The purpose of this paper is to explore how social work education for child welfare professionals in the United States can be used to inform the Chinese social work curriculum. The recent proliferation of social work education programs in China may be encouraging news to child welfare scholars, but the infrastructure needed to develop a professionalized child welfare work force in China remains lacking. In the United States, social work education for child welfare professionals is supported by Title IV-E funding, which is consistent with the prevailing philosophy that workers with social work education achieve better outcomes for maltreated children than do those without social work degrees. The authors of this article conducted a recent evaluation of public child welfare workers' performance in the state of Texas, which substantiates this belief. Results from this study are presented along with a discussion of how Chinese social work scholars might apply the conclusions to improve child welfare in China.

本文會探索如何利用培訓美國兒童福利工作者的社會工作教育推動中國社會工作課程設計。對於兒童福利學者來說, 最近社會工作教育在中國得到蓬勃的發展是一個令人鼓舞的信息, 但是中國仍缺乏培育專業兒童福利工作者的配套結構。一直以來, 美國的社會保障法IV-E屬下的基金資助兒童福利專業工作者接受社會工作教育, 而這是符合及響應主流理念:與沒有社會工作學位的員工相比, 曾接受專業社會工作教育的工作者能為缺乏照顧的兒童爭取更好的結果。作者最近曾評估德克薩斯州政府兒童福利工作者的表現, 得出相同的結果。除了發表該評估的成果外, 本文會一同探討中國社會工作學者如何使用該評估的結論, 改善中國的兒童福利。

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