Beyond Diversity Courses: Strategies for Integrating Critical Consciousness Across Social Work Curriculum

Nicotera, Nicole; Kang, Hye‐Kyung

doi:10.1080/08841230802240738

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“…Another important implication of the present study is that community psychologists, counselors, social workers, and other frontline professionals should be equipped with critical consciousness so that they can have the competence and humility to work with clients with oppressive backgrounds (Nicotera & Kang, ). By raising critical reflection, it can allow frontline practitioners to gain greater recognition of the ways in which structural forces produce health and social inequality.…”

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Liberating and Empowering Effects of Critical Reflection on Collective Action in LGBT and Cisgender Heterosexual Individuals

Chan

Mak

2019

American J of Comm Psychol

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Critical consciousness represents the transformation from a passive target of oppression to an active actor with an increased capacity to analyze and negotiate conditions of oppression. It is considered as an antidote for oppression that can liberate people from oppressive ideologies and empower them to resist social injustice. Building on the theory of critical consciousness and the Social Identity Model of Collective Action, this paper examined the liberating and empowering effects of critical reflection on collective action for minority rights. Results of a cross‐sectional study in 1,050 LGBT individuals (Study 1) showed that critical reflection was associated with lower levels of internalized oppression and higher levels of collective efficacy, which in turn were associated with greater intentions to undertake collective action for LGBT rights. Findings from a prospective longitudinal study in 428 cisgender heterosexual individuals (Study 2) indicated that critical reflection was associated with lower levels of internalized domination and heightened levels of efficacious beliefs, which positively predicted actual participation in collective action at a subsequent wave. The findings supported the effects of critical reflection on collective action mobilization and offered leads for future research and praxis on how to orient different sectors of society to work toward social equity.

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Liberating and Empowering Effects of Critical Reflection on Collective Action in LGBT and Cisgender Heterosexual Individuals

Chan

Mak

2019

American J of Comm Psychol

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“…As noted by Freire (1970), those who hold privilege and power in society must examine and modify their own roles in sustaining inequities for social justice to be advanced. Research has documented positive efforts in enhancing the critical reflection of professionals in education, educational leadership, psychology, social work, and the health professions (Halman et al, 2017; Nicotera & Kang, 2009; Zion et al, 2015). We also emphasize the need to enhance critical reflection and action outside of educational institutions, such as through corporations and human resources departments, that offer work-based learning and employment to youth and the adults in their lives.…”

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Person- and System-Focused Prevention in Preparing Youth to Navigate an Uncertain Work Future

Kenny

Tsai

2020

Journal of Prevention and Health Promotion

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In this article, we discuss the integration of prevention science and vocational psychology for person- and system-focused prevention with a critical social justice agenda. More specifically, we focus on career development education as a potentially transformative primary prevention activity for increasing youth access to decent work and lives of well-being. We consider this as a critical agenda for two reasons. First, there are continued declines in the availability of decent work on a global level. In addition, youth who are marginalized by society are particularly vulnerable in competing for access to such dwindling opportunities and in thriving in communities and workplaces characterized by oppressive policies and practices. Building upon previous work in prevention and vocational psychology from a social justice perspective, we suggest that the psychology of working theory (PWT) can serve as a conceptual framework for developing and evaluating person- and system-focused preventive interventions that will address marginalization and seek to prepare all youth for an uncertain and shifting work future.

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“…As such, social workers should be more aware of how they are implicated within this system Mullaly, 2010, Mullaly & West, 2018. Indeed, some scholars have recommended that social workers should confront, challenge, and dismantle their privilege because it is potentially harmful to clients (Cagle, 2010;Curry-Stevens, 2010;Greene, 2010;Hobgood, 2000;Holody, 1998;Jones, 2010;Lopez, 2010;Mullaly, 2010;Mullaly & West, 2018: Nicotera & Kang, 2009Pease, 2010;Vodde, 2001). However, there is a paucity of empirical studies to justify these recommendations.…”

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Privilege as a Moving Target

Taiwo

2018

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Linked to people’s social identities, privilege is largely understood as an unearned asset, which translates to advantages for those to whom it is ascribed. Drawing on a phenomenological research conducted with 20 direct practice social workers in Southwestern Ontario, Canada, this paper suggests an alternative theoretical framework of social constructionism for considering the evolving and shifting dimensions of privilege and its implication for social work practice. By proposing privilege as a moving target, study participants acknowledged the different but fluid categories of social identities and the different contexts of individuals in society. Participants also recognized the advantages that are earned by personal and professional characteristics, which can be experienced or deployed in multiple ways. They also identified internal characteristics such as a sense of agency or autonomy, which is the recognition of the individual as a self-propelling agent with choices even amidst adverse situations. Privilege as a moving target accepts the dynamic physical, ecological, political and sociocultural environments under which social workers operate. Understanding that privilege is a moving target is relevant to professional social work practice because privilege goes to the core of personal and professional identities of social workers as they interact with clients and in society.

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Beyond Diversity Courses: Strategies for Integrating Critical Consciousness Across Social Work Curriculum

Cited by 97 publications

References 8 publications

Liberating and Empowering Effects of Critical Reflection on Collective Action in LGBT and Cisgender Heterosexual Individuals

Liberating and Empowering Effects of Critical Reflection on Collective Action in LGBT and Cisgender Heterosexual Individuals

Person- and System-Focused Prevention in Preparing Youth to Navigate an Uncertain Work Future

Privilege as a Moving Target

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