Report on social worker consultation assistancepractical training at rehabilitation facilities
JCSW/UNSW International Seminar On Social Welfare In Asia And The Pacific Rim 2024
Joint Workshop on Australian and Japanese Social Work Field Education in a Global Era

Ayame Hongo
Department of Social Administration
Faculty of Social Welfare
JCSW
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Themes for practical training① The dilemma of rehabilitation: How can we reconcile the conflicting nature ofcriminal justice and welfare? Also, find out about the current situation and if
there are any actual conflicts arising.
② Interactive aspects of crimes and the environment: Exploring the value of self
as a social work student and how these values fit with my own aspirations ofworking in the criminal justice field.

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1. Positioning of rehabilitation and the standing of social work
professionals in this context
Image before practical training

Rehabilitation

WelfareCriminaljustice

Image after practical training

Criminaljustice

Correction

WelfareRehabilitation

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2. Theme (1)Dilemma of rehabilitation: Correction, rehabilitation and welfare; adilemma in four dimensions

Criminaljustice⑴⑴ Within correction （green）
Correction⑵ Within rehabilitation （purple）⑶ Between rehabilitation and correction（purple‐green）⑶⑷ Between rehabilitation and welfare（purple‐pink）⑵⑷

WelfareRehabilitation

Four dimensional dilemma

4Treatment in the community / social rehabilitation /Guarantee of fundamental human rights of the individual(3) Between rehabilitation (welfare) and correction

The more a person requires treatment within the community, themore likely they are to be released at maturity of their term

(2) Part of rehabilitation

Institution-based treatment / Supervision and management /Maintenance of public safety and order(1) Part of correction

If some kind of medical condition is a factor in the crime, the patient may
not be able to balance work and treatment (e.g., hospital visits,
participation in DARC/NA, etc.), leaving the cause of the crime not being
dealt with, which can then easily become a reason for re-offending.

Shorter imprisonment means less reward for work and a moreunstable post-release environment for rehabilitation.

Correction
Rehabilitation
Making a slip up is as important process on the road to recovery
from drug addiction. Although rehabilitation does serve as adeterrent to not using drugs, considering that one normally has todeal with drug addiction through repeated trial-and-error,
rehabilitation has a strong sense of being a punishment for a “drugoffender” and does not seek to approach the essential nature of“addiction” as a condition. The practice of “immediate jail afterdrug use” does not allow for any kind of therapeutic approach to“addiction” and its establishment in society and the community,
and thus does not lead to recovery and rehabilitation after theperson in question has made the initial slip up.

(3) Between rehabilitationand correction
System to suspend the sentence
for some drugs-related crimes

WelfareFelt instinctively uncomfortable as a social worker due to thevalues and ethics of social welfare that I had been imprinted
with, and felt inclined to reject and criticize this approach.

Rehabilitation
A staff member from the probation office was borrowing, lending,giving, and receiving goods, money, and names, etc., andsocializing privately with a (former) inmate/user.

↓They refer to the subjects as “family,” or a member of thecommunity, and try to be involved with them as if they were theirown.

Periodic visits to the probation office, substance abuse
prevention programs, drug testing, and interviews to keep
users motivated and compelled to recover from drug problems
over the long term. These provide a period of adjustment
between prison and society, aimed at reintegrating the user into
society while preventing drug reuse. It has also been criticizedas having the underlying purpose of cutting costs and enablingcorrectional facilities to shirk their responsibilities.

(4) Between rehabilitation
and welfare
Welfare experts available forduration of rehabilitation↓
I came to understand and accept this approach as being that ofa probation officer, coming from a somewhat different direction.
This is precisely what community welfare is about. I now
respect the staff who have a policy as a probation officer aspersons engaged in another profession.
52. Theme (2)Interactive aspects of crimes and the environment: Application of an
ICF model in rehabilitation

健康状態

心身構造・身体構造

活動

参加

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Examples of juvenile delinquents I
have actually encountered

Environmental
adjustments to prevent
recidivism=social work

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Completion of training (my case)“Rehabilitated to the extent that I wanted topresent the user with a bouquet of flowers”“The person I wanted to give the flowers to had
committed a crime”

What made that person who I wanted to present flowers towant/need to commit the crime in the first place?
― Think about that person’s background
What would ensure that the person I wanted to give the flowers
to did not commit a crime?
― Think about what needs to be done to ensure that acrime is not committed.

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Completion of training (another trainee)

If only the user had been more fortunate in their living environment,
And if they had received help at an earlier stage,
They would probably not have ended up going to prison.
What all users felt in common was

A sense of social isolation and not belonging
The crime committed is definitely a part of the perpetrator, but it is
not everything about them.

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Report on social worker consultation assistancepractical training at rehabilitation facilities
JCSW/UNSW International Seminar On Social Welfare In Asia And The Pacific Rim 2024
Joint Workshop on Australian and Japanese Social Work Field Education in a Global Era

Thank you for your attention!
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