Bob Shapell School of Social Work, Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv, Israel.
Health Soc Care Community. 2009 Mar;17(2):194-201. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2524.2008.00822.x. Epub 2008 Nov 24.
The participatory approach is depicted as inherent to the social work profession in social workers' theoretical literature, codes of ethics and practical discourse. The current study examined whether, and to what degree, social workers in Israel are indeed formally required to engage in participatory practices in the job descriptions of diverse social care services. A quantitative content analysis of 78 formal social workers' job descriptions revealed this requirement to be very limited. Most participatory actions required of social workers represented low-level service-user participation, pertained only to the initial and concluding stages of intervention, and referred to professional domains in which service-user participation is already required by law. A greater emphasis on participatory practice was found in job descriptions in the health field and those relating to community social workers. Various interpretations and implications of these findings are discussed.
参与式方法被描绘为社会工作者理论文献、道德规范和实践话语中社会工作职业的固有特征。本研究考察了以色列的社会工作者在不同社会关怀服务的工作描述中，是否以及在何种程度上确实被正式要求参与参与式实践。对 78 份正式社会工作者工作描述的定量内容分析表明，这种要求非常有限。大多数要求社会工作者进行的参与性行动代表了服务使用者低度参与，仅涉及干预的初始和结束阶段，并涉及服务使用者参与已经被法律要求的专业领域。在卫生领域和社区社会工作者的工作描述中，发现了对参与式实践的更大重视。讨论了对这些发现的各种解释和影响。
