This article discusses the characteristics and the process of in-home and beyond-home social work intervention with young people suffering from social withdrawal in the form of chronic self-seclusion at home. These young people are characterized by their socially avoidant behaviour and are deprived of the enjoyment of legitimate social status as a student, worker or trainee. As a way of confronting this problem, ‘start where the client is’ – an age-old social work intervention principle – can be read in a literal sense, i.e. taking home as a secure place for rapport-building and initial intervention with the clients to pave the way for further intervention beyond the home setting, both online and offline. Drawing on qualitative interviews with youth clients and social workers, it is argued that adopting a flexible, informal and tailor-made approach to working with youth in silent and invisible disengagement from the rest of society has to take into consideration spatial, relational and organizational dimensions of intervention modalities and possibilities if the goal of youth reengagement is to be achieved.

論文旨在討論社會工作的介入模式如何兼顧青年人所身處的家居環境及其以外之空間，以解決社會隱蔽問題對青年造成的困擾。這些青年人長期困於家中，無法享有具社會認受性的社會身份，如學生、雇員或受訓者。社會工作其中一個重要原則就是從案主出發，此亦可閱讀為從案主身處的環境中出發，與案主建立初步信任和工作關系，並以此為基礎，在家居以外的網上及網下空間推展介入工作。論文的質性資料來自於與相關青年案主及社工員的深入訪談。鑒於這群青年人以無聲無跡的方式抽離於社會，若要達到青年重新參與社會的目標，社會工作的介入必須同時考量其空間、人際及機構面向，以開發更具彈性、非正規性及依據案主特性而設的模式及方案。

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