失独者的增权行动研究——以T市Q街道为例

A Study on the Empowerment of Parents Who Have Lost the Only Child——Evidence from Q community in T city

失独者是一个比较特殊的群体,是独生子女政策的产物,因独生子女死亡而使其父母在中老年成为孤寡老人。对这一人群的社会工作服务包括生活照料、心理抚慰以及其他物质和精神的服务递送。本文以T市Q街道为期三年的“针对计划生育特殊家庭精准帮扶工作”为例,使用行动研究方法,研究者与社工人员同时介入、进行项目干预,帮助失独者提高自信、从失权失能的弱者转变成为主宰生活、增强自我掌控感的强者。

The parents who lost their only child are a special group, which is the product of the one-child family planning era. The death of the only child makes the parents helpless old people. Social work services for this group include life care, psychological comfort and other material and spiritual support. This paper takes the four-year project of Q community in T city as an example. Using the method of action research, researchers and social workers intervene and carry out project intervention at the same time to help the parents to improve their confidence, and change from the weak person who has lost power and ability to the strong person who is in charge of life and able to enhance the sense of self-control.