实用专业主义:广州市家庭综合服务中心社会工作者“专业能力”的界定及其逻辑

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The professional competence of social workers is a key determinant in the effectiveness of social services. However, so far there are no clearly defined standards of professional competence for social workers in China. This has affected the social recognition of the profession. With the intention of filling in the gap, this study brings together 49 expert educators and practitioners in social work from the comprehensive family service in Guangzhou. The Fuzzy Delphi method is applied to design the study, in which the participants are asked to select important indicators from the professional competence standard index used in UK, the USA and Hong Kong. A total of 29 indicators in three areas are identified by the experts as vital in social work professionalism. These three areas are value and ethnics, theoretical knowledge and practical skills. This newly identified set of indicators can have enormous implication in practice. For the first time, a professional competence standard can be used as guidelines for college social work curriculum development as well as professional education quality evaluation and management. It is also noted that the indicators selected by the participants show a tendency of pragmatism that is compliant, de-political and technocratic, likely an outcome from a mixture of the unique social work education and practice, local politics and other social and cultural conditions in China.

Key words: professional competencies, integrated family services, fuzzy Delphi method, social work

LEI Jie, HUANG Wanyi. Pragmatic Professionalism: Definition of Professional Competence and Its Rationality for Social Workers in Comprehensive Family Service, Guangzhou[J]. Chinese Journal of Sociology, 2017, 37(1): 211-241.

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