社会工作优势视角理论内涵探究

Theoretical Connotation of Strength Perspective in Social Work

优势视角关注个人与环境中的潜在优势,以理想为指引、优势为策略和方法、复元为最终目的理论观点颠覆了长久以来专业对弱势群体的消极假设,撼动了传统社会工作中"问题"导向的主导地位,从而改变了专业价值、理论架构、实务方法的取向和结构;其对案主及工作者的认知和行为产生的变革性影响,有利于案主实现且保持长久的幸福。本文将从哲学基础、理论价值、本体论、认识论、方法论等多维度对优势视角理论内涵与实务方法做出详细的介绍与探究。

Strength perspectives focus on the potential advantages of individuals and the environment,subverting the long-standing negative assumptions for the disadvantaged group and shaking the dominant position of the'problem'model in the traditional social work.Thus,changing the orientation and structure of professional value,theoretical structure and practical methods,its transformative effect on the cognition and behavior of the clients and the social worker is beneficial to achieve and maintain clients’long-term happiness.This paper will explore in detail the theoretical connotation of the strength perspective from the philosophical basis,theoretical value,ontology,epistemology and methodology and so on.