| Summary: | 碩士 === 東吳大學 === 社會工作學系 === 93 === This study was conducted by a Han nationality graduate student to explore three Taiwan Aboriginal people social workers’ main thoughts of their Taiwan Aboriginal people identity and Taiwan Aboriginal people social work. The purposes of this study were to understand the interviewees’ cognition of their ethnic identity, their social work experience and thoughts, and their thoughts of Taiwan Aboriginal people social work’s intrinsic properties.
For the literature review, the study employed social work’s “person in situation” perspective. It is believed that besides their own ethnic identity and profession identity, Taiwan Aboriginal people social workers also need to deal with their identity and profession status in Taiwan society and try to construct their own thoughts of Taiwan Aboriginal social work based on the influence and conflicts that arise from the precedent factors. Therefore, besides defining the meaning of ethnic identity, this study also tried to analyze how Taiwan society defines the position of Taiwan Aboriginal people social work by the following factors: Taiwan Aboriginal people development history, national policy for Taiwan Aboriginal people and the transition of social welfare system, Taiwan Aboriginal people social movements, and the process of Taiwan social work professionalization, in order to understand the social context and the working environment that the subjects have contacted with.
The interview of this study was conducted by a semi-constructed method. The presentation of the result was focused on the interviewees’ cognition of their ethnic identity, their social work experience and thoughts, and their thoughts of Taiwan Aboriginal people social work’s intrinsic properties and development. The interviewee in this study believed that the Taiwan Aboriginal people social work’s intrinsic properties should include the followings tasks：let clients find their own abilities; enhance clients’ self-image; find the clients’ edges; help them to create job opportunity; inherit their tradition and try to apply it to social work; to propagandize them through concrete and real subjects; learn the rules to survive in the society; help Aboriginal people living in the city to adapt to the society. Those intrinsic properties were especially presented here for Taiwan Aboriginal people social worker’s reference when they practice.
Finally, the suggestions of this study were as follows: 1. Breaking the public’s prejudice and stereotype of Taiwan Aboriginal people through propagandizing and interaction, 2. Upgrading the Taiwan Aboriginal people-based social work practice and research, 3. Two factors of Taiwan Aboriginal people social work are to develop the “help” mode by integrating traditional heritage and work rights, 4. Developing more diversity culture characteristics for Taiwan Aboriginal people social work education, and 5. Promoting certifications and professional education of Taiwan Aboriginal people social worker to enhance the quality and quantity of the social work professionals.
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