inconsistent with Chinese authoritarianism and Confucian collectivism. Nevertheless, attempts to bring established fields of Western social work to China reflected foreign influences with evolving approaches to social service provision based on imported models (Behan et al, 2014). The influence of Western knowledge is visible, for example, in Huang and Wong’s (2013) choice of recreational group work to alleviate survivors’ distress following disasters and Wyatt and Silver’s (2015) use of a cross-cultural crisis intervention (developed in the United States) in the form of post-trauma psychological support following the Sichuan earthquake.…”

Section: Balancing Personal Social Services With Social Developmentmentioning

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A critical review of Chinese and international social work: Walking a tightrope between local and global standards

Meng

Gray

Bradt

et al. 2021

International Social Work

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This article presents a critical analysis of the challenges global social work standards present for mainland China (hereafter China) with its authoritarian political ideology that is in tension with the profession’s universal values grounded in liberal individualism. China is caught between the Scylla of universal standards and Charybdis of indigenisation seeking to adapt social work to its unique sociocultural contexts. Based on our extensive literature review, we identified four challenges for Chinese social work: (1) balancing personal social services and social development, (2) negotiating global standards and local realities, (3) responding to poverty and other national social development issues and (4) pressures towards indigenisation, while remaining in step with social work’s global standards. China favours the continued adaptation of imported knowledge and practice interventions within local and national sociocultural, economic and political realities. This study also highlights social work in China’s urban bias and limited attention to rural issues, acknowledging this is a concern for social work even in Western contexts.

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Section: Balancing Personal Social Services With Social Developmentmentioning

confidence: 99%

A critical review of Chinese and international social work: Walking a tightrope between local and global standards

Meng

Gray

Bradt

et al. 2021

International Social Work

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Building China’s Social Service Capacity: Lessons Learned from Professional Training Program Collaborations

Cited by 1 publication

References 10 publications

A critical review of Chinese and international social work: Walking a tightrope between local and global standards

A critical review of Chinese and international social work: Walking a tightrope between local and global standards

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