| Summary: | 碩士 === 國立臺灣師範大學 === 社會工作學研究所 === 106 === This study mainly explores the subjective experiences of social workers working with parents whose children are exposed to domestic violence. In addition to identifying the focus of how social workers work with parents, as a reference for practitioners, the study also analyzes the dilemmas social workers encounter in the process and how they cope with them. In this study, seven social workers who working in the field of exposure to domestic violence are interviewed. The findings of the study are as follows:
I. Social work services for children exposed to domestic violence include assessing their physical and mental safety, counseling their traumatic experiences, helping with their adaptation of family life, and ending family violence from generation to generation.
II. The focus of social workers working with parents is to estimate their parental abilities, assist in improving them, and facilitate parent-child interaction. Through forming partnership with parents, social workers accompany them to sort out problems they face, guide them to empathize with their children, help them to raise awareness of the issue of exposure to domestic violence and understand the reactions to it.
III. The difficulties social workers encounter in working with parents include parents still suffering from or being trapped in domestic violence and parents rejecting to discuss the issue of exposure to domestic violence. The ways to respond to these difficulties are understanding families’ current situation and parents’ response to domestic violence and also cooperate with networks. Finally, this study makes suggestions on institutional aspects, practice, and future research directions in social work concerning exposure to domestic violence.
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