In light of the ongoing relaxation of fertility policies, the fertility rate has not increased as anticipated and has even experienced a decline. Based on Coser’s social conflict theory, factor analysis is adopted to investigate the factors that influence the fertility intentions of youth of childbearing age. The findings reveal that the factors affecting the fertility intentions of youth of childbearing age are, in order of significance, institutional factors, conflict of interest between individuals and work-family resources, and conflict of fertility values. Notably, the inadequate livelihood security system, gender-based inequality within the employment system, and the insufficient housing security are the main institutional factors influencing the fertility intentions of youth of childbearing age. Conflict sof interests arise between individuals and their families, as well as between the families and their employing organizations. The conflict of perceptions manifest in the clash between the traditional and modern sconcept of reproduction, as well as in tensioins between the utilitarian and the emotional considerations regarding childbearing and childrearing. To improve the childbearing environment and increase the young people’s fertility intentions, the study advocates for the enhancement of the supportive childbearing and childrearing policies, the development of mechanisms to promotework-family balance.

Using structured interviews, this study learns the underlying causes of emotional neglect among families of ten rural left-behind children in W village of Linzhou city, Henan Province. The results reveal that left-behind children’s family emotional deficits are manifested in four aspects: repressed emotions, behavioral problems, incorrect perceptions and poor social skills. Based on the social ecosystem theory and utilizing the Satir model of family therapy and interaction, the research team has carried out three phases of group work in seven sessions to remodel the family emotions of left-behind children. Results suggest that group work has a significant catalytic effect on improving left-behind children’s family emotions. Interventions on both the left-behind children and their environmental systems can help to alleviate the negative impact of parental absence. In addition, fostering effective family communication can promote healthier parent-child relationship.

Based on the samples of 235 front-line social workers in China, this paper explores the influence of self-compassion on compassion fatigue among front-line social workers and the mediation effect of career self-efficacy. The results show that, after controlling for age, education, years of employment, professional qualifications, monthly salary and communication frequency with supervisors, self-compassion and career self-efficacy of front-line social workers are negative predictors of compassion fatigue, and career self-efficacy played a partial mediating role between self-compassion and compassion fatigue. To help front-line social workers effectively deal with compassion fatigue and related professional mental health problems, the research suggests that first-line social workers should learn to apply self-compassion, set professional boundary and enhance professional literacy on the individual level, administrators should improve professional supervision and performance appraisal systems on the management level.

One of the important signs of the standardization and maturity of social work research lies in the improvement of the standardization and applicability of research methods. The study uses content analysis to examine the use of research methods from the papers in key academic journals related to social work between 2017 and 2021 in China. By a longitudinal comparison between the statistical data and the early data of the same journals, as well as a horizontal comparison with the corresponding data of research methods in the top international journals, Research on Social Work Practice and Social Work, the study aims to quest for the tendency and orientation of social work research methods at the present stage. After analyzing the data, the study finds that Chinese social work research has presented an empirical research orientation, and the proportion of scholars who use quantitative research methods has also increased significantly. This reflects the internationalization and paradigm shift of social work discipline development, and the tendency towards standardization of traditional qualitative research. However, the social work research in China still focuses on speculative research, and quantitative research is still inadequate. Academic standardization and research depth need to be strengthened. At the same time, social work research in China still lacks academic influence and appeal due to the absence of authoritative journals of social work. Overall, there is still room for improvement in Chinese social work research.

Flexible governance is increasingly becoming an important means for international communities to improve governance efficiency. Based on the analytical framework of social and cultural space and adopting the extended case method, this study analyzes the case of Q community, an international community in Nanjing, investigates the flexible governance mechanism driven by social and cultural space composed of core elements such as public space, social relations and community system. The study further explores the upgrading and transformation path of community governance. Our research suggests that public space is the kernel in practice. Guided by the principle of resident autonomy, the concept of “people-oriented” governance is put into practice with both Chinese and foreign residents taking the leading role in public and cultural disciplines. Guided by the idea of diverse participation, social relations play a fundamental part in the formation of subjectivities in “multiple collaborative” governance,through the process of multiple coordination and complementary advantages. The community system is the safeguard of the implementation of flexible governance strategy. Through flexible governance and multiple considerations led by government departments, the social system drives the implementation of flexible governance strategies.

Urban communities are important for citizens to live and carry out diverse activities. It also serves as a basic unit of public health risk management. Exploring resilient community from a spatial dimension is an important solution for the government to deal with public health risks in an orderly way. However, the imbalance in the differential patterns of community space in diversified cities, the insufficient supply of community infrastructure and public service space, the lack of allocation of community space resources, and the weakening of ecological space basic resources all affect and restrict the construction of resilient communities. Spatial resilience provides guidance and practical value for effectively preventing and defusing major public health risks in urban communities. Through spatial resilience governance, the health, safety, and sustainable development of urban communities can be promoted from various perspectives, including concept and planning resilience, infrastructure and public service supply resilience, resource allocation resilience, and ecological space resilience, to enhance urban resilience and the modernization of national emergency management.

The competence of community workers concerns the exploration of social governance innovation in urban grassroot society in China. Current competence studies focus on psychometrics methods for competence scale development but neglect the context of social governance innovation and individual capacity development. In this study, in-depth interviews were conducted with community workers in Shanghai, China, based on the “problem-solution” and “structure-action” perspectives. Cross-analysis was performed on individual cases and their personal abilities. Results from the interviews revealed a “foundation-practice-principle” framework, which may be applied to developing educational programs for community workers.

Based on the job requirement-resource model and configuration perspective, this paper takes 300 social workers in Shenzhen as research subjects in a dynamic survey of social work in China. Fuzzy set qualitative comparative analysis is used to analyze the configuration of the elements of job requirements and job resources and explore the complex causal effects behind high turnover intention. The findings of the study are listed as follows. The high turnover intention of social workers shows characteristics of “multiple concurrency”, “equivalence” and “causal asymmetry”. Any single antecedent condition is not a necessary condition for high turnover intention. High turnover intention is the result of a combination of multiple working conditions. Under the influence of the psychological mechanism of negative bias, the “attrition” effect of high job requirements is stronger than the “buffer” effect of the same work resources. It is much easier to produce high turnover intention than not to. The negative impacts of high job requirements will not be buffered by any work resources. In the face of the high turnover rate of social work talents, institutions should improve working conditions with considerations of the actual situation to avoid a one-size-fits-all approach. Social workers should establish correct values, take appropriate ways to release work pressure and negative emotions, and reduce or avoid excessive physical and psychological losses under the influence of negative bias.

For a long time, the importance of care work has been neglected, and the “disempowerment” of care work for care workers mainly comes from two aspects: physical labor and emotional labor, which hinders the improvement of the professional situation of the care workers. For physical labor, the caregiver community affirms the specialization of nursing work by emphasizing professionalism and ethics; For emotional labor, caregivers carry out subjective empowerment from the two dimensions of superficial economic returns and deep emotional relationships, and show obvious pragmatic characteristics. The “disempowerment” of care work and the subjective empowerment strategy of caregiver groups affect the quality of caregiving practice, and a professional and humanized nursing system should be built from the professional treatment, training and industry management system of caregivers, and the role of professional social work in the empowerment of caregivers should be brought into play.

Based on the in-depth interview data of 56 cases in Henan, Jiangxi, and Sichuan provinces, this paper constructs a demand-oriented model of a care service system for rural left-behind women through three-level coding with Grounded Theory approach. It is found that the needs satisfaction of rural left-behind women is still largely focused on the “scarcity needs”, and less related to the “growth needs”. Combined with the theory of social support and hierarchy of needs, the study holds that the construction and improvement of the care service system for rural left-behind women urgently require the cooperation and participation of multiple forces, such as the state, society, and family. Efforts are also needed from the multiple forces to provide rural left-behind women with primary services such as family livelihood, basic life, health care, family care, children’s education, labor production, emotional care, and cultural activities. Further, the care service system also needs to attach importance to rural left-behind women’s self-esteem and self-realization needs, guide the establishment of advanced gender culture concepts, strengthen targeted employment and entrepreneurship services, help them to improve their physical and mental health and quality of life, and then make them the promoters and beneficiaries of the rural revitalization strategy.

Research on the post-traumatic growth of stigmatized groups has been limited by investigating only on single influencing factors, lacking a systematic theoretical framework. This has hindered the development of evidence-based health social work interventions in this area. To address this gap, we conducted a scoping review based on the social determinants of health theory. We identified 114 high-quality papers from databases such as Knowledge and Web of Science. Our findings revealed five categories of influences that affect post-traumatic growth in stigmatized groups, namely socio-cultural background, family and neighborhood community environment, access to resources, nature of the traumatic event, and personality traits and cognitive processes. The framework of psychosocial determinants of post-traumatic growth of stigmatized groups, developed in this study, can provide a foundation for theoretical research and practice in the field of health social work.

As practitioners in the human service industry, social workers are at high risk of occupational burnout. In order to prevent social workers from falling into occupational burnout, physical and mental health damage, and career development difficulties, this study uses a systematic evaluation method to comprehensively review existing literature on the influencing factors of social work occupational burnout. This study scientifically screens high-quality empirical work, sorts significant effective factors, and explores the mechanism of action effects. After systematic evaluation, 29 high-quality empirical with a total sample size of 15895 are included. Thematic analysis shows that the job burnout of social workers is the result of the joint effect of individual factors (demographic characteristics and psychological factors) and environmental factors (work characteristics, organizational factors, family and social factors). Based on research findings, this study constructs a theoretical model of the influencing factors of occupational burnout among social workers, verifying the universal theory of occupational burnout while expanding the theory. Finally, this study compares the empirical evidence provided in the included literature, identifying the commonalities and differences between the two, pointing out the direction for theoretical development and providing suggestions for management practice.

Making full use of the Internet to improve the physical and mental health of the elderly is a new connotation of active and healthy aging in a digital society. This paper uses data from the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study (CHARLS) to investigate the impact of digital society on the health status of the elderly. The empirical results show that Internet accessibility adversely affects the physical health of the elderly but improves their mental health. Internet participation improves the physical and mental health of the elderly, while the development of the digital economy improves the physical and mental health of the elderly. Moreover, digital society has a more significant impact on the health condition of elderly women. Therefore, it is recommended to adhere to the principle of “upholding one goal, focusing on three perspectives, and insisting on three main entities” to build a digital society that is healthy and friendly to the elderly, to help bridge the digital divide for the elderly, to promote the physical and mental health of the elderly, and to facilitate the achievement of the national goal of active and healthy aging.

Social policies play an important role in maintaining social stability and improving people’s well-being. According to the important historical nodes, China’s social policy can be divided into three stages: gradual development, gradual transformation and gradual integration, each of which is characterized by singularity, alternation and integration. Based on the historical institutionalism method, this research analyzes the reasons for the above characteristics of China’s social policy. It is found that the self-locking effect, the external effect and the coordination effect in the welfare provision system drive the changes of China’s social policy system respectively. The above changes are jointly influenced by interest selection, transformation of efficiency and fairness, and the internal and external institutional environment of the social policy system.

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.

In the context of the digital era, developing an expert consensus on “digital social work” will help to deepen and promote the understanding of digital transformation among social work educators, researchers, and practitioners. Through expert discussions, proposal writing, multiple rounds of feedback, and co-signing, this article reached a consensus on three key aspects: the definition, significance and challenges, and development recommendations for digital social work. The definition highlights the use of information and communication technology in social work, while also emphasizing the significant impacts and challenges which digital social work poses for service recipients, social workers, direct services, service organizations, education and training, and the profession itself. Lastly, the article provides recommendations for the future development of digital social work, including the co-construction of infrastructure, the development of service models, strengthening discipline-building, revising ethical standards, and creating theoretical frameworks.

Multisubject collaboration is an effective approach for connecting urban renewal and community governance. As emerging components of community governance, social work and social design share similarities in service beneficiaries, professional concepts, and professional openness, which facilitate their cross-integration and mutual learning in the governance process. Taking the Caojiaxiang community of Chengdu as an example, this paper constructs a dual-discipline collaborative governance model of “social work and social design” from the perspectives of dynamic mechanisms, structural elements, and collaborative processes. It also summarizes the influencing factors and characteristics of the dual-discipline collaborative governance model. The two-discipline collaborative governance of “social work and social design” arises from the interaction of various structural elements driven by power and produces synergistic effects through a multi-level collaborative process of “knowledge dialogue-vision integration-system formation”. Its synergistic effect is affected by the functional capacities of other stakeholders, institutional settings, and others. The synergistic characteristics underscore the discipline-specific traits, the equal status between the two disciplines, and their respective professional advantages.

Clarifying the research status, summarizing research hotspots, and identifying trends in social work practice research in China can provide valuable theoretical insights for the research and development of social work practice in China’s New Era. Using the literature visualization tool CiteSpace, this research examines 1,182 core literature in social work practice research from CSSCI journals between 1998 to 2023. The analysis encompasses the overview of the publications and the collaborative landscape among core authors and research institutions in this field. Keyword co-occurrence maps, cluster maps, and mutation word information maps are drawn to examine the hot topics and main themes in the field, as well as to predict future research trends. The findings indicate that social work practice research in China characterized by “high concentration and low dispersion”, highlighting the significant role played by core authors and research groups in this field; The primary focus of the field center around five modules: practical social work, professional construction, social governance, values and ethics, and theoretical foundations. It is predicted that future research will continue to contribute to rural revitalization strategies, ecological environment care, community governance community construction, government procurement of services, and grassroots governance. However, improvements are needed in several areas: the level of collaboration and diversity among authors and institutions need to be enhanced; further research on the integration of innovative technologies in social work practices is necessary; policy research related to practice needs to be further developed.

The revitalization of child-friendly communities is not only an important measure of community social work practice, but also a practical mapping of the theoretical model of community social work. The revitalization of child-friendly communities is not only different from the space-planning path advocated by the rational-based social planning model, but also different from the space-power path advocated by the regional development model that emphasizes residents’ participation, and it is also different from the space-service path advocated by the community care model that emphasizes service provision. In practice, the revitalization of child-friendly communities follows the integrated practice logic based on the community field. This integrated practice logic is oriented to the problems in the community field, upholds people-oriented values, emphasizes the participatory cooperation of multiple subjects, pays attention to rational design of children’s activity space, institutional guarantee of children’s rights, and professional supply of children’s services. This integration model needs to establish a “child-centered” value concept, to implement the methodological principle of community-based, to comprehensively use the practice strategy of pluralism.

Five grief group counseling sessions were conducted for six college students from S University in Guangdong Province to evaluate the effectiveness, therapeutic factors, and intervention mechanism of the grief counseling group-based intervention for bereaved college students. Results showed that group-based grief counseling interventions can, to some extent, help members regulate their grief emotions, deepen their understanding of life, enhance their social support during grief, and assist them in reconstructing the meaning of life. The intervention mechanism includes the following four aspects: using arts to provide a non-verbal communication channel; promoting life awareness through group expression; facilitating social support for grief through interpersonal interaction; and encouraging the expression of the meaning of life through contemplation of bereavement. To assist bereaved students go through the grieving stage smoothly, colleges and universities need to pay more attention to bereaved students, carry out grief counseling groups reasonably, incorporate specialized life education courses into the compulsory curriculum, enhance students’ understanding of life and death, and promote awareness of end-of-life care and advance directives.

Taking 12 domestic public health emergencies as samples, based on the three-dimensional linkage analysis framework of “government media public”, this paper empirically analyzes the influencing factors of government information disclosure in public health emergencies and their complex causal logic relationships by using the qualitative comparative analysis method (QCA). The research shows that six single conditional variables, such as technical level, official cognition, communication channel, media responsibility, public sentiment, and public demand, are not enough to constitute the necessary conditions for government information disclosure in public health emergencies, which is the result of the combination of multiple conditions; Further configuration analysis found that efficient and transparent government information disclosure includes three key condition configuration paths: technology enabled, media driven and multi effect. Based on this, suggestions are put forward to optimize the government information disclosure in public health emergencies in the future from the aspects of changing the governance concept, activating the science and technology engine, and improving public opinion recognition.

With the rapid development of digital technologies such as artificial intelligence, urban communities in China are facing the dual dilemma of lagging governance model and low governance efficiency. The community ’s “intelligent governance” model has become an effective way to solve these dilemmas by integrating advanced digital technology and intelligent management methods to achieve efficient and accurate governance of community affairs. Through government guidance, market assistance and social participation, the community of Jiunanhai County in Guangzhou has built a system of intelligent security, intelligent fire protection and intelligent medical care, and realized the intelligent transformation of old communities. Based on the concept, mechanism and mode of “intelligent governance” in the community of Jiunanhai County, this paper constructs a theoretical model of multi-governance, and puts forward that strengthening scientific and technological support, promoting multi-governance and ensuring residents’ dominance are the practical paths to realize “intelligent governance” in the community.

Drawing on 1,813 papers on volunteer motivation published in CNKI between 2003 to 2023, this study employs CiteSpace to conduct bibliometric and visualization analyses. By using bibliometric methods and visualization techniques, it draws knowledge maps such as high-frequency keyword clusters to analyze the current situation, hotspots, and development trends of volunteer incentive research in China. The findings reveal a rapid increase in publications over the past two decades, with research predominantly focusing on youth volunteers. Core themes include the sustainable development of volunteer behavior, incentive mechanisms, and policy support. It shows characteristics such as diversified research objects, localized research themes, and research content closely linked to contemporary hotspots. Future studies in this field focus on exploring differentiated incentive measures for volunteers, improving the support system for volunteer services, and building a collaborative incentive system.

Policy diffusion has always been a key component of grassroots governance. How to promote and speed up policy diffusion is directly related to the governance abilities of grassroots governments. However, research shows that the diffusion of grassroots government policies is affected by administrative pressure and diffusion pressure. When the diffusion of grassroots government policies is squeezed by these two types of pressure simultaneously, it often faces choices regarding which pressure to prioritize. Through the case study of Community L, this study explores the strategic logic of the implementation of policy diffusion by the grassroots government in the squeezing diffusion context. This study found that the squeezing diffusion is mainly caused by the grassroots government’s “commitment” to the superior government and the lack of civil discourse. Therefore, it is necessary to pay attention to the perception of pressure and the dispersion of pressure in the process of policy diffusion. To effectively promote the diffusion of grassroots government policies and finally achieve the purpose of policy implementation.

The township (street) social work station is an important measure for promoting grassroots social governance, implementing the rural revitalization strategy, and providing livelihood services at “the last meter”. However, due to the unclear positioning, the construction and operation of township (street) social work stations are currently ineffective. Therefore, there is an urgent need to research on the construction of township (street) social work stations, clarify their roles, and refine their operational modes. In this study, we analyzed four social work stations in towns and townships (streets) of N city. Data were collected through in-depth interviews and analyzed by case comparison method. A “three-dimensional role” model based on “administration-supervisor-service” that covers administrative, supervisory, and service roles. This study aims to clarify the role of social work stations, and explore their service model to provide a local model for the nationwide construction and development of social work stations.

As people turn to nostalgia more frequently to ease anxiety and combat uncertainty, social work services are increasingly focusing on the use of nostalgia therapy. Based on the historical origin and application of nostalgia therapy, social work and nostalgia therapy are expected to further achieve integrated development. Social work not only needs to flexibly use the four service modes of narrative nostalgia, instrumental nostalgia, transitive nostalgia and integrative nostalgia, but also needs to follow the practical framework and action steps of style matching, contextual linking, memory redemption, narrative deconstruction, identity reconstruction and support allegory, and grasp the core technologies of aesthetic matching, nostalgia anchoring, space-time metaphor and life story.

For a long time, Social workers have pursued the purpose of “life on life”. That is, social workers enter the life of clients with an understanding of life and bring about changes. But under the orientation of positivism, social workers only pay attention to clients and cannot take care of their own life status in reality. This contradiction has triggered the issue of “self care” in social work. Through a critical understanding of “self care”, the author puts forward the social work turn of “life care”, which refers to Frankl’s thought of life meaning, tries to build a framework of creating a work narrative, experiencing truth, kindness, and love, and meeting suffering with empathy. Finally, it is suggested that the content of “life care” should be integrated into the professional education curriculum.

Case management plays a positive role in the rehabilitation of patients with severe mental disorders in the community, especially in reducing the rate of disease recurrence and improving the quality of life. Qualitative research was used to conduct in-depth interviews with 11 case managers to understand the problems and solutions of case management for local patients with severe mental disorders. The study found that there are some problems in the case management of local patients with severe mental disorders, such as lack of operational norms, lack of service capacity and lack of support system for case managers and lack of deployable resources, training, and supervision. Therefore, it is necessary to establish a case management service standard for local patients with severe mental disorders, improve the service ability of the case management team, and establish a support system for the case management team in multiple ways so as to do a good job in the case management of local patients with severe mental disorders and promote the rehabilitation of patients with severe mental disorders.

Intergenerational and intragenerational differences in caregiving affect the quality of caregiving and patients’ quality of life. Based on the framework of social development theory, this study analyzes 19 offspring caregivers and 10 spouse caregivers, examines the characteristics and causes of intergenerational caregiving differences, and puts forward countermeasures and suggestions. Intergenerational caregiving differences have developed and formed explanatory factors in the changes of care concepts and care systems. Intergenerational caregiving differences with dementia are reflected in three levels: emotional and recognition conflicts, treatment awareness, and care mode selection. The evolving self-strength improves the quality of caregiving through scientific caregiving with the concept and the culture of care. Social services for the elderly provide caregiving to make up for the lack of support in family caregiving. The integration of the caregivers’ self-strength and social service strength in social development forms intergenerational caregiving differences. The combination of the two can better provide services for patients with dementia. Facing intergenerational caregiving differences can also provide a better path for caregiving services.

The scientific assessment of the implementation characteristics and effectiveness of family policies in China is essential to improving their applicability. Using content analysis, we constructed a three-dimensional framework of “policy instruments-policy objectives-governance subjects” to analyze the family policy texts issued by the central government from 1987 to 2021. We explored the typological characteristics, evolutionary trajectories, value tendencies, and inherent shortcomings of family policy instruments in China. The findings are as follows: Firstly, in terms of policy instruments, family policies in China exhibit characteristics such as a predominance of authoritative tools and capacity-building tools, uneven use of motivational and persuasive tools, and a shortage of systemic change tools. Secondly, in terms of policy objectives, family policies focus mainly on child development, work-family balance, and assistance for special families. There was a lack of attention to elderly care and housing security, and there is a phenomenon of distinguishing between ordinary and special families. Thirdly, in terms of governance subjects, family policies are primarily government-led, neglecting social participation. The coupling of policy instruments with social organizations is relatively low. Therefore, it is suggested that, firstly, the precision of family policy tools should be improved, and the combined effect should be optimized. Secondly, the coupling between family policy instruments and governance subjects should be improved with the guidance of multi-faceted shared governance. Finally, the policy objectives should be reasonably planned to achieve family welfare growth.

Public trust is the support for the operation of charities. A series of trust repair measures should be taken to achieve the public trust repair after trust violation. Charities have a variety of specific trust repair strategies under trust violation and can also establish different types of trust repair strategy combinations. However, the impacts of trust repair strategies on repair results are mainly produced indirectly through public psychological factors such as attribution mechanism, emotional responses, public perception, etc. At the same time, the impacts of trust repair strategies on repair results may be different due to different situational factors, such as charities’ characteristics, Chinese traditional culture and institutional environment, and public individuals’ characteristics. Therefore, charities under trust violation should formulate better trust repair strategies to promote public trust repair, and should pay more attention to the impacts of strategies on public psychology and improve the pertinence of strategies to different situations to improve the effects of trust repair.

The Chinese-style modernisation provides the theoretical basis, epistemological premises, methodological guidelines and value cornerstones for the development of social work in China. Chinese-style modeization has important epistemological and methodological values in promoting the localization of social work and realizing the theoretical consciousness and theoretica confidence of social work in China.In this new era, the development of social work should be based on Chinese practice, keeping pace with the times，reinforcing the main idea and demonstrating confidence and tolerance,in addition ,put into practice the great practice of socialism with Chinese characteristics, to promote the excellent Chinese tradition and culture, to answer the questions of the times, and ultimately to build a Chinese social work discourse and knowledge system.In conclusion, the new Chinese-style social work is people-oriented, with the goal of common prosperity and a vision of a better life. It will promote the building of a community of human destiny in a way that the people build, govern and share together.

In the practice of primary-level governance, experiences such as the organizational framework of party structure embedded in the community, the mobilization of endogenous forces in the community, and the external supply of social charity resources have been formed. However, due to factors such as the path dependence of omnipotent governance, the effectiveness of the Linkage of Five Elements has not been fully utilized. Therefore, it is urgent to promote the improvement of the primary-level governance mechanism of the Linkage of Five Elements from the aspects of government hierarchy system, social voluntary participation, community consultation platform, and residents’ subjective awareness.

With the deepening evolution of modern society and the accelerated exposure of various types of social risks, countries around the world have had to face the enormous pressure of conflict management in an era of high risk. At the new stage of development, China has seen an increase in the number of social contradictions and risk challenges, and social conflicts have become more frequent, trivial and routine, making it more difficult to prevent and control conflicts. The previous mainstream model of rigid conflict control through vertical constraints has encountered the paradoxical dilemma of high cost and low effectiveness, and there is an urgent need for innovation in conflict governance. Breaking the traditional path dependence and introducing professional social forces to intervene in social conflict governance can help increase the resilience of conflict governance. On the basis of examining the coupling between social work and conflict governance, the basic paradigm of conflict social work is constructed in two dimensions, namely, theoretical and behavioral, with Engels' theory of historical synergy as the theoretical basis, the four quadrants of conflict as the perspective of the problem, and conflict transformation as the practical direction.

With the need for localization and specialization, embeddedness and autonomy have become the two fundamental strategies for the development of social work in China. Autonomy is proposed to reconcile the tension between structure and action under the embeddedness strategy, and it further give rise to practice research in social work. Drawing upon the postmodern theories of social work practice research and the four main explanatory frameworks in China, the paper finds identifies two primary similarities among the explanatory frameworks: First, they all emphasize the positive significance of practical experience in knowledge production; Second, they all recognize the research status of practitioners in the academic division of labor. However, the research on social work practice has not yet formed a basic research consensus, and the research still stays at the epistemological interpretation level, leading to the core issues and research boundaries of social work practice research,research are ambiguous. Therefore, the future direction of social work practice research should establish the basic research category with the development of consciousness in academic community.

Residents’ organized participation in urban community public services can effectively address the challenges posed by disorderly and sporadic participation. This article explores factors that influence residents’ organized participation in urban community public service. Adopting constructivist grounded theory, this research identifies 11 factors, including subject value identification and subject participation ability. The 11 factors are then classified into three dimensions, including subject attributes, subject interaction channels, and service composition. By learning their interconnections, this research further reveals the mechanisms through which these influencing factors affect residents’ organized participation. The article further proposes that policy innovations are needed to promote residents’ organized participation in urban community public services through strengthening multiple subject participation forces based on subject attributes, constructing and developing channels for resident organized subject interaction, and enriching community public service types.

Through three iterations of social work practice courses, the method of educational action research is used to continuously refine the teaching content and explore ways to enhance students’ knowledge transformation. The findings suggest that students’ knowledge transformation is characterized by the strengthening of beliefs, the accumulation of practical experience, and the reconstruction of personal values. Students navigate various processes during their knowledge transformation, including addressing practice challenges, reflecting on their practices, engaging in discussions centered on practice, and developing practical guidelines. This process encompasses from activating and reconstructing theoretical knowledge to constructing and generating, externalizing and sharing, as well as internalizing and integrating practical knowledge. It also highlights the importance of establishing good relationships between participants in the educational setting to facilitate this transformation process.

In the context of community “voluntary failure”, “weak participation” of residents, and the mismatch between the supply of voluntary services and the actual dynamic demand, the innovation of the community voluntary service delivery model has become one of the topics widely concerned by the academic community. Based on the theory of co-production and on the basis of defining the connotation and logic of co-production of community voluntary service, the process mechanism is further revealed from the stages of service initiation, resource link, subject interaction, value creation, evaluation, and feedback. Community voluntary service contains rich characteristics of co-production. In the process of organizing voluntary service, we should change our concept and realize that an open cooperative system is the action framework of co-production of community voluntary service. Multi-agent collaborative production is the direction of development for co-production of community voluntary service, and “service orientation” is an important concept of co-production of community voluntary service. The community residents are not only the recipients and beneficiaries of voluntary service in the process, but also the participants and co-producers of services.

The value of social work stations participating in the modernization of grassroots governance is mainly reflected in the transformation of grassroots service concepts, the reform of service methods, and the achievement of service results. Integrate and draw on the core views of the “asset-based” community development model to promote the two-way integrated development of social work stations and grassroots governance modernization, not only follow the basic principles of policy, professionalism, integrity and effectiveness to do a good job in the construction of social work station platforms and organizations, but also carry out professional practice in accordance with the specific procedures and strategies of "drawing a map of community assets-clarifying the vision of grassroots governance-mobilizing assets inside and outside the community-implementing a series of professional activities-supervising and evaluating the construction of social work station", and using social work stations as the fulcrum to leverage new levers of grassroots service-oriented governance, and Helping realize the cohesive connection of grassroots governance.

China’s mandatory reporting system for child protection was established relatively late, and research on this system has yet to develop a clear framework. This article adopts the evidence-based method of systematic review to select, include and analyze Chinese research literature, aiming to outline the characteristics and orientations of existing studies on China’s mandatory reporting system for child protection. Through this systematic review, the paper identifies four primary orientations in China’s research regarding the mandatory reporting system: policy improvement, reporting mechanisms, theoretical linkage, and case identification. Additionally, through an in-depth analysis of each orientation, we propose four research initiatives for China’s mandatory child protection reporting system, including the development of a multidisciplinary theoretical framework, a shift towards localisation-oriented policy research, an expansion of research on the identification of the situation of each reporting subject, and an exploration of reporting mechanism at the social level.