The relationship between theory and practice in social work has increasingly shown a trend toward “psychotherapy”. Coupled with the commonly used “Cartesian” epistemology, the scholars always tend to believe that human behavior is largely determined by the rational thinking of individuals. So the thinking of social work educators focuses on rational thinking at the individual level. This framework of thinking treats knowledge as a text or proposition that can be systematically processed and constructed. As long as the proposition is sorted out methodically, it can meet the needs of practice and teaching. Especially for practice, practitioners can guide their own practical work according to an integral theory and guided “intervention processes”, which is the basis of thinking for the thought that “theory guides practice”. Accordingly, this kind of thinking is too much focused on developing “theory-based reasoning” and neglects “practice-based reasoning”, which leads people only to believe that the former can bring practical effectiveness, but lack criticism of it and understanding of its limitations. Therefore, this paper emphasizes the importance of “practice-based reasoning” in practice, especially the three important requirements of “practice-based reasoning” that practitioners should attach importance to: the “first-person perspective”, the understanding of causality as embodied in “teleology”, and the important connection between “practice-reasoning” and value practice.

As the society becomes increasingly financialized, financial literacy receives more and more attention. Vulnerable groups in the financial society are more vulnerable to financial risks due to information asymmetry and lack of competence, and their resilience is weak. Although China attaches great importance to the financial literacy education of consumers, little attention ia paid to teenagers in this regard. Their financial literacy education is mostly shaped by families, resulting in the current situation of overall low level of financial literacy among teenagers. This study takes financial resilience as the design concept and selects financial risk perception, learning participation and self-efficacy as the intermediary variables. The service content involves four themes: economic resources, financial resources, financial knowledge and behavior, and social capital, and designs intervention programs for the cultivation of adolescents’ financial literacy. At the same time, through the formulation and revision of the intervention manual and the introduction of the intervention research process design, the implementation process of the social work intervention research project is more clearly demonstrated. Of course, whether the above design can effectively improve teenagers’ financial literacy requires further statistical analysis of the data obtained from the intervention to verify and continuously improve the scheme.

In order to contribute to grassroots social governance innovation and achieve common prosperity, social workers and grass-root social organizations have become effective in promoting financial among residents. Financial education, from the perspective of gender and development, follows the principle of empowerment, focuses on contextuality and the subjectivity of service recipients, and links micro and macro, explicit and implicit factors, and individual and structure, in order to grasp the shortcomings and needs of different groups of consumers in terms of financial literacy level. It provides new ideas for categorized education and precise connection, and needs of different groups of consumers, and provide new ideas for categorized education and precise matching. By walking into the life of service recipients, empowerment financial education can tap the real financial needs. It will integrate the financial literacy education with behavior intervention for economic psychology, and cultivate the credit and cultural soft assets of communities; and strengthen the comprehensive effect of financial education empowerment. Through these measures, it will take the reproductive logic of care, cooperation and support into teaching practice,with a view to provide references for the practice of financial social workers.

As a major impetus for modern economic development, finance boosts economic growth while producing a myriad of economic risks. School-based financial education can provide basic financial knowledge, guidelines on financial behavior and foster an excellent financial attitude, thus strengthening individuals’ ability to make the best financial decisions in the future. Therefore, it is regarded as an effective way to improve citizens’ financial literacy. This study conducts a systematic review of 15 intervention projects in terms of children and adolescents’ financial education, of which the contents include researches on financial education application in enriching financial knowledge and improving financial behavior, analyses on key features of the efficient education curriculum design, and discussions on how financial social workers can apply this evidence-based research to the intervention projects in the future. The findings are as follows: Firstly, school-based financial education projects can effectively facilitate adolescents’ financial knowledge and behavior. Secondly, these projects exert a relatively slight impact on children and adolescents’ actual financial behavior. Finally, “experiential learning,” normalized curriculum and teacher training, and home-school integration projects can effectively promote the financial literacy of children and adolescents in primary and secondary school.

Job satisfaction is an important factor affecting staff stability. To build a highly qualified and low turnover civil affairs social work team, it’s significant to analyze the factors in influencing job satisfaction of civil affairs social workers. Based on the data of 2019 China Social Work Longitudinal Study (CSWLS), 572 civil affairs social workers from five regions (East China, Central China, North China, Northeast China and Southwest China) were surveyed about their job satisfaction and the contributing factors under the Job Demands-Resources Model (JD-R Model). The study finds that professional identity, social support and role clarity are positive predictors of job satisfaction. Significantly, role clarity is playing a positive part in mediating the influence of professional identity and social support on job satisfaction. The study concludes that enhanced role clarity, professional identity and social support enable civil affairs social workers to gain more satisfaction with their jobs, further improving the stability and service of civil affairs social work teams.

From the perspective of the development of Party building in social work institutions, this paper puts forward a mode of Party building, namely the postnate-exogenic empowerment mode. Based on “the Data of China Social Work Longitudinal Study in 2019” (CSWLS2019), the authors focus on the current situation and influencing factors of the establishment of the Party building departments in social work institutions, the party building manpower and Party building decisions. It is found that the coverage of Party building in social work institutions is not high. There is a lack of full-time personnel, and the frequency of organizational life is low. Further statistical analysis from the aspects of Party building departments, Party building personnel, and Party building decisions power shows that, first, social work institutions engaged in community services and rescue services are more likely to establish Party building departments. Second, the support (counterpart) funds and policy facilitation provided by the government will increase the possibility for social work institutions to establish Party building departments. The evaluation will increase the possibility for social work institutions to select full-time Party building personnel. Third, social work institutions in some fields have given full play to the role of Party building decisions. Accordingly, the future development of Party building in social work institutions should shift from postnate-exogenic type to starter endogenetic type, and highlight the leading role of Party building in professional services.

With the acceleration of aging, community elderly care service, as an important policy, has attracted the attention of the government. In view of the integration of community work, this research makes a case study on the community elderly care service project in X street, H City. In the process of integrating community elderly care services, social workers, in macroscopic perspective integration policy practice, is facing the tension between the pension service policy and the lack of payment ability of the elderly . In intermediate perspective, elderly care service project faces the conflict between target substitution and vicious competition of institutions. In microcosmic perspective, elderly care services encounter the contradiction of personnel and resource shortage caused by the rapid expansion of institutions. Through the case study, the researchers suggest that social workers should make full use of their professional ability, use the skills of “upward management”, fully integrate the resources inside and outside the community, and strengthen the integrated management between government departments to promote the development of integrated community elderly care services.

The study makes a comparative analysis of the engagement of community-based organizations of three residential districts in Guangzhou and Foshan on community governance in terms of organizational development, cultivating subjects, reasons for participating community governance, community mobilization of resident and the effectiveness of participation. The study finds out that the political capital and social capital from residents,community workers and social organizations cooperate and covert. Hence, community-based organizations undertake the responsibility of both developing political socialization and encouraging citizens’ participation in public affairs. The study concludes that community-based organizations that offer positive guidance can link residents together; the engagement of community-based organizations, which was built on joint contract, on community governance provides the possibility of cultivating residents’ equal participation in community governance. These proactive practices favor the cultivation of public spirit adapted to the modern social developments.

The conspicuous uncertainty and complexity in the age of risk have brought great challenges to community governance. Consolidating community resilience has become a feasible approach in response to risk governance. However, community organizations, the significant momentum in this process, have not paid enough attention to the approach from the perspective of theoretical discussion,or figured out the acute bottlenecks in practice, which undermines their proactive role in community governance. This paper enriches the connotation of the organizational resilience at the community level by referring to the counterpart in enterprise management. Besides, the paper also analyses the obstructions to resilience performance, which community organizations encounter in risk governance. Furthermore, it also proposes strategic suggestions for the optimization of organizational resilience at the community level from the four aspects: under the guidance of Party building, the power should be delegated to primary-level governments; self-organizing ability of the community should be strengthened; community culture should be built up; reflective learning should be advanced. All these suggestions are in an effort to enhance risk governance competence at the level of community and society.