Integration And Utilization Of Individual, Family And Community Resources

This research is an exploratory tracking study of social work intervening troubled children. The troubled children consist of the children who have difficulty in the psychological development and adaptation of study and living environment. Most of previous researches focused on the status description and correlation analysis,lacking a long-term tracking research on troubled children intervention. Based on the researcher's personal experience of serving troubled children,this research applies the action research methodology,aiming to find out a set of intervention strategy which can quickly help the clients out yet with a lasting effect.The service intervention process of this research was executed in Kangle Community, Xiamen. The clients were two troubled children, one boy with violent-inclination, and the other one with Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder. The researcher described the whole process of the two interventions and analyzed the interaction among the researcher, clients, family members, teachers and people around them. Besides, this research showed fully the process of the researcher's reflection, improvement and retrying. Coursed by the essence of action research, the researcher gradually formed the intervention strategy towards troubled children based on the continual practice.The service intervention strategy based on ecological systems theory ask social workers to improve the communication and adaptation between troubled students and environment as exploring the individual abilities of troubled students. The intervention strategy which emphasizes changing systems ( Microsystem, Mesosystem, Exosystem and Macrosystem), asks social workers to make full use of informal resources within family and community to exert their supports for improving troubles students. The theoretical contribution of this research is to modify systems theory which requires harmonizing all parts. Confronting the tension among different subjects,the researcher pays special attention to the interests and willings of each subject and treat the common part as the changing objectives. By this, the tension can be transformed to the motivation of action. In this way, it not only accelerates the change of troubled children, but also helps the surrounding people achieve development.