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postgraduate thesis: A comparison of the structure of community-based drug treatment programs in the Great Bay Area China : views from the frontline
Title | A comparison of the structure of community-based drug treatment programs in the Great Bay Area China : views from the frontline |
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Issue Date | 2024 |
Publisher | The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong) |
Citation | Ran, Y. [冉芸嘉], Sun, A. [孙安然], Zhang, T. [张天艺]. (2024). A comparison of the structure of community-based drug treatment programs in the Great Bay Area China : views from the frontline. (Thesis). University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam, Hong Kong SAR. |
Abstract | This study aims to compare and contrast the operational structure of community-based
drug treatment and rehabilitation programs in the Greater Bay Area(GBA), China. The focus
of the present paper is on three cities in the GBA: Zhuhai, Guangzhou, and Shenzhen. The
ultimate goal of this research is to make up for the lack of academic comparison of
community-based drug rehabilitation programs between cities in the Greater Bay Area.
This study is interpretive, based on semi-structured interview data with seven frontline
social workers working in the GBA community-based programs. The interviews were done
face-to-face over some time. The collected data were inductively processed through
open-coding and line-by-line coding techniques. Fifteen themes are abstracted from 120
codes, and findings are generated based on each single theme.
According to the coded data, there are many structural similarities between
community-based programs in three cities, including frontline social workers having identical
procedural responsibilities; programs target audiences that are essentially the same—former
drug users, first-timers with drug dependence; programs designed to support and facilitate
social reintegration; and social workers generally have a positive outlook on program
outcomes. However, under each theme, variations in how the programs are implemented are
also observed. The key structural difference is that the three cities have two social worker
recruiting systems—direct governmental recruitment and programs outsourcing to private
sectors with their recruited social workers. Minor structural differences, such as various
tactics social workers adopted to respond to special program participants, are also found and
discussed in the findings section. Differences displayed through program features are found
due to both social factors (city development and planning) and organizational factors
(bureaucratic structure of communities). Furthermore, the present paper found that even
though every community faces a different set of circumstances,community-based programs in
each city all have different levels of structural ambiguity that require attention from
stakeholders in the future.
The paper acknowledged the relatively small sample size and was mindful of the
subjectivity of interviewees' responses and coders' interpretations.
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Degree | Master of Social Sciences |
Subject | Drug abuse - Treatment - China Drug addicts - Rehabilitation - China |
Dept/Program | Criminology |
Persistent Identifier | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/352857 |
DC Field | Value | Language |
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dc.contributor.author | Ran, Yunjia | - |
dc.contributor.author | 冉芸嘉 | - |
dc.contributor.author | Sun, Anran | - |
dc.contributor.author | 孙安然 | - |
dc.contributor.author | Zhang, Tianyi | - |
dc.contributor.author | 张天艺 | - |
dc.date.accessioned | 2025-01-08T06:46:42Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2025-01-08T06:46:42Z | - |
dc.date.issued | 2024 | - |
dc.identifier.citation | Ran, Y. [冉芸嘉], Sun, A. [孙安然], Zhang, T. [张天艺]. (2024). A comparison of the structure of community-based drug treatment programs in the Great Bay Area China : views from the frontline. (Thesis). University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam, Hong Kong SAR. | - |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/352857 | - |
dc.description.abstract | This study aims to compare and contrast the operational structure of community-based drug treatment and rehabilitation programs in the Greater Bay Area(GBA), China. The focus of the present paper is on three cities in the GBA: Zhuhai, Guangzhou, and Shenzhen. The ultimate goal of this research is to make up for the lack of academic comparison of community-based drug rehabilitation programs between cities in the Greater Bay Area. This study is interpretive, based on semi-structured interview data with seven frontline social workers working in the GBA community-based programs. The interviews were done face-to-face over some time. The collected data were inductively processed through open-coding and line-by-line coding techniques. Fifteen themes are abstracted from 120 codes, and findings are generated based on each single theme. According to the coded data, there are many structural similarities between community-based programs in three cities, including frontline social workers having identical procedural responsibilities; programs target audiences that are essentially the same—former drug users, first-timers with drug dependence; programs designed to support and facilitate social reintegration; and social workers generally have a positive outlook on program outcomes. However, under each theme, variations in how the programs are implemented are also observed. The key structural difference is that the three cities have two social worker recruiting systems—direct governmental recruitment and programs outsourcing to private sectors with their recruited social workers. Minor structural differences, such as various tactics social workers adopted to respond to special program participants, are also found and discussed in the findings section. Differences displayed through program features are found due to both social factors (city development and planning) and organizational factors (bureaucratic structure of communities). Furthermore, the present paper found that even though every community faces a different set of circumstances,community-based programs in each city all have different levels of structural ambiguity that require attention from stakeholders in the future. The paper acknowledged the relatively small sample size and was mindful of the subjectivity of interviewees' responses and coders' interpretations. | - |
dc.language | eng | - |
dc.publisher | The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong) | - |
dc.relation.ispartof | HKU Theses Online (HKUTO) | - |
dc.rights | The author retains all proprietary rights, (such as patent rights) and the right to use in future works. | - |
dc.rights | This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License. | - |
dc.subject.lcsh | Drug abuse - Treatment - China | - |
dc.subject.lcsh | Drug addicts - Rehabilitation - China | - |
dc.title | A comparison of the structure of community-based drug treatment programs in the Great Bay Area China : views from the frontline | - |
dc.type | PG_Thesis | - |
dc.description.thesisname | Master of Social Sciences | - |
dc.description.thesislevel | Master | - |
dc.description.thesisdiscipline | Criminology | - |
dc.description.nature | published_or_final_version | - |
dc.date.hkucongregation | 2024 | - |
dc.identifier.mmsid | 991044884608203414 | - |