In case consultations or case interviews, it is very important to accurately grasp the true intentions behind the client’s speech and to response effectively, as this significantly influences the process, direction, quality, and effect of the case interview. Each utterance or speech act of the client in the case interview can be regarded as an unfathomable “river of words”. In order to avoid the dilemma of “verbal adventure”, we should approve “the spirit (attitude, opinion and method) of Verbal Exploration”. Based on the analysis of data and information of the client’s speech behavior, the “Verbal Exploration” of the case consultant or service provider can be carried out successively or intersected from the five levels of data, information, knowledge or insight, theory and wisdom or spirituality. Therefore, more depth and breadth of empathy can be carried out in the case interview, and the verbal responses of social workers or counselors in the case interview can be promoted to be more objective, scientific, and logical.

In the new era, new quality productivity, as a core driving force for China’s high-quality development, plays a vital role in promoting the modernization of the national governance system and governance capacity. Social work stations, as a major institutional innovation within grassroots social governance, have become an important platform to meet the diverse needs of community residents. Through in-depth observations and interviews at X social work station in M City, this study reveals that the current service efficiency of social work station is hampered by several factors: a shortage of professional talent, insufficient technological innovation, inadequate financial support, and a limited awareness of the needs of service objects. In the new development phase of socialist modernization, it is essential to address the challenges surrounding service efficiency failures in social work stations through the lens of new quality productivity. To enhance the efficiency of social work stations,coordinated efforts should be made in several key areas: fostering technological innovation, cultivating professional talent, diversifying funding sources, and raising awareness of the needs of service users. Such efforts will be crucial for promoting the high-quality development of the service efficiency in social work stations.

Under the new situation, social work practice has encountered new challenges when engaging in rural revitalization, leading to a phenomenon of professional closure. Its main manifestations are the dual absence of agency among social workers and service recipients regarding professional goals, the withdrawal and passive participation of social workers in their professional paths, and the self-doubt experienced by social workers regarding their professional values and effectiveness professional values. In the context of rural revitalization, social work practice should promote the development of the profession through several perspectives: professional, local, historical, and integrative. Specific measures to achieve this include establishing a professional framework and constructing a discourse system for independent social work in China; developing a local perspective to create a theoretical and methodological foundation for local social work; adopting a historical viewpoint to devise an integrated intervention path between administrative logic and professional logic; and cultivating an integrative concept that promotes a collaborative social work practice system among the government, universities, and social organizations.

The government procurement of social services model has been a common means of social service provision, and service effectiveness evaluation is an important part of this model. This study used thematic analysis to examine interviews with stakeholders of government-purchased social work services to clarify purchasers and service providers perceive service effectiveness. The study found that the purchaser’s understanding of service effectiveness includes the number of service outputs, innovation in service programes, leadership recognition, and service delivery. The service provider’s understanding of service effectiveness, on the other hand, includes the change of service recipients,their satisfaction and recognition, service strategy, and service delivery. The research indicates that both parties harbor varied, often conflicting, perceptions of service effectiveness, while in practice, the service providers tende to align with the purchaser’s perception. This alignment occurs due to the inherent flaws in the current purchasing service model, which fails to function as a truly effective quasi-market mechanism. Consequently, this leads to a confusion surrounding the concept of effectiveness, a monopolization of the discourse on effectiveness, and the distortion of professional effectiveness by administrative power.

The development and construction of school social work in the new era aims to promote schools to better fulfill their primary role in education while facilitating the creation of a collaborative education governance system that involves schools, families, and communities. However, what factors contribute to the development and effectiveness of school social work? An investigation conducted at Puyang Experimental Primary School has reveald that the successful construction and development of school social work hinge on the construction of a robust campus cultural context. In building this cultural context, it is necessary to broaden both the content and methods of school moral education, explore targeted educational approaches rooted in cultural symbols in collaboration with families, and integrate cultural expressions into local social governance processes. This framework promises an action consensus and communication foundation for the construction of a collaborative education ecosystem involving multiple stakeholders, including schools, families, and communities, and provides practical resources for school social work to fulfill its therapeutic, preventive, and developmental roles. Localized school social work needs to closely align with school moral education, leveraging cultural elements to perform preventive and developmental functions, and exploring practical forms and carriers of therapeutic functions in combination with professional requirements.

Professional competence is fundamental to the development of the medical social work workforce and the quality of services. Utilizing data from the 2023 Inner Mongolia Medical Social Workers Dynamic Survey, this study assessed the professional competence of 227 medical social workers in Inner Mongolia. Employing quantitative research methods, it investigated the effects of public service motivation, self-efficacy and professional identity on professional competence. The study found that public service motivation, professional identity, and self-efficacy significantly and positively affected the professional competence of medical social workers. Moreover, professional identity was found to mediate the relationship between public service motivation and professional competence, while self-efficacy moderated the connection between public service motivation and professional identity. It is recommended that medical social workers should improve their competence through ongoing practice, learning, and professional training. Additionally, hospitals should strengthen social work services and management to ensure that medical social workers can effectively improve the quality of their services in interdisciplinary co-operation and achieve the health and well-being of their clients.

Empowerment is a crucial concept in the field of elderly professional services. However, social work services for elderly individuals living alone often struggle to achieve effectiveness due to the lack of an active aging perspective. This study integrates the theoretical connotations of empowerment and active aging to construct a “Agency-Health-Participation-Security” (AHPS) four-dimensional empowerment intervention framework. Using 17 typical cases of social work interventions for elderly individuals living alone published on the official website of the China National Social Work Association as examples, the study employs a minimal possible key case research logic to conduct a content analysis of the textual data. Research findings indicate that the subjectivity empowerment strategy emphasizes self-reflective abilities while relatively neglecting rational decision-making and capabilities for independent action. The health empowerment strategy generally focuses on mental health but pays insufficient attention to physical health status. Additionally, there is an overall lack of emphasis by social workers on participatory empowerment. In terms of security empowerment, there is a predominance of linking institutional resources, while the development of community security systems are comparatively weak. The AHPS is an empowerment intervention framework that incorporates an active aging perspective, offering a viable practical guide for social work services targeting elderly individuals living alone.

The construction of subjectivity in social work agencies is critical to the modernization of community governance. However, social work agencies often encounter challenges related to the deficiency in subjectivity when engaging in community governance. By analyzing macro-social structures and micro-practice fields, it is revealed that the detachment from localized practices and the deviation in subjectivity construction constitute the generative logic of this deficiency. To reshape the subjectivity of social work agencies, they must embed and root themselves in communities, integrate into residents’ daily lives, and actively engage in interactions and collaborative negotiations with diverse governance actors on an equal footing. This process facilitates the construction of their value-based and professional subjectivity, as well as encourages the interactive development of subjectivity. Consequently, this study proposes a "value-capability-relationship" three-dimensional embeddedness pathway to reconstruct the subjectivity of social work agencies through effective community integration.

Government data security governance should adhere to three fundamental principles: first, the balance between data freedom and data security; second, the coordination of data sovereignty and data rights; and third, the integration of data technology and security systems. The focus of data security regulation is to integrate the above concepts into a differentiated governance of government data security. This involves addressing security dilemmas, updating and integrating legal mechanisms for the comprehensive lifecycle security protection of big data, clarifying the boundary between freedom and security in the process of data value-added utilization, strengthen and reinforcing data flow security, safeguarding national data sovereignty and personal data rights, promoting the deep integration of data security technology and legal framework, and ensuring the security of government data chains.

This study uses NVivo12 Plus qualitative research software to conduct word frequency, coding, and cluster analysis on 25 policy documents related to elderly meal assistance services at both provincial and national levels. The research shows that elderly meal assistance services in China are still at an initial development stage. Provinces are actively implementing the central policy directives and expanding the scope of elderly meal assistance services. However, there is a general lack of reliable legal frameworks, insufficient attention to the sustainable operation of meal assistance points, and ambiguity surrounding the scope and implementation standards of value-added services. Further to that, there is a need to enhance focus on the effectiveness of policy implementation. In the future, provinces should improve the legal and regulatory construction in the field of elderly meal assistance services, pay attention to the sustainable development of elderly meal assistance services, clarify the scope and implementation standards of value-added services, and emphasize the effectiveness of policy implementation to promote the standardized and professional development of elderly meal assistance services.