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The delivery of social services in northern Thailand

Catherine Nye

Smith College School for Social Work, Lilly Hall, Northampton, MA 01063, USA, cnye{at}smith.edu

English

This article describes parallel professional secular and traditional religious social service delivery systems in northern Thailand within global trends towards secular provision. It locates these systems in their cultural, historical context and raises questions about the future directions of these parallel service delivery models.

French

Cet article met en parallèle les systèmes des services sociaux professionnel laïc et religieux traditionnel dans le nord de la Thaïlande dans le cadre des tendances globales de développement des services laïcs. Il situe ces systèmes dans leur contexte culturel et historique et fait émerger des questions sur les orientations futures de ces modèles parallèles de mise à disposition de services.

Spanish

Este ensayo describe los sistemas paralelos de provisión de servicios sociales en el norte de Tailandia, profesionales seculares por un lado y tradicionales religiosos por el otro, dentro de las tendencias globales hacia la provisión secular. Estos sistemas son ubicados en sus contextos histórico y cultural y promueven preguntas acerca de las direcciones futuras de estos modelos paralelos de provisión de servicios.

Key Words: Buddhist traditions • global/local social services • Thailand

International Social Work, Vol. 51, No. 2, 193-205 (2008)
DOI: 10.1177/0020872807085858
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