Analysis of social work intervening in case work of floating elderly people

Analysis of social work intervening in case work of floating elderly people

According to the situation and psychological characteristics of the elderly in other places, a case agreement can be concluded with their guardians. The floating elderly are obviously a special group that needs attention, but their sensitivity, inferiority and sympathy and exclusion need more attention. Therefore, in the case service of social work, according to the actual situation, a case agreement can be signed with its guardian under special circumstances. The following is my analysis of the case work of intervening in the elderly abroad. Welcome to read and browse.

Brief introduction of case

On the morning of 201213, A Feng (a pseudonym), a social worker of Baima Community Comprehensive Service Center in Chengnan District, Dongguan City, invited an old woman to take her blood pressure, but A Feng found out that she was a fellow villager, so A Feng began to talk to her. After some communication, Feng.

Later, after a long visit and communication with her children, A Feng learned more about her: the case owner (grandmother) Dangmou, a native of Henan, came to Dongguan five years ago to live with her daughter, son-in-law, granddaughter and grandson. Daughter is at home, son-in-law works outside, grandchildren are in primary school, and son-in-law is the only source of family income. The other two children live in their hometown. The case owner rarely goes out every day and must be accompanied by his daughter. The daily communication is limited to another old man in the same town introduced by his children. In addition, six months ago, the patient was hospitalized for diabetes and suffered from high blood pressure. When communicating with the case owner for the first time, the case owner showed that he was old, dragged down his children, fell ill, spent more money, had the idea of being world-weary, had a bad psychology and was under great pressure.

20 13 14. A Feng signed a case service agreement with He Mou, the main guardian of this case, to carry out the case work. The case service relationship lasted until March 20. Later, it was transformed into a frequent visitor to the community comprehensive service center.

At the beginning of the case work, the case owner had a strong desire to talk, mostly remembering the past. Social workers listen carefully and respond positively, and at the same time use empathy and contrast to carry out a slightly weak concept orientation. After the client's desire to talk is satisfied, social workers actively intervene and become leaders, guiding the client to eliminate his views on the disease and unhealthy psychology, and actively looking for his favorite lifestyle. This is the real consideration for children and responsibility for himself. After two months, the social worker found that the case owner could change from being noisy and agitated when hearing the TV sound to liking the opera in his hometown, go out for a walk at ordinary times and then go home to listen to a piece of opera. Social workers gave affirmation and encouragement to guide the case owner to actively communicate with foreigners around him (language communication is relatively easy) and participate in community activities. In three months, the psychological problems of the clients were positively guided, and they were able to find their own way of life, gradually getting rid of their children's dependence, enlightening and encouraging the elderly from other places around them to live actively.

In this case, it reflects the general state of the elderly outside Dongguan: the need for interpersonal communication, the need to establish their own way of life, and the need for social and community attention. These have to arouse the reflection of community social workers.

Case expansion

As far as a community in Dongguan is concerned, the registered population is more than 3,000, and the foreign population is more than 9,000, which is three times that of the local population. In this huge group of migrant workers, teenagers and children (new migratory birds) account for more than 90%, and they are the focus of community and social attention and convenience services. However, the concern of the elderly who moved to Dongguan with their children deserves our reflection. With the increase of the number of migrant workers and their living time, the floating elderly will also become the focus of social mobility and social work.

According to the investigation and daily field visits, the psychological and demand characteristics of the floating elderly can be summarized as the following four aspects:

(1) A strong sense of loneliness. When the old people from other places enter a new environment, on the one hand, leaving the familiar living environment will cause confusion and discomfort; On the other hand, as far as the acceptance of the elderly is concerned, it is difficult for them to adapt to the environment and culture of the new place through individual learning. Therefore, these two aspects lead to the lack of communication groups and comfortable environment for the elderly in other places, and they will gradually be moved to new places. Bound? .

(2) Inferiority, autism and even world-weariness. Because the foreign old people have been in a closed and lonely environment for a long time, their communication relationship is gradually weakened, and they will have a sense of self-protection or self-enclosure, and they will tend to reject external stimuli, which will cut off their channels of integration into the new environment in disguise and the meaning of life will gradually disappear. For some conservative old people, thinking that life is meaningless will become a burden to their families and children. This bad value orientation and psychological sensitivity and fragility will easily lead to bad behavior.

(3) The lack of the role of some function undertakers. The floating elderly need two functional role bearers: one is interpersonal communication, and the other is correct value orientation. What needs to be explained here is that family members (children) can only give foreign elderly people interpersonal communication in family relations, and the real thoughts and correct value orientation of the elderly need a reliable role independent of family relations. And the best actor in this role is the social worker.

(4) The demand level is low. With the change of the environment, the foreign elderly have lost their advantages in their original place of residence and need to rebuild their personal network in the new environment. However, due to the influence of communication, culture, ideas and other factors, foreign elderly people are isolated from the institutional circle they moved into. Therefore, the demand level of foreign elderly people is gradually decreasing, mostly for communication needs and belonging needs.

Theoretical analysis

According to the needs and satisfaction of the floating elderly, and the direction of social work intervention of the floating elderly, we can refer to the social life network theory.

The theory of social life network originates from Darwin's view of complex biological chain: is nature built into a biological chain? Life network? . What time? Life network? When a new species enters, it will trigger a series of reactions. Do you need it? Blend in? This process can only be stabilized after reaching a new balance. Later, some scholars combined the dynamic integration process with related immigration research and put forward? Social life network? Three dimensions: integration, life and competition. In the integration stage, the social life network is assumed to be primitive? Life network? There's one in it? Hard core? The form of this hard core can be varied, but its essence is an existing mechanism in the institutional circle, which is beneficial to those who enter the institutional circle. New power/new species? Choose, accept or reject. ? Hard core? Breakthrough will cause the change of the original system circle and the adjustment of the life network. * * * Born? And then what? Competition? The last two stages.

Obviously, it is to return to the social work of the elderly abroad and integrate? Stage is the key link of social work service for the floating elderly. How to break through? Hard core? It is the core for the elderly abroad to better adapt to the new environment.

Intervene in reflection

In the process of social work service for the floating elderly, according to its unique characteristics, this paper provides some technical suggestions for the social work of the floating elderly:

1. Respect the original cultural system of foreign elderly people. On the one hand, social workers should understand the original cultural habits of the floating elderly and be able to understand and accept them; On the other hand, try to arrange staff who can communicate with the elderly without barriers, and quickly establish trust and service relations.

2, pay attention to the personality characteristics of the elderly, have patience and can grasp the breakthrough. For foreign old people, due to the new environment? Bound? In addition to the characteristics of the elderly themselves, the service process inevitably involves the memories of the elderly, that is, life stories. For social workers, this situation first requires social workers to be an excellent listener and vent the feelings and needs of the elderly; Secondly, social workers are required to be patient and have enough patience to listen to and respond to foreign elderly people and gradually guide them to have positive ideas; Finally, in this process, social workers should have a deeper understanding of the elderly and be able to grasp the breakthrough of social workers' intervention, so as to change the passive listener role into the active guide role.

3. According to the situation and psychological characteristics of the elderly in other places, a case agreement can be concluded with their guardians. The floating elderly are obviously a special group that needs attention, but their sensitivity, inferiority and sympathy and exclusion need more attention. Therefore, in the case service of social work, according to the actual situation, a case agreement can be signed with its guardian under special circumstances.

4. Continue to follow up later. There are two ways to follow up the service effect of foreign elderly people in the later period: the first way is to change from case service to regular visits, and the second way is to change foreign elderly people from service targets to supporters of other foreign elderly people around them to help more foreign elderly people better integrate into the new environment. This method is better than social workers, and the cycle will be significantly shortened.

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