1. Emergence of social work practice in rural China: A way forward?
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Meng, Qian, Gray, Mel, Bradt, Lieve, and Roets, Griet
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EDUCATION of social workers , *SOCIAL services , *ETHNOPSYCHOLOGY , *HEALTH care reform , *PRACTICAL politics , *PROFESSIONAL employee training , *RURAL conditions , *SOCIAL case work , *SOCIAL justice , *SOCIAL work education , *PROFESSIONAL practice , *CULTURAL awareness , *GOVERNMENT programs , *SOCIOECONOMIC factors - Abstract
Following massive socioeconomic reforms over the past three decades, social work in the People's Republic of China (hereafter China) has developed at an unprecedented pace. To respond to social issues arising from accelerated economic development, the government has launched a large-scale programme to train a professional social work workforce of 1.45 million by 2020. Social work in mainland China has developed, and continues to develop, rapidly in major urban centres, while rural areas remain largely neglected. This article describes developmental issues in rural China and argues that social work requires indigenised knowledge and interventions to address context-specific problems. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2019
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