2016 Volume 57 Issue 2 Pages 68-80
This study aims to consider the structure of the support for the residents of the 2011 earthquake disaster-stricken area, from social workers’ perspective and methods of their work to individuals and communities. The results of interviews wih community social coordinators, working at the social welfare council of B city in A prefecture after the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake, were analyzed through ethnographic observations of the coordinators and the communities. We found that community social coordinators had developed distinctive methods, with different perspectives from those of other professionals. And they built a way of thinking about supports for individuals, considering their own positions and the characteristics of the communities. Methodologies which bring both the whole area and its individuals into view have been shown in several studies. But social workers, such as community social coordinators, had to reorganize those methodologies. Based on this fact, we suggest the necessity of presenting existing methodologies as easy-to-use for the people concerned.
