‘Brick’ or ‘Bridge’? – The roles and functions of Chinese social workers during the COVID-19 pandemic-Reference-Cited by-同舟云学术

‘Brick’ or ‘Bridge’? – The roles and functions of Chinese social workers during the COVID-19 pandemic

Published:2023-11-07 Issue: Volume: Page:
ISSN:0020-8728
Container-title:International Social Work
language:en
Short-container-title:International Social Work

Author:

Tang Ning¹^ORCID,Zhang Donghang²,Sun Fei³,Leung Charles Tong-Lit⁴^ORCID

Affiliation:

1. University of Saint Joseph, Macao, China

2. City University of Macau, China

3. Michigan State University, USA

4. Beijing Normal University, Zhuhai, China

Abstract

The COVID-19 pandemic has been shaping Chinese social workers to contribute to public health. To study the details, this article aims to explore the roles of social workers during the pandemic in China’s mainland and how social workers fulfilled their roles. The study used a cross-sectional design with a convergent parallel-mixed methodology. Its findings provide another piece of evidence demonstrating the functions of social work practitioners during a health crisis worldwide. However, the ambiguities of the social work profession in addressing public health emergencies were also unveiled in the case of China.

Funder

Higher Education Fund of Macao SAR Government

Publisher

SAGE Publications

Subject

Sociology and Political Science,Social Sciences (miscellaneous)

Link

http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/00208728231208005

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