The participation of social work in community governance involves serving the disadvantaged groups and promoting community development, but there are always conflict and tension between the two aspects in practice. Taking the six-year service experience of B Street Social Work Station in Guangzhou City as an example, this study takes action research to show how professional social service can play an active role in community service. It also takes capacity building theory to guide professional practice, so as to achieve the integration of service groups and community development. In the end, this paper summarizes the stages of community capacity building, and the issues of service governance, capacity building dimensions and the social work action strategies corresponding to different stages. This paper illustrates the integration advantages of choosing community capacity building theory as a framework, which helps to dissolve the tensions between integration goals, between fields, between theory and practice, between subjects, and between actions and structures. Community practice of social work has the dual characteristics of group service and community development. In essence, it is the dynamic balance and organize integration of community development and service groups.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

There’s high emotional involvement in social workers’ labor process. However, domestic studies on social workers’ emotional labor is far from enough, while existing overseas studies focus on the client-worker relationship. In the professional social work practice, the emotional labor of this group is shown as a conflicting emotional experience that is caused by the mixture of stress and gain, the diverse emotional management that consists of surface acting with “inertia” and “fuzziness” and deep acting based on the professional value and guideline, and emotional adjustment social workers tend to conduct through body techniques, cognitive techniques and social techniques. Exploring the complexity of social workers’ emotional labor can help eliminate what people “take for granted”. Meanwhile, it enlightens us to consider how to promote self-care, organizational care and policy care in social work.

The mechanism of the “Linkage of Five Elements in the community” has been integrated into the development of social work stations, playing a crucial role in innovating grassroots social governance. This study investigates optimization pathways for collaborative governance within this framework through a case study approach grounded in collaborative governance theory, drawing on empirical data from social work station practices in Zhejiang Province, China. Research has found that the development of resources related to the “Linkage of Five Elements in the community” follows a structred pattern. The collaborative governance of the mechanism of “Five Elements Linkage” unfolds in three sequential phases: “forming governance concepts”, “constructing governance mechanisms”, and “improving governance effectiveness”. These phases are characterized by platform-based integration, localized adaptation, and professionalization, with vertical-horizontal synergies facilitating multi-agent coordination. However, challenges persist, including tensions between service objectives and implementation processes, inadequate resource mobilization and inter-agent collaboration, limited capacity for sustainable synergy, and insufficient professionalization. To address these issues, the study proposes optimization strategies that emphasize motivational alignment, endogenous capacity-building, and institutional restructuring. Furthermore, it highlights the necessity of leveraging the Party-government leadership to empower stakeholders, foster consensus-driven goals, and catalyze collective action. Ultimately, this framework aims to enhance service quality and activate community endogenous vitality, offering both theoretical and practical insights for refining collaborative governance models in grassroots social innovation contexts.

In recent years, domestic violence has been so severe that it not only causes the injuries of the victims, but also has serious impact on children witnesses who are exposed to family violence in the long term. Children who witness domestic violence can learn violent behavior through observation, imitation, reinforcement, and rationalization. There is also a tendency that domestic violence in the biological families will affect their own families when they grow up, forming the intergenerational transmission of domestic violence. In general, foreign scholars emphasize the theoretical research and empirical analysis. Through case study,comparison, contrast,and follow-up survey, they find that witness children may get post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and pass the abuse pattern to the next generation, and offer quantitative criteria for the effectiveness of interventions for witness children. Through clinical trials and inductive analysis, Chinese scholars find witness children may have problems in physiological, psychological and cognitive behaviors, and notice the possible violence acquisition mechanism among witness children. However, there are still some limitations, such as few studies were about children who witness domestic violence and interpretation of professional appraisal and intervention is insufficient, with no summary that is comparatively systematic and comprehensive. In future, research emphasis should be put on strengthening theoretical analysis, exploring intervention model and deepening of indigenized researches.

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.

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.

Bereavement is a major traumatic event for children, and bereaved children will face arduous adaptation tasks. Studies have shown that not only children who have difficulty adapting after bereavement, but all children who have lost their parents will benefit from some time-limited interventions. This study adopted the Scoping Review proposed by Arksey and O’Malley and searched 3 domestic electronic databases and 5 foreign English electronic databases. Some problems are discovered after standard screening and extraction: intervention services for bereaved children, few as they are, mainly focus on individual cases and group interventions, failing to establish a sharing and inter-linked service mechanism. Most of relative studies rely on individual cases, which lack design and tools for scientific and rigorous evaluation and long-term return visits. On the other hand, overseas studies on intervention services have developed into a scientific system, which is characterized by multiple types of intervention, interdisciplinary groupwork and scientific paradigm. In conclusion, it is suggested that under the current domestic conditions intervention services for bereaved children should be incorporated into the child welfare service system. Besides, an effective mechanism should be established utilizing the characteristics of local culture and the advantages of professional social work and combining preventive and therapeutic intervention strategies to render service and help tomore bereaved children.

The Productivity Factor Theory emphasizes that qualitative changes in the labor force, means of production, and objectives of labor are pivotal to augmenting productivity. Based on the theoretical logic of empowering rural revitalization through these three neo-quality productivity elements, this paper systematically analyzes the key constraints encountered in current practices. These constraints primarily manifest as: a deficiency in labor quantity coupled with structural imbalances, a stagnation in technological advancements alongside outdated production materials, and the challenges of digital exclusion and digital detachment faced by labor objects. Building upon this analysis, the study proposes a three-dimensional empowerment pathway: (1) establishing a comprehensive “attracting-cultivating-retaining-utilizing” labor development continuum to enhance human capital; (2) advancing the development of digitalized production systems to modernize production tools; (3) implementing a value-rational regulatory ethical framework for resource development to optimize the utilization of labor objects. This tripartite approach aims to systematically address existing constraints while promoting sustainable rural development through coordinated advancement of productivity elements.

How to reduce internalizing problems caused by academic stress for Chinese high school students? Previous research was not comprehensive enough in identifying potential moderator variables between academic stress and internalizing problems, so it is difficult to develop accurate intervention targets for social work practice. Therefore, a systematic review can be used to carry out a comprehensive and science-based evaluation of previous studies, and a ranking system is developed to identify and rank moderators concerning their importance. A total of 19 moderating variables have been identified by researchers. The ranking results show that the effect of six significant moderators including interpersonal relationship, gender, grade, family relationship, school environment and resilience decreases in turn. From the theoretical perspective of the biopsychosocial model, it can further explain the mechanism of moderating effects and bring great enlightenment to future social work interventions and research.

Affective governance is a response to innovative grassroots governance strategies, with grassroots cadres serving as crucial agents in enhancing the quality and efficiency of grassroots governance. Drawing on ethnographic research on the old tree retention incident in Y village, this study integrates its analysis into a logical framework that examines the behaviors of grassroots cadres through the lens of affective governance, situating it within a realistic context. At the level of evidence-based practice, the concept of affective governance is elucidated through the admission, promotion, and application of emotional discourses, rituals, and support—elements that collectively shape a rationalized schema of affective governance. Extending into the realms of emotional habitus, grassroots cadres navigate the tension between “facts” and “feelings”, placing greater emphasis on personal connections, relationships, and appropriateness. By skillfully balancing between personal connections, relationships and appropriateness, affective governance can effectively promote the regeneration of positive emotions and build a harmonious grassroots society.

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.

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.

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.

With the further implementation of government's sponsor of social work service, development of social work evaluation is bound for professionalization. However, the method and process of current social work program evaluation is presented in general and universal discourses, covering all aspects of evaluation while lacking in specificity. This paper focuses on the evaluation method and process for social work intervention program, specifically discusses the method and process in the formulation of evaluation plan for social work intervention program, its execution, evaluation report and ethics, offering a reference for social work agencies and evaluators.

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.

Grid governance is an important way of grassroots social governance in the new period. From the perspective of empowerment theory, this study mainly analyzes the participation logic and practical dilemma of multiple subjects in the grid governance of urban grass-roots communities. At the individual level, the empowerment is mainly reflected in the independent participation of grid residents, at the organizational level, the focus of the empowerment is the two-way embeddedness of the government and social organizations, and at the community level, the empowerment is mainly expressed in the participation and cooperation of multiple subjects. However, due to the strong administrative attribute of grid governance, there are still some inevitable endogenous problems in the empowerment of “individuals, organizations and communities”, which mainly include: the lack of substantive participation and widening of group differences; the lack of authority and sociality of social organizations; formulation and administrative tendency of grid governance. Therefore, it is the practical direction of grassroots social governance in the future to strengthen the empowerment of grid governance and continue to promote the transformation of grid governance to “network governance”.

The core objective of empowering elderly care services through intelligent assistive technology lies in achieving both precision and humanization of care by reconstructing service delivery via technological mediation. At its essence, this transformation represents a dynamic balance between algorithmic power and human-centered values. The evolutionary trajectory of technological logic indicates that while the integration of Internet of Things (IoT) architectures and multimodal sensing systems can enhance service efficiency, it also gives rise to emerging legal risks—such as the substantive failure of informed consent mechanisms due to cognitive decline in the elderly, the privacy threats posed by pervasive surveillance technologies, and the difficulty in identifying clear legal responsibility among actors. In response, legal regulation must construct a dual-adjustment mechanism of “technology-adapted law” and “law-guided technology”: on the operational level, a layered informed consent framework for aging populations should be established, with simplified interfaces and strengthened algorithmic interpretation rights to safeguard decision autonomy; in the data governance dimension, a dynamic “right to be forgotten” system should be introduced, along with innovative “machine forgetting” technical standards to ensure control over the data lifecycle. In terms of legal responsibility, a multi-layered legal responsibility system should be constructed, with a “responsibility chain allocation mechanism” based on technological processes and a “gradient responsibility system for risk sharing” to allocate liability proportionate to the ability to control risks and the benefits accrued.

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.

The assessment of policy effectiveness has focused on measuring the extent to which the overall policy goals have been achieved. Guided by the theoretical model of policy goal achievement evaluation, this paper establishes an index system that integrates both factual data and value-based criteria to evaluate policy effectiveness and identify influencing factors. This paper adopts the multi-dimensional evaluation method which includes eight key dimensions: benefit, efficiency, adequacy, economy, fairness, responsiveness, appropriateness and stability. Data were collected through questionnaire survey and expert interview in Gansu and Shaanxi provinces. The analytic hierarchy process was used to determine the weight of indicators, while the fuzzy comprehensive evaluation method quantified the policy effect. The results show that the overall effectiveness of the policy is high, especially in terms of adequacy and benefit, while f responsiveness and fairness demonstrate lower performance. Disparities exist between urban and rural areas as well as regional differences. Further analysis of the factors influencing policy effectiveness, employing the Horn-Mitter model, revealed that policy objectives and standards, resources, implementation and intervention, and environmental conditions significantly affect outcomes. The research shows that policy implementation and intervention are the core of policy effectiveness, while policy standards and objectives play a “baton” role. It is recommended that policymakers prioritize fairness and responsiveness in future policy formulations, and enhance urban-rural and regional equity to batter meet the needs of the elderly.

As the number of bereaved parents is on the rise in China, it is worth investigating their social adaptation. Through long-term field interviews and follow-up researches, it is discovered that their adaption dilemma is not only rooted in structural factors and connected with individual agency, but also contains abundant cultural and psychological elements. They are generally suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and somatization disorder, cultural trauma, situational ritual disruption, social role confusion and alienation from acquaintance. On this basis, this paper proposes to adopt casework, group work and community work to help them adjust their self-cognition and social identifications, integrate the internal function building of their self-organizations and improve the service supply capacity of community agencies. All these methods will be utilized to resolve their adaptation dilemma and help them reintegrate into the society.

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.

With accelerated social transformation and disintegration of workunit system, traditional policing has become unable to meet the needs of the development in current social management. Thus, enhancing community policing has become a necessity to the innovation of social management. As a pioneer in carrying out the strategy of community policing in China, Shangcheng District in Hangzhou has achieved a series of innovations in community policing in recent years. Community policing has achieved socialization, informationization, meshing and specialization, which has implications for current management of community policing.

Community workers constitute a pivotal force in community governance, and practical dilemmas in their professionalization process directly impede the enhancement of grassroots social governance capacity. Employing participant observation and in-depth interviews, this study investigates the professional dilemmas encountered by certified community workers and their corresponding coping strategies against the backdrop of intertwined administrative and professional demands. The findings reveal that under the interplay of dual institutional logics, the professional dilemmas of these workers manifest in three dimensions: decision-making conflicts, role conflicts, and practice conflicts. Specifically, they grapple with balancing limited energy against multiple demands, confront ambiguities in their positioning between administrative and professional roles, and encounter disjunctions between professional knowledge and practical operations. In response to these challenges, certified community workers have developed four types of coping strategies: situational adaptation, integrative coordination, defensive adjustment, and relational mobilization. These strategies not only enable them to maintain efficient and stable work performance in complex institutional contexts but also reflect how the dual tensions between administrative requirements and professional practice shape their professional experiences. Future research on relevant topics should prioritize examining the work experiences and dilemmas of frontline community workers in complex institutional environments, with a view to enhancing the overall effectiveness of community governance.

As an extension of traditional trade in the era of digital economy, digital trade has a deepening impact on China’s economic development and income distribution pattern. Based on the panel data of 250 prefecture-level cities from 2014 to 2022, this paper discusses whether the development of local digital trade can advance the goal of common prosperity. The study reveals that the development of digital trade significantly enhances the level of common prosperity, particularly in densely populated regions. Analyzing the mechanisms of influence, the research indicates that digital trade fosters common prosperity by facilitating the transformation and upgrading of the industrial structure, promoting the development of rural industry and bolstering the employment opportunities in the tertiary industry. Further analysis uncovers a spillover effect whereby the benefits of digital trade extend to surrounding areas, reflecting a “those having got prosperous first to help others to catch up” dynamic at the prefecture level. Therefore, this paper advocates for the coordinated development of regional digital trade, the enhancement of the level of openness to the outside, the improvement of the digital infrastructure, and the inclusion of a broader array of economic entities in the digital trade ecosystem. Such initiatives are posited to facilitate a virtuous cycle of regional economic development and a steady progression toward common prosperity, driven by the advancements in digital trade.

This paper reviewed and summarized the relevant researches of the disabled people in China in the period of'12^thFive-Year Plan' period from the following aspects: journal articles, academic monographs, research projects and academic carriers. And it analyzed the development trend of study on disability from the five aspects，namely the transformation of the research values, the development and evolvement of paradigm on quantitative research method, extension and enrichment of research content of the field, microcosmic development and specification of the research perspective, exploration and practice on the mode of discipline construction and personnel training. On this basis, it put forward the future research field of disabled people in China, which includes the well-off, poverty, housing, education for the disabled and theoretical system for the disability.

Drawing on the data from the “Chinese Social Survey 2023”, this study utilizes the Ordinary Least Squares regression (OLS regression) to dissect the influence of internet usage frequency on the volunteer service participation of the grey-haired group. The research findings demonstrate that, in general, the participation rates of the grey-haired group in volunteer services are comparatively low, and the varieties of volunteer services are restricted in China. Notably, the frequency of internet usage exhibits a significant positive correlation with the grey-haired group’s volunteer service participation, which means that the more frequently they use the internet, the higher their level of engagement in volunteer services. In addition, social capital can also have a marked and positive impact on the grey-haired group’s volunteer service participation. However, it does not serve as a mediator between internet usage and engagement in voluntary services. Consequently, initiatives aimed at promoting active aging, enhancing the digital literacy of the grey-haired group and optimizing the internet’s transformative potential in relation to the grey-haired group’s social capital are crucial for facilitating the grey-haired group’s participation in volunteer services.

In China, to modernize community governance is always part of state-governance modernization. Meanwhile, Community Governance Group with shared responsibility facilitates the modernization of state governance system and capability through its mobilization, organization and development. Embodied in the modernization of community governance are not only the integration of China in modernization but also the local features and innovation of Community Governance Group with shared responsibility. It is a core feature of community governance modernization with Chinese characteristics.

Based on the 2020 Chinese Family Panel Survey (CFPS) data, latent class analysis is used to identify the types of inter-generational support in urban and rural families, and OLS regression is used to analyze the impacts of inter-generational support types on the depression of urban and rural adolescents. It is found that: there is a significant difference in the depression levels between urban and rural adolescents, the depression level of rural adolescents is higher than that of urban adolescents, especially reflecting in hard work, happiness, joy and sadness factors; there is no significant difference in the depression levels between rural left-behind adolescents and non-left-behind adolescents; there are two types of inter-generational support in urban and rural families, named as “alienation and weak function” (35.17%) and “intimity and strong function” (64.83%); there is no significant difference in the types of inter-generational support between urban and rural teenagers, rural left-behind adolescents and non-left-behind adolescents; the types of inter-generational support only have a significant impact on the depression of rural adolescents, inter-generational support of “alienation and weak function” has an inhibitory effect, while inter-generational support of “ intimity and strong function” has an enhancement effect, especially reflecting in low mood and hard life factors; there is obvious difference in the impacts of inter-generational support types on the depression between rural left-behind adolescents and non-left-behind adolescents, inter-generational support of “alienation and weak function” has an inhibitory effect on the depression of rural left-behind adolescents, while inter-generational support of “ intimity and strong function” has an inhibitory effect on the depression of rural non-left-behind adolescents, especially reflecting in low mood, hard work and sadness factors.

Based on the qualitative research method and the perspective of rights, the paper analyzes the problems and causes in the current inclusive education of special children through literature review and case interviews.It finds that the lack of support system of inclusive education for special children is the main reason that leads to the cognitive lag, the weak supply of specialization and the lack of linkage mechanism.In order to ensure the realization of the welfare right to education for special children, building multivariate support system should be guided by the concept of "excellent service, promoting development and sharing" and efforts should be made in the families’ capacity-building, professional service supply and effective linkage mechanism construction.

With the continuous expansion of government-funded social work services, social work is emerging as a vital professional force in social governance, garnering increasing attention from both the government and society. A significant challenge confronting the field is how to evaluate the professionalism and effectiveness of its services scientifically. The CIPP model, known for its systematic, comprehensive, and improvement-oriented approach, is particularly suited for evaluating social work projects. This study employs the CIPP model to evaluate the rural childcare program of Institution H, integrating the Delphi method to construct an evaluation index system that supplements and optimizes the existing framework. Through assessments of the project’s context, input, process, and outcomes, the study provides improvement recommendations, such as increasing the budget for enhancing social workers’ professional capabilities, deepening needs assessments, prioritizing service quality, refining service plans, and improving supervision efficiency. To refine and optimize the social work evaluation system, it is crucial to establish a feedback-oriented evaluation mechanism, emphasize the professional development of social work, and shift from audit-focused evaluations to empowerment-based assessments. This approach ensures the dual objectives of performance evaluation and professional growth, ultimately achieving “improvement through evaluation” and “correction through evaluation.”

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.

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.