2019 Volume 59 Issue 4 Pages 67-79
This study aims to examine effective ways to support school social work for children of LGBTQ in Japan. For that purpose, I conducted a questionnaire survey on nursing teachers who are thought to play an important role in supporting LGBTQ pupils and analysed the support situation at Japanese schools. As a result, there were certain structures suppressing such children by way of stigma at schools. This indicated that these children were quite powerlessness and susceptible to such situations as stigmatisation in Japanese schools. In addition to these issues,(1) no early support is provided,(2) schools do not provide an environment that enables consultations for children of LGBTQ, and (3) school staff are not actively working as a whole to resolve such issues. Therefore, school social work practices are necessary from the viewpoint of respect for human rights, social justice and diversity, which is the value basis of social work. For this reason, school social workers are expected to conduct empowerment practices at schools. In particular, the introduction of empowerment theory for powerlessness situations is considered to be effective.
