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Anti-oppressive practice is an interdisciplinary approach primarily rooted within the practice of social work that focuses on ending socioeconomic oppression.It requires the practitioner to critically examine the power imbalance inherent in an organizational structure with regards to the larger sociocultural and political context in order to develop strategies for creating an egalitarian ...
Anti-oppressive social work research: A preliminary definition. British Journal of Social Work, 37, 857 - 871. ... Implications for practice and research. Families in ...
Practitioners need to be fully aware of a power balance between service users and providers to work in an anti-oppressive manor. Anti oppressive practice can be condemned as ‘a gloss to help it [social work] to feel better about what is required to do’ (Humphries, 2004, p105).
Social work is seen as a catalyst for social change. Social workers work with the oppressed and marginalized and so are in a good position to harness class resistance to capitalism and transform society into a more social democracy or socialist state. ( Bailey & Brake, 1975, [2] Galper, 1975, Simpkin, 1979, Ginsberg, 1979) The reproductive ...
Medical social work is a sub-discipline of social work that addresses social components of medicine. [1] Medical social workers typically work in a hospital, outpatient clinic, community health agency, skilled nursing facility, long-term care facility or hospice .
The worker may begin to understand oppression and marginalization as a systemic problem, not the fault of the individual. [63] Working under an anti-oppression perspective would then allow the social worker to understand the lived, subjective experiences of the individual, as well as their cultural, historical and social background.
Research on discrimination against men has been limited, and the topic is little discussed due to cultural biases. Equality measures often pay little or no attention to discrimination against men, which is perceived as morally less serious than discrimination against women .
] While social work (also known as clinical social work) has appeared to have more potential than others to understand and assist those using services, and has talked a lot academically about anti-oppressive practice intended to support people facing various -isms, it has allegedly failed to address mentalism to any significant degree.