Knowledge, social workers who carry out social work activities with male perpetrators of violence are qualified and fully equipped with knowledge of social work, psychology, sociology, gender, policy, relevant laws as well as other necessary specialties will help to implement social work services for male perpetrators of violence better. Professional qualifications always affect social work activities because when having high professional qualifications, social workers can perform their tasks well such as connecting resources, consulting, advising men, thereby being able to effectively assist group members. If professional qualifications are limited, it can make group members not trust the coordination of social workers.
The role and capacity of the local specialized staff directly contributes to the effectiveness of the implementation of domestic violence prevention services through roles such as: Participating in screening, classifying and receiving subjects; Conducting psychological assessments, health status, personal background and needs of subjects; Proposing plans and directly implementing emergency care plans for subjects and groups of subjects in their assigned areas; Participating in providing and implementing social work services for perpetrators of violence based on the use of theories, methods and practical social work skills such as: Consulting, mediation, communication on domestic violence prevention in the assigned areas; Connecting and referring subjects to local and higher-level support services; Participating in reviewing, monitoring, evaluating care, support and recovery activities for specific cases and proposing revision plans if necessary; Participating in data collection, synthesizing and reporting data and work effectiveness within the assigned scope; Implement legal and policy advocacy related to domestic violence for the subject.
Skills, social workers are equipped with a number of skills when working with men who commit violence (MV), including: Skills to establish relationships with clients who are MV; Skills to work with men who tend to commit GBV; Questioning skills; Active listening skills; Probing skills; Observation skills; Confrontation skills...
Attitudes and social workers when working with GBL men, if ensuring the following principles, will contribute to improving the quality and effectiveness of service provision with GBL clients:
(1) Accept NGGBL
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Clients who are GBL are people with problematic circumstances, living conditions, psychology or personality. Therefore, in the process of approaching and working with GBL men, if the staff has an attitude of respecting human dignity and accepting them even when their aggressive personality has not been controlled, the effectiveness of the service will be higher. For example, working with GBL men in private or in public but still ensuring privacy for the conversation will increase the trust of GBL men. Implementing this principle helps social workers create trust from GBL men, thereby promoting their cooperation and sharing, which is the foundation for establishing a professional relationship that demonstrates interaction in the process of helping GBL men throughout the process of working with them later.
(2) Individualization
Every normal person has the same basic needs. However, in different circumstances, people also have different needs. The same goes for people with disabilities, each person has different personalities and different desires, needs and aspirations. Each of their families also has its own characteristics. Individualizing the case of a person with disabilities helps staff come up with appropriate methods of assistance for each specific case. In the process of working with a person with disabilities, social workers learn and discover the unique features of that case, are flexible in solving problems, and do not apply the same solution to all cases. The solution for each case needs to be considered based on the needs, psychological characteristics, abilities and resources they have. Implementing this principle in the process of working with a person with disabilities will allow social workers to meet the needs of a person with disabilities and practice flexible response skills in solving problems and assisting them.
(3) Respect the autonomy of NGGBL
With this principle, social workers do not make decisions on behalf of clients but only act as catalysts and helpers to help clients make the right decisions, in accordance with their own thoughts and circumstances. The right to decide which solution to choose depends on the clients. Respecting the decisions that clients make and not imposing personal opinions in choosing solutions to problems on behalf of clients will be the way for staff to help clients become more confident and improve their ability to make the right decisions in life.
(4) Information security for NGGBL
Keeping personal information of the disabled will increase the trust of the disabled and facilitate the effective collection of information and support activities. All information of the disabled must always be kept confidential and not disclosed unless they themselves agree. Social workers who thoroughly understand this principle will create conditions for the disabled to be sincere and open, to express their emotions, moods and difficulties. Social workers need to store the disabled's files carefully, with a lock and a password on the computer. When consulting or interviewing the disabled, it is necessary to ensure a quiet and private space for the conversation. Workers should avoid discussing or asking about the disabled's sensitive issues in crowded places, avoid taking pictures and videos without the disabled's consent, and should not use video or audio recordings while talking to the disabled if they do not accept.
(5) Ensure timely service
This principle emphasizes the commitment of social workers to respect the rights of people with disabilities and their responsibilities when providing services. In different circumstances, social workers may encounter certain difficulties in finding and connecting with quality assurance resources for people with disabilities. To do well in this principle, social workers must adhere to professional ethics, enhance professional development and develop self-awareness to be able to connect, manage, supervise and directly provide the most truly quality services to people with disabilities in the process of working with them.
(6) Ensure fairness
Ensuring fairness is a very important principle throughout the process of working with NGGBL. Ensuring fairness is reflected in the following contents:
In receiving information: When receiving information, social workers need to determine objectivity and honesty. When receiving information, social workers must act quickly: ask questions that focus on the main issue, avoid asking cumbersome, confusing questions that make the NGGBL have to think for a long time or answer incorrectly.
In assessing and reviewing the needs, prioritizing the needs of the disabled: When listening to the needs of the disabled, social workers need to fully receive all the needs, and then consider all the needs in the living conditions and environment.
of NGGBL to have a view of which needs need to be addressed and which needs are not legitimate.
In preparing facilities, time and support services, assistance as well as all related services for the disabled: Social workers need to consider all available resources, find out the services that can help the disabled, the level of assistance to create a balance between the disabled and the family.
In keeping NGGBL confidential: Keeping NGGBL's information, status and attitude confidential during the working process with NGGBL is an important principle that helps NGGBL be more confident, sincere and cooperative with NVCTXH.
(7) Ensure professional relationships
In the process of working with the disabled, social workers need to have moral qualities and professional manners. Behaviors that demonstrate the professional relationship between social workers and the disabled include respecting the views, values, and professional principles; not taking advantage of one's role to demand gratitude from the disabled; absolutely not having a sexual relationship while providing assistance. The relationship between social workers and the disabled must ensure friendliness, two-way interaction, but be objective and ensure professional requirements.
(8) Self-awareness of social workers when working with NGGBL
Self-awareness is one of the indispensable principles of social workers when working with NGGBL. This helps social workers know the limits of their power, have the awareness to improve themselves to perform well the assigned tasks, so that they can surpass the capacity of social workers and need to be transferred. Being aware of this factor helps social workers to be honest in their work, honest with their own abilities [44].
2.4.3 Family factors
In any field, any problem that happens to people in life, the family factor always plays an important role in influencing and affecting each individual. Because people are always a member of the family. In the process of implementing social work services with the disabled, the family factor also plays an important part in contributing to the results. Because the family is the closest and most intimate environment for the disabled and has important influences on the perception and behavior of the disabled. The family here includes both large families with many generations and
nuclear family. Family factors affecting the access of PWDs to social work services are shown in:
1. The abused woman's own perception of her husband's domestic violence behavior:
2. Psychology and actions of the wife when her husband accesses services.
3. Perception and behavior (agreement, support, assistance) of other family members during the process of NGGBL accessing and participating in using the service.
2.4.4 Factors related to legal policies
When protected by law and receiving the support and approval of the state, all actions, programs, plans and measures will be implemented synchronously and effectively in all areas in general and in the prevention of domestic violence in particular. Therefore, the legal policy factor is a solid foundation for building and implementing social work services for men to reduce domestic violence from the central to local levels.
In recent years, the Party and State of Vietnam have paid great attention to the issue of preventing and combating domestic violence against women. By signing the CEDAW Convention, Vietnam has demonstrated its full commitment to eliminating all forms of violations of women's rights and discrimination against women. The two most important laws in the legal framework for preventing and combating domestic violence in Vietnam are the Law on Gender Equality (2006) and the Law on Prevention and Control of Domestic Violence (2007). The Law on Gender Equality prohibits acts of violence based on gender and sets out measures to ensure gender equality aimed at a number of structural causes. The Law on Prevention and Control of Domestic Violence focuses on domestic violence committed by family members within the family. Decree 110/2009/ND-CP on handling administrative violations in the field of prevention and control of domestic violence; Circular 16/2009/TT-BYT-2009 on the Law on Domestic Violence Prevention and Control (guidance on reception, medical care and statistics...); Circular 02/2010/TT-BVHTTDL - 2010 on the Law on Domestic Violence Prevention and Control (detailed procedures related to expertise and services of consulting establishments); Circular No. 23/2011/TT-BVHTTDL: regulations on collection and processing of information on families and prevention and control of domestic violence; Circular No. 24/2011/TT-BVHTTDL: Regulations on standards and conditions for rewarding individuals and collectives participating in preventing and controlling domestic violence; subjects, conditions, and agencies that reimburse property damage to those directly participating in preventing and controlling domestic violence;
Circular of the Ministry of Justice No. 07/2011/TT-BTP: This Circular provides guidance on ensuring gender equality in the organization of staff and legal aid activities. The Circular identifies women as victims of violence as a group of subjects that need priority support from legal aid organizations and stipulates the tasks of staff and legal aid organizations (in identifying victims, providing legal advice and legal representation); Joint Circular No. 143/2011/TTLT/BTC-BVHTTDL: regulates the management and use of state budget funds to support facilities supporting victims of domestic violence, facilities providing advice on domestic violence prevention and control, and trusted addresses in the community (Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism, 2013).
Programs aimed at raising awareness and reducing the rate of domestic violence in Vietnam have been implemented in recent times, such as: National Action Plan on Gender Equality for the period 2011-2015; National Action Program on Violence Prevention and Control until 2020; National Action Plan on Violence Prevention and Control, Child Abuse for the period 2020-2025. Interventions implemented through this program include campaigns to raise awareness among the community, local leaders and policy makers as well as drafting educational and communication materials. Men and boys are also targeted by these initiatives, such as the nationwide campaign “I am a man, I oppose violence” or the “Gender Equity Movement in Schools” in Da Nang (ICRW, 2012) and clubs targeting perpetrators of violence or men in general, such as the “Husbands and Fathers” club, the “Men’s Club” established by the Center for Creative Initiatives in Health and Population (CCIPH) and violence prevention training courses for male perpetrators [90].
2.4.5 Financial factors
There is a saying in our country, "Only with food can we practice morality." This is true in any profession or field that wants to operate effectively, the most necessary and sufficient factor is still the financial factor. The same is true in the social work profession, because it is a newly born field, it is very necessary to have financial support to widely deploy all support services to target groups in society. With the work of reducing domestic violence, financial resources will help:
1) Ensure funding sources to develop and implement social work services to reduce domestic violence in general and social work service activities for GBV men in particular.
2) Funding sources to open training courses and refresher courses to improve professional capacity for social workers and officials who hold concurrent positions or have responsibilities related to the field of family planning at all levels periodically.
3) Ensure funding for the maintenance of physical facilities to contribute to creating an effective physical environment for implementing social work activities with GBL men to reduce domestic violence. In particular, the location for organizing men's club activities needs to be safe, convenient, and suitable; ensure sound, light, and temperature; minimize details that cause interference and loss of focus for group members (noise, lack of order, clutter; too many details in the room, etc.); Have a campus that ensures the organization of special activities that can effectively organize experiential methods, role-playing hypothetical situations; There needs to be complete and reliable documents (personal profiles/group activity diaries, handouts for group members, etc.), and manuals for organizing social work activities with GBL men; Equip appropriate means and equipment for social work activities with GBL men to reduce domestic violence: visual tools, video clips, films, projectors/TVs... To implement such material conditions, it is necessary to have a mechanism for financial resources to be spent according to regulations; Combine mobilizing resources in the community: business organizations, sponsoring units.
4) Financial resources to pay for the team of social workers, part-time officers and related responsibilities in charge of the PCBLGĐ sector at each unit from the village level to the ward level : All social work activities come from the heart of social workers, but if there is a lack of funding, the support activities for the subjects will not bring high efficiency, long-term commitment from the subjects and responsibility in the work of social work officers . Therefore, ensuring the regime and having a suitable policy regime to encourage and motivate is one of the conditions to help them feel secure in their work and support activities.
2.4.6 Community factors
The social community surrounding GBL men includes: the company (agency) where GBL men work, neighbors, neighborhood groups, groups of friends, local authorities... This factor greatly affects the effectiveness of the implementation of PCBLGĐ services because each individual is in a different community and is subject to the influence of that community. If the community and society consider the issue
Domestic violence is a private matter of each family, " each family has its own light", the intervention and condemnation of the community and the village are only temporary and vague, so the NGGBL will not see the need to change their awareness and behavior. Therefore, domestic violence still has conditions to exist and develop. In many countries, the authority of men is considered the foundation of the development of religion, organization, traditional culture and in the maintenance of the race. Men always have more benefits than women and of course they do not want to give up these long-standing existences. Therefore, although the benefits of increasing men's participation in service activities to promote gender equality and prevent domestic violence have been recognized in many places around the world, many people still oppose gender equality [14]. Violent acts are often not intervened in time and punished appropriately, because of the indifference of the community, which considers it as a private matter of each family. In the process of applying and accessing social work services of the NGGBL, if receiving support, approval or encouragement and rewards from the community, it will help the intervention process to be accelerated to achieve positive results and the NGGBL to have convenient access to social work services and vice versa.