社会支持网络理论下的农村留守儿童社会支持探究

Research on Social Support of Rural Left-behind Children from the Social Support Network Perspective

农村留守儿童作为一个特殊的弱势群体,自2004年后被社会广泛关注。由于主客观条件限制,农村留守儿童的需求难以被满足,从而妨碍其成长与发展,甚至连个人生存都受到威胁。本文应用社会支持网络理论,认为造成农村留守儿童问题的一大因素在于其社会支持网络的残缺。社会工作要充分发挥专业所长,为农村留守儿童构建一个安全、有效、完备的社会支持网络,具体行动则应该从个人内部和个人外部两个层面进行介入。

Rural left-behind children as a special vulnerable group, has aroused extensive public concern since 2004. Owing to the limitations of subjective and objective conditions, the demand of the rural left-behind children is difficult to meet, which consequently hinders their growth and development, and evenmay threaten their personal existence. Social support network theory is applied in this article. It suggeststhat a major factor leading to the problem of rural left-behind children is the lack of their social supportnetworks. The author emphasizes that social workers should give full play to the professional strengths soas to build a safe, effective and comprehensive social support network for the rural left-behind children.The concrete actions should be initiated from the intervention of both internal and external aspects.