Abstract:

The persistent emphasis on the endogeneity and combination effect of disasters in social science deeply breaks through the restrictions of traditional thoughts from the perspective of natural science and technology. Consequently the disaster management becomes “community orientated”. There is a debate over whether and how social work in the community can provide effective service to cope with disasters nowadays. Critically examining the dominant service model of social work concerning disaster in the West, this thesis advocates to reconstruct the service model from “community-oriented” to “community-centered” so that community itself, as a subject with multiple relationships, can return to the center of social service concerning disaster and make more effective service possible from an anti-sectarian professional standpoint.