Anti-Oppressive Social Work Practice Theory

Baines, Donna; Kia, Hannah

doi:10.1007/978-981-16-3059-0_10-1

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“…Nevertheless, it is worth pointing out the possibilities through which a critical SSD can lead to change in the community. In line with Baines’s (2011, p. 80) claim that there are “many ways to undertake social action and organizing, and many ways to incorporate activism into everyday frontline practice,” the systematic and professionally coherent dialogues between the staff and other services in the community enable the staff to implement different forms of local-level policy practice (Gal & Weiss-Gal, 2015). By influencing both the ways in which specific service users are perceived and contributing to other professionals’ understanding of poverty as a social injustice issue, the staff influence actual policies within the community (e.g., the mandatory report process at the local health center's baby unit).…”

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Critical social work in public social services: Poverty-aware organizational practices

Saar-Heiman

Nahari

Krumer-Nevo

2023

Journal of Social Work

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Summary Whereas some studies have addressed the conditions and practices required to infuse critical notions into the organizational context of public social services, there is a paucity of knowledge on what a critical public service can look like in actual practice. This article explores the possibility of applying critical theory and practice at the organizational level of public social services. It focuses on one social services department in Israel that underwent a six-year process of learning and implementing the Poverty-Aware Paradigm. Findings Based on an in-depth case study that combines ethnographic and participatory methods, we outline how critical ideas are translated to four organizational principles: developing a critical learning culture, acknowledging services users’ knowledge and skills, leading a critical discourse in the community, and poverty-proofing services and allocating resources to tackle poverty. Each of these principles is presented with derivative organizational practices and a detailed account of their implementation. Applications By broadening the framing of critical practice as an individual, street-level endeavor, the findings offer policymakers and public social services professionals an organizational model that mitigates the negative consequences of current neoliberal and managerial policies around the world.

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Critical social work in public social services: Poverty-aware organizational practices

Saar-Heiman

Nahari

Krumer-Nevo

2023

Journal of Social Work

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“…The field of social work, influenced by the civil rights movements of the 1960s, expressed concern in relation to racism in the 1970s, which in the 1990s expanded into understandings of the role of multiple oppressions, leading to the emergence of antioppressive practice (Laird, 2008). For over 15 years, social work scholars and practitioners (e.g., Baines, 2011;Bishop, 2002;Carniol, 2010;Dominelli, 2002;Fook, 2002) have continued to advance anti-oppression praxis, more recently formulating micro level interventions (Curry-Stevens, 2016).…”

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Anti-oppression Psychotherapy: An Emancipatory Integration of Intersectionality Into Psychotherapy

Timothy¹,

Garcia²

2020

Psychotherapy and Counselling Journal of Australia

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This article discusses how, in contrast to the field of social work, anti-oppressive practice has a relatively short history within the field of counselling, psychotherapy, and psychology. The article addresses the limitations in predominant approaches to counselling and psychotherapy and presents anti-oppression psychotherapy (AOP) as a model that integrates an anti-colonial, intersectional perspective. This article provides an overview of the context from which AOP emerges, along with foundational definitions, and a detailed explanation of the principles of the model.

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“…In its pure form, anti-oppressive practice is "a social justice-oriented practice model […] taught in a number of schools of social work around the world and embraced by a wide swath of social workers in clinical, community, and policy settings" (Baines, 2011, p. 26). The practice attempts to draw upon multiple social justice, liberatory frameworks in order to re-center the voices of marginalized bodies (Baines, 2011;Massaquoi, 2011). This means that within anti-oppressive social work, aspects of feminism, Marxism, post-modernism, Indigenism, post-structuralism, anti-colonialism and anti-racism are included in its approach (Baines, 2011).…”

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“…The practice attempts to draw upon multiple social justice, liberatory frameworks in order to re-center the voices of marginalized bodies (Baines, 2011;Massaquoi, 2011). This means that within anti-oppressive social work, aspects of feminism, Marxism, post-modernism, Indigenism, post-structuralism, anti-colonialism and anti-racism are included in its approach (Baines, 2011). Subsequently, due to its broad definition, I argue that anti-sanist (Perlin, 1992) and intersectional approaches to social work can be included in this framework.…”

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“…Currently, as anti-oppressive concepts become integrated within mainstream social work, the context for opposing oppressive practices is being lost (Baines, 2011). The experiences of individuals and groups are once again homogenized into a singular experience of marginalization whereby the unique tensions and struggles of individuals and groups are blurred (Baines, 2011).…”

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The Roots of Practice: An Anti-Colonial Critical Discourse Analysis of Western Nature-Based Mental Health Therapies

Chui¹

2023

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<div>This study seeks to explore how nature-based therapies are understood in Western “mental health” practices. Specifically, horticultural and equine-assisted therapeutic models are examined for discursive themes tied to mind-body connections, attachment and healing. Additionally, texts used to teach specific therapeutic modalities are examined to further explore common concepts such as mindfulness and coping. In conducting a review of relevant literature, similar themes were revealed which contributed to a base knowledge for understanding the discourse around nature-based therapies. Engaging in an anti-colonial theoretical framework and a modified critical discourse analysis methodology, this qualitative study explores the research question: “What are the discourses which inform Western nature-based therapies?” Ultimately, this study aims to develop a more thorough understanding of how these therapies are linked to Indigenous approaches, how practices may be appropriated and used by Western practitioners, and the shift in social work towards more wholistic therapeutic practices. </div>

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Anti-Oppressive Social Work Practice Theory

Cited by 19 publications

References 43 publications

Critical social work in public social services: Poverty-aware organizational practices

Critical social work in public social services: Poverty-aware organizational practices

Anti-oppression Psychotherapy: An Emancipatory Integration of Intersectionality Into Psychotherapy

The Roots of Practice: An Anti-Colonial Critical Discourse Analysis of Western Nature-Based Mental Health Therapies

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