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TitleA 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 Date2024
PublisherThe 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.
AbstractThis 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.
DegreeMaster of Social Sciences
SubjectDrug abuse - Treatment - China
Drug addicts - Rehabilitation - China
Dept/ProgramCriminology
Persistent Identifierhttp://hdl.handle.net/10722/352857

 

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dc.contributor.authorRan, Yunjia-
dc.contributor.author冉芸嘉-
dc.contributor.authorSun, Anran-
dc.contributor.author孙安然-
dc.contributor.authorZhang, Tianyi-
dc.contributor.author张天艺-
dc.date.accessioned2025-01-08T06:46:42Z-
dc.date.available2025-01-08T06:46:42Z-
dc.date.issued2024-
dc.identifier.citationRan, 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.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10722/352857-
dc.description.abstractThis 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.languageeng-
dc.publisherThe University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong)-
dc.relation.ispartofHKU Theses Online (HKUTO)-
dc.rightsThe author retains all proprietary rights, (such as patent rights) and the right to use in future works.-
dc.rightsThis work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.-
dc.subject.lcshDrug abuse - Treatment - China-
dc.subject.lcshDrug addicts - Rehabilitation - China-
dc.titleA comparison of the structure of community-based drug treatment programs in the Great Bay Area China : views from the frontline-
dc.typePG_Thesis-
dc.description.thesisnameMaster of Social Sciences-
dc.description.thesislevelMaster-
dc.description.thesisdisciplineCriminology-
dc.description.naturepublished_or_final_version-
dc.date.hkucongregation2024-
dc.identifier.mmsid991044884608203414-

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