이혼여성의 공동체 구축을 통해 본 대응전략과 사회복지실천의 함의

The Study of Counter-strategies of the Divorced Women and It's Social Work Practice Implications with Special Reference to the Construction of Community Jung-hyun Sung This study examines the process of divorced women's community construction and finds out their identities, coping strategies, implications for social work practice. For this purpose, this study uses the qualitative method. Participants of this study are eleven community leaders and eight community members. The qualitative data is analyzed through thick descriptive method. As a result, most of divorced women's communities were constructed before and after 2000 and functioned emotional support as family like community. And Communities cope with social prejudice by applying individual and social empowerment strategies, formation of discourses. However, the activities, strategies and visions of communities are different as to the types of institutions. The communities of social welfare agency are more dependent and stagnate than women's agency. They explore ways toward self independent community through construction of community based small groups, networking with women's agency, and intensification of education programs focused on self-insight. On the contrary, the women's agency and the other NGOs are searching for reinforcement of group activity, an increase in members, individual and social empowerment through self-disclosure, lettering, and campaign. This study finds out that the divorced women construct the communities and their identities toward social empowerment themselves, and implicates the role and direction of social work practice in situation of the client own self propose the political issues and explore the problem solving methods. Keywords: divorced women, community, counter-strategies, family like community, empowerment.