Ashley Nicole Prowell, MSW, is a PhD candidate, School of Social Work, Little Hall, Box 870314, University of Alabama, 670 Judy Bonner Drive, Tuscaloosa, AL 35401; e-mail:
Soc Work. 2019 Apr 1;64(2):123-130. doi: 10.1093/sw/swz007.
Since the 1970s, the construct of resilience has become detached from its original context of trauma and reassembled as a normative behavior, patterned after society's dominant class. A decade after becoming a focus of academic attention, resilience began to influence the advocacy community through the strengths-based approach commonly used by social workers. While many continue to use resilience within the context of trauma, mainstream society has marketed a new construct of resilience with dangerous, underlying assumptions. This conceptual article uses post-structuralism to problematize the construct of resilience within social work and provides suggestions on how to more cautiously and comprehensively implement resilience in social work education, practice, and research. This theoretical application of post-structuralism in social work is important in that it urges social workers to be more critical and to better advocate for marginalized groups through practices and methodologies. This work provides direction for future research, methodological and theoretical positioning for researchers, and guidance for skill building in social work education.
自 20 世纪 70 年代以来，恢复力的概念已经脱离了其最初的创伤背景，并被重新构建为一种符合社会主导阶层的规范行为。成为学术关注的焦点十年后，通过社会工作者常用的基于优势的方法，恢复力开始影响倡导界。尽管许多人仍然在创伤背景下使用恢复力，但主流社会已经用危险的、潜在的假设推销了一种新的恢复力概念。本文运用后结构主义对社会工作中恢复力的概念进行了质疑，并就如何更谨慎、更全面地将恢复力纳入社会工作教育、实践和研究提出了建议。后结构主义在社会工作中的这种理论应用很重要，因为它促使社会工作者更加批判，并通过实践和方法更好地为边缘化群体辩护。这项工作为未来的研究提供了方向，为研究人员提供了方法论和理论定位的指导，并为社会工作教育中的技能建设提供了指导。
