03 social work and why social work
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I got to know something about social work while studying the university bulletin before signing up for the college entrance examination. I found the interesting information listed under the department of sociology and decided to switch my first choice from music to sociology, partly for the reasons of social work courses listed. 我是在報名大專聯考前溜覽東海大學的簡介書的時候才初次接觸到社會工作這回事。我是在社會學系的介紹裡面看到社會工作那些有趣的介紹及學程而使我臨陣把第一志願音樂系改為社會學的。
I started to take courses in social in sophomore, from the introduction to social work to social casework and was fascinated. The social work curricula at Tunghai was first taught by Ms. Hsu-hua Liang followed by Ms. Li-tao Chang, The courses I took was taught by Ms. Chang who just returned from Hawaii University upon receiving MSW degree in 1964 when I was a freshman. 我在大二時開始選修社工概論及個案工作。在東海大學，最初由梁緒華老師開始開社工課程。後來由張驪陶老師接手。我修的課是由在我大一時剛剛從夏威夷取得社工碩士回國的張驪陶小姐教的
After graduation and returning home from military services in the front line on the island of Kim-mn̂g, I applied for a job with the Christian Children's Fund and was accepted. 大學畢業結束在金門島的一年兵役之後我申請並獲得基督教兒童福利基金會的工作。
Christian Children's Fund was the charitable foundation that owned and operated "Kong-im" Orphanage in Taichung. I had chances to visit the orphanage several times in my student days and became acquainted with Rec. Chong-jîn Tân 陳宗仁牧師, who became the chaplain of CCF when I applied for a job. 基督教兒童福利基金會就是經營台中光音育幼院的慈善組織。畢業前，我有機會訪問光音育幼院數次並與當時擔任院牧後來成為會長的的陳宗仁牧師認識。
I started with the new workstation of Family Helper in Kong-san, as a social caseworker, for the Kaohsiung County shortly after the station started functioning. I got to learn to ride the motorcycle there. After three months of commuting from my parents' home in Kaohsiung, I applied for and got the chance to transfer to Taichung Family Helper. 起初我在新成立的岡山家扶中心服務擔任個案工作員，服務高雄縣的家庭。在那裡我學會騎機車。從我父母親在高雄市的家裡跟岡山之間通勤三個月後，我請調並獲得轉到台中家扶中心。
After serving CCF for two years I realized that I need to go abroad to learn more about social work. I got a chance to go to the New School for Social Sciences in Manhattan, NYC, in 1972, as a non-magistrate foreign student majoring in sociology. One year later, after I used up all the money I brought but obtained my immigrant's status with a green card through the fifth priority, I left the campus and started working in restaurants to raise fund for further study. 在基督教兒童福利基金會服務兩年之後，開始領悟到所學不足，需要到國外去學習社會工作。我得到一個機會在1972年秋天進入紐約市的「社會科學新學校」以非正式的外國學生的身份唸書，主修社會學。一年後我帶出國的錢花光了可是透過第五優先申請移民確有著落了。我就離開學校在餐館打工籌錢準備繼續唸書。
While I continued to look for an opportunity to study social work I got a chance to enter the George Warren Brown School of Social Work of Washington University in St. Louis. I drove my 1966 Plymouth Satellite to St. Louis for a new life as a graduate student majoring in social work for an MSW degree, starting January 1975. 繼續尋找學習社工的時候獲得聖路易（現在我改稱為「新路意」）華盛頓大學的華綸佈郎社工學院的入學許可。我就在1975年元月一個人開著我的1966年份的 Plymouth Satellite 老轎車來到新路意開啟主修社工碩士的新生活。
While in the MSW program I took the courses in the three major divisions of direct-service social work, the casework, the group work, and the community organization. I went through the practicums of a caseworker for intake service and a paid community organizing social worker at the Grace Hill Settlement House. I also took a practicum at the Edgewood Children Serve as a caseworker handling one case of a boy from Illinois who parents were imprisoned. I considered myself a generic social worker. 在社工碩士班裡，社工三大類，個案、群體、社區，的課程我都選。我在「恩惠丘落腳屋」擔任「個別求助的接案」的實習生及「警民關係委員會」的社區組織支薪實習生。後來又在「林邊兒童服務之家」擔任個案工作實習生，帶領一位隔壁州，因為雙親皆入獄而進入庇護所的男孩。我自認為是個多方位（沒有侷限專長）的社工員。
Two years later I finished my study in December 1976 and started looking for job at the same time applying for advanced study in the scientific Ph.D. program for social work research at the same Washington University. Shortly after I was promised a job as the only social worker in a home health program stationed in Poplar Bluff, Mo, covering five counties I received admission to the Ph.D. study and gave up the employment. 兩年後，1996年底，我完成了課程，開始找工作，同時申請進入同一個華盛頓大學社工科學博士班學習「社工研究」。我獲得在密蘇里州南方「白楊崖鎮」擔任唯一社工員處理五個縣區「居家保健」服務的工作不久，收到博士班的入學許可，而放棄就業，繼續學業。
After four years I finished the required coursework and went through several mentors after the first one, Dr. William Gordon, retired suddenly I moved out of the study room and accepted an employment at McDonnell-Douglas Corp as an information system analyst for the product support division. After one year of being an off-campus student, I stopped registration and gave up the status of a Ph.D. student. 四年後，我完成必修課程，在第一位指導教授，著名的哥登博士，無預期退休而換過好幾位指導教授後，我退出研究室而接受麥道飛機公司的聘用，擔任產品服務的資訊系統分析師。一年後，我不再到學校註冊而完全放棄學業及博士生的身份。
I see social work as a discipline of changing people through social context and my major sources of knowledge is more in sociology than in psychology, although I had taken all the courses of clinical psychology and counseling available to me. After going through Ph.D. study I prefer advancing the methods of social work through scientific methods more than intuition and good will. I also see social work as a discipline applicable in every field of work rather than simply something for non-profit and charitable services. Therefore, after retiring from social work services of the Gardens of Hope Foundation, I work to extend my social work knowledge and experiences into a generic field of career development of individuals, groups, and society at large. 我看社工是一些透過社會情境改變人的方法及領域，而我主要知識來源是社會學多於心理學，雖然我把能夠選修的臨床心理學跟諮商學都選修了。經歷過博士班訓練後，我選擇採用科學方法來促使社工方法進步，多過於倚賴靈感與善意。我也認為社工是各個領域都可應用的方法，而不是非營利及慈善服務事業特有的。因此，我從勵馨基金會退休後，繼續要把社工知識與經驗言展到一個一般性的「事業發展」領域來協助發展個人、群體、跟社會的事業。
2018/9/7 at the party of Carrollton Bank in Clayton, Dr. Meiling Tung introduced Dr. Sean Joe to me. We happened to hang around in Ms. Tina Hsieh's office doing nothing. I saw the couple when I checked in at the party, right behind them, without paying attention to anybody at the party. I did not get excited about going to the party in the beginning. It was very noisy at the party and I could hardly understand anything I heard.
In that office, the noise situation was improved but I was still not interested in whatever going on around me until I was invited to meet Sean who sat facing the desk. It was a surprise to me that I was facing an associate dean of the school of social work of Washington Universiy, the George Warren Brown School of Social Work, where I spent 7 of my previous years, in St. Louis.
More surprisingly, he responded to my sharing of what I learned beyond GWB. This is very unusual. I told him that I would like to visit him again. (4:53 2018/9/8)
2018/9/8
The encounter with Dr. Sean Joe reminds me of the needs to write down what I learned, and affecting my career later on, at GWB and to describe all I learned about social work after GWB.
The first couse I took at GWB was about group work. We met for a marathon group in the Brown lounge before three days and nights before the school started. It was a big eye-opener to me. We use the video camera, that was in 1975, way before the Video Cassette Recorder and the low-cost camcorder became available in the consumer market, to record the group dynamics and immediate reviewing. I paid attention to every detail of how the group was handled as I had been a big fan of group activities and the skills of handling groups. In the middle of the semester, we took turns to design and lead group activities and that was a big challenge to me because I was aware that my English was not enough for the challenges. Fortunately, I was inspired to come up with a creative idea that might be a breakthrough. I ran the group without saying a word - by presenting a stack of cards that carried the sequenced instructions shuffled. At first, some group members became impatient waiting for me to give instructions. One of the members noticed that I did place that stack of cards in the center of the circle of the sitting members. She started to pick up the card, browsed and realized that they were instructions. She led the group to figure out what I plan for the group to act and proceeded through. I was released and the instructor, Ron Heiligman, gave me positive feedback. (11:44 2018/9/8)
I got to know something about social work while studying the university bulletin before signing up for the college entrance examination. I found the interesting information listed under the department of sociology and decided to switch my first choice from music to sociology, partly for the reasons of social work courses listed. 我是在報名大專聯考前溜覽東海大學的簡介書的時候才初次接觸到社會工作這回事。我是在社會學系的介紹裡面看到社會工作那些有趣的介紹及學程而使我臨陣把第一志願音樂系改為社會學的。
I started to take courses in social in sophomore, from the introduction to social work to social casework and was fascinated. The social work curricula at Tunghai was first taught by Ms. Hsu-hua Liang followed by Ms. Li-tao Chang, The courses I took was taught by Ms. Chang who just returned from Hawaii University upon receiving MSW degree in 1964 when I was a freshman. 我在大二時開始選修社工概論及個案工作。在東海大學，最初由梁緒華老師開始開社工課程。後來由張驪陶老師接手。我修的課是由在我大一時剛剛從夏威夷取得社工碩士回國的張驪陶小姐教的
After graduation and returning home from military services in the front line on the island of Kim-mn̂g, I applied for a job with the Christian Children's Fund and was accepted. 大學畢業結束在金門島的一年兵役之後我申請並獲得基督教兒童福利基金會的工作。
Christian Children's Fund was the charitable foundation that owned and operated "Kong-im" Orphanage in Taichung. I had chances to visit the orphanage several times in my student days and became acquainted with Rec. Chong-jîn Tân 陳宗仁牧師, who became the chaplain of CCF when I applied for a job. 基督教兒童福利基金會就是經營台中光音育幼院的慈善組織。畢業前，我有機會訪問光音育幼院數次並與當時擔任院牧後來成為會長的的陳宗仁牧師認識。
I started with the new workstation of Family Helper in Kong-san, as a social caseworker, for the Kaohsiung County shortly after the station started functioning. I got to learn to ride the motorcycle there. After three months of commuting from my parents' home in Kaohsiung, I applied for and got the chance to transfer to Taichung Family Helper. 起初我在新成立的岡山家扶中心服務擔任個案工作員，服務高雄縣的家庭。在那裡我學會騎機車。從我父母親在高雄市的家裡跟岡山之間通勤三個月後，我請調並獲得轉到台中家扶中心。
After serving CCF for two years I realized that I need to go abroad to learn more about social work. I got a chance to go to the New School for Social Sciences in Manhattan, NYC, in 1972, as a non-magistrate foreign student majoring in sociology. One year later, after I used up all the money I brought but obtained my immigrant's status with a green card through the fifth priority, I left the campus and started working in restaurants to raise fund for further study. 在基督教兒童福利基金會服務兩年之後，開始領悟到所學不足，需要到國外去學習社會工作。我得到一個機會在1972年秋天進入紐約市的「社會科學新學校」以非正式的外國學生的身份唸書，主修社會學。一年後我帶出國的錢花光了可是透過第五優先申請移民確有著落了。我就離開學校在餐館打工籌錢準備繼續唸書。
While I continued to look for an opportunity to study social work I got a chance to enter the George Warren Brown School of Social Work of Washington University in St. Louis. I drove my 1966 Plymouth Satellite to St. Louis for a new life as a graduate student majoring in social work for an MSW degree, starting January 1975. 繼續尋找學習社工的時候獲得聖路易（現在我改稱為「新路意」）華盛頓大學的華綸佈郎社工學院的入學許可。我就在1975年元月一個人開著我的1966年份的 Plymouth Satellite 老轎車來到新路意開啟主修社工碩士的新生活。
While in the MSW program I took the courses in the three major divisions of direct-service social work, the casework, the group work, and the community organization. I went through the practicums of a caseworker for intake service and a paid community organizing social worker at the Grace Hill Settlement House. I also took a practicum at the Edgewood Children Serve as a caseworker handling one case of a boy from Illinois who parents were imprisoned. I considered myself a generic social worker. 在社工碩士班裡，社工三大類，個案、群體、社區，的課程我都選。我在「恩惠丘落腳屋」擔任「個別求助的接案」的實習生及「警民關係委員會」的社區組織支薪實習生。後來又在「林邊兒童服務之家」擔任個案工作實習生，帶領一位隔壁州，因為雙親皆入獄而進入庇護所的男孩。我自認為是個多方位（沒有侷限專長）的社工員。
Two years later I finished my study in December 1976 and started looking for job at the same time applying for advanced study in the scientific Ph.D. program for social work research at the same Washington University. Shortly after I was promised a job as the only social worker in a home health program stationed in Poplar Bluff, Mo, covering five counties I received admission to the Ph.D. study and gave up the employment. 兩年後，1996年底，我完成了課程，開始找工作，同時申請進入同一個華盛頓大學社工科學博士班學習「社工研究」。我獲得在密蘇里州南方「白楊崖鎮」擔任唯一社工員處理五個縣區「居家保健」服務的工作不久，收到博士班的入學許可，而放棄就業，繼續學業。
After four years I finished the required coursework and went through several mentors after the first one, Dr. William Gordon, retired suddenly I moved out of the study room and accepted an employment at McDonnell-Douglas Corp as an information system analyst for the product support division. After one year of being an off-campus student, I stopped registration and gave up the status of a Ph.D. student. 四年後，我完成必修課程，在第一位指導教授，著名的哥登博士，無預期退休而換過好幾位指導教授後，我退出研究室而接受麥道飛機公司的聘用，擔任產品服務的資訊系統分析師。一年後，我不再到學校註冊而完全放棄學業及博士生的身份。
I see social work as a discipline of changing people through social context and my major sources of knowledge is more in sociology than in psychology, although I had taken all the courses of clinical psychology and counseling available to me. After going through Ph.D. study I prefer advancing the methods of social work through scientific methods more than intuition and good will. I also see social work as a discipline applicable in every field of work rather than simply something for non-profit and charitable services. Therefore, after retiring from social work services of the Gardens of Hope Foundation, I work to extend my social work knowledge and experiences into a generic field of career development of individuals, groups, and society at large. 我看社工是一些透過社會情境改變人的方法及領域，而我主要知識來源是社會學多於心理學，雖然我把能夠選修的臨床心理學跟諮商學都選修了。經歷過博士班訓練後，我選擇採用科學方法來促使社工方法進步，多過於倚賴靈感與善意。我也認為社工是各個領域都可應用的方法，而不是非營利及慈善服務事業特有的。因此，我從勵馨基金會退休後，繼續要把社工知識與經驗言展到一個一般性的「事業發展」領域來協助發展個人、群體、跟社會的事業。
2018/9/7 at the party of Carrollton Bank in Clayton, Dr. Meiling Tung introduced Dr. Sean Joe to me. We happened to hang around in Ms. Tina Hsieh's office doing nothing. I saw the couple when I checked in at the party, right behind them, without paying attention to anybody at the party. I did not get excited about going to the party in the beginning. It was very noisy at the party and I could hardly understand anything I heard.
In that office, the noise situation was improved but I was still not interested in whatever going on around me until I was invited to meet Sean who sat facing the desk. It was a surprise to me that I was facing an associate dean of the school of social work of Washington Universiy, the George Warren Brown School of Social Work, where I spent 7 of my previous years, in St. Louis.
More surprisingly, he responded to my sharing of what I learned beyond GWB. This is very unusual. I told him that I would like to visit him again. (4:53 2018/9/8)
2018/9/8
The encounter with Dr. Sean Joe reminds me of the needs to write down what I learned, and affecting my career later on, at GWB and to describe all I learned about social work after GWB.
The first couse I took at GWB was about group work. We met for a marathon group in the Brown lounge before three days and nights before the school started. It was a big eye-opener to me. We use the video camera, that was in 1975, way before the Video Cassette Recorder and the low-cost camcorder became available in the consumer market, to record the group dynamics and immediate reviewing. I paid attention to every detail of how the group was handled as I had been a big fan of group activities and the skills of handling groups. In the middle of the semester, we took turns to design and lead group activities and that was a big challenge to me because I was aware that my English was not enough for the challenges. Fortunately, I was inspired to come up with a creative idea that might be a breakthrough. I ran the group without saying a word - by presenting a stack of cards that carried the sequenced instructions shuffled. At first, some group members became impatient waiting for me to give instructions. One of the members noticed that I did place that stack of cards in the center of the circle of the sitting members. She started to pick up the card, browsed and realized that they were instructions. She led the group to figure out what I plan for the group to act and proceeded through. I was released and the instructor, Ron Heiligman, gave me positive feedback. (11:44 2018/9/8)
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