Social Work Essay-评价芬兰社会工作者 [2]
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关键词:FACSSocialvalue价社会工作者
摘要:本文主要是讲述FACS 和个人化议程之间有一个固有的张力,这个张力会给社会工作者带去导航,从而评价社会工作者,考虑他们怎么和服务用户建立友好关系。
ment in a decision through to the service user being in control of the process.
At its simplest level partnership working means working with service users and other agencies, rather than doing things for them and this is a good starting point. Thompson (2005, p123) however, suggests that it requires a 'degree of humility to accept that professionals do not have all the answers and clients have a major contribution to make in resolving the difficulties that have been identified'.. Although this quote precedes the development of self directed support, in many ways it captures the essence of personalisation. It steers social workers away from adopting the 'professional gift' model and working within a paternalistic framework. Instead it recognizes service users as having insight into their own needs. It views them as citizens with relationships and connections within families, networks and communities which only they fully understand. Many solutions and sometimes support can be found within these networks but the social worker must take the lead from the service user in unlocking this understanding.
The mandate for partnership working was introduced formally in the NHS and Community Care Act (1990). Policy guidance in which consumer power and power to purchase were seen as essential components in creating a market economy of welfare. It was assumed that the inevitable outcome would be the ability of service users to express their choice and act upon it. Armed with clear guidance in relation to decision making procedures, channels of complaint and involvement in assessment and planning, service users would be able to assert their own views on how best to meet their needs. Whilst these conditions went some way to changing the working relationship between the service user and the professional, the absence of one key ingredient, 'cash' meant that true consumerism could never be achieved.
Arguably Community Care failed to reject a paternalistic approach to social work with adults. As a result, the somewhat tame gestures of handing over power and control remained largely tokenistic. The framework and terminology which at its time may have appeared radical and refreshing, actually only served to reinforce the belief that power remained securely with the social worker and the state. At second glance however, shouldn't we have seen the writing on the wall? The clues may have been in the language used to described this process, 'care management', 'care manager' suggesting the need for someone to be 'in charge' of care. On one level, care management claimed to be about 'tailoring services to individual needs' yet at another level social workers were required to act as 'gate keepers', 'secure service' and 'support and control the delivery of the care plan'. 'The role of the practitioner is to assist the user in making choices from these resources, and put together an individual care plan (Department of Health 1991). The language used within care management suggests the values underpinning this process were based on a paternalistic model whereby the 'expert' care manager/social worker would support the service user to make 'sensible' decisions about how best to meet needs. One has to question how far we have journeyed from the sentiments of Minister Jay in 1973 in claiming that the gentlemen in Whitehall really does know what is good for the people than the people know themselves (Faber and Faber 1
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