日本人の文化とソーシャルワーク : 受け身的な対人関係における「主体性」の把握

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Social work practice is the activity for helping clients and their daily life. It needs to understand the real life situation of clients. That explains why social work in Japan should understand the Japanese culture in their daily life. For this purpose, this paper focuses on cultural characteristic of the Japanese 'initiative', because having a good understanding of 'initiative' enables social workers to promote and encourage the process that a client keeps and recovers or reconstracts his independent life. First, this paper makes clear why social work study and practice in Japan should take notice of the Japanese culture, from the point of view of today's trend of the reformation of social welfare system in Japan, and of the universality and the uniqueness of social work theory and practice. Second, it examines about how to understand the initiative that the Japanese have in their daily life, throughout viewing cultural characteristic of Japanese personal relations. Finally, it tries to do a few consideration about typical Japanese 'self-determination'. The study of social work in relation to Japanese culture, like this paper, seems to lead to discovering the Japanese-style social work theory and practice.
1999-06-30