Madden Robert G, Wayne Raymie H
Saint Joseph College, West Hartford, CT 06117, USA.
Soc Work. 2003 Jul;48(3):338-47. doi: 10.1093/sw/48.3.338.
Social workers in all practice areas are affected by interactions with the law and legal systems. Unfortunately, the profession has paid inadequate attention to education, scholarship, and practice in legal environments. This article introduces a new perspective for examining social work and the law called "therapeutic jurisprudence," which emanates from psychology/mental health law. Therapeutic jurisprudence focuses on the therapeutic and antitherapeutic consequences of laws, legal rules, and legal actions. It provides a framework for assessing legal issues, applying social science research to legal questions, and structuring interventions in the legal environment. The authors argue that this perspective has the potential to serve as a lens through which social workers can view the law and, ultimately, use the knowledge gained to achieve better outcomes for clients.
所有实务领域的社会工作者都会受到与法律及法律体系互动的影响。不幸的是，该专业对法律环境中的教育、学术研究及实务关注不足。本文引入了一种审视社会工作与法律的新视角，即“治疗法学”，它源自心理学/精神卫生法。治疗法学关注法律、法律规则及法律行为的治疗性和反治疗性后果。它为评估法律问题、将社会科学研究应用于法律问题以及构建在法律环境中的干预措施提供了一个框架。作者认为，这一视角有可能成为社会工作者看待法律的一个透镜，最终利用所获得的知识为客户取得更好的结果。
