The Book
The co-authors of: “Anti-oppressive Social Work Practice: Putting Theory into Action”.
Who are Karen Morgaine & Moshoula Capous-Desyllas?
The primary mission of the social work profession is to enhance human well-being and help meet basic human needs and empowerment of people who are vulnerable, oppressed, and living in poverty
Who is NASW - National Association of Social Workers?
___ contends that a society is just when the major institutions meet the needs of the majority, measured as net satisfaction
What is Utilitarianism?
______ social inequality is woven throughout social institutions, as well as embedded within individual consciousness
What is Pervasive Oppression?
A form of social work practice which addresses social divisions and structural inequalities in the work that is done with people whether they be users (“ clients”) or workers.
What is Anti Oppressive Practice ?
"In my primary direct practice work, I held a position for close to ten years in a community mental health setting. I was an individual therapist, family therapist, mental health assessment therapist, and a domestic violence (DV) group facilitator."
Who is Karen?
The purpose of the social work profession is to promote human and community well-being. Guided by a person and environment construct, a global perspective, respect for human diversity, and knowledge base on scientific inquiry, social work's purpose is actualized through it's quest for social and economic justice, the prevention of conditions that limit human rights, the elimination of poverty, and the enhancement of the quality of life for all persons.
Who is Council on Social Work Education
_____ is seen as directly influencing self-esteem and self-respect, and thus it is a foundational component of social justice.
What is Recognition Perspective?
_____ represents structural and material limitations that significantly shape individual opportunities and one’s sense of possibility
What is Restrictive Oppression?
Analyzation of participants’ intersecting identities and social locations can provide insight into forms of oppression that the participants are experiencing.
What is Critical Assessment?
She has the pleasure of introducing social work to 25 NYU students, with an aim to deepen their understanding of the interconnectedness of theory and practice in all professions.
Who is Professor Dukes?
_____ social work exemplifies a mainstream, conservative ideology in which social workers neutrally approach the individual or group at hand and attempt to assist through either adaptions or improvements in the environment. The social worker who models this form provides bureaucratically driven service delivery and does not address systemic inequities.
What is mainstream social work?
_____ is based on the principle of equal distribution, whereby everyone is given the same level of goods and services.
What is egalitarian approach?
______ signifies a hierarchical relationship in which privileged groups have unearned advantages from the disempowerment of disadvantaged groups
What is Hierarchical Oppression?
Practice context means providing participants with the tools and skills to address cultural, structural, and personal barriers that prevent them from gaining control of their own lives.
What is Empowerment?
“Anti-oppressive Social Work Practice: Putting Theory into Action” has ___ chapters that build upon historical concepts to provide readers with an understanding of social work’s inception and current practice today."
What are 11 chapters?
____ social work is closely related to maintenance social work yet focuses on the individual as the target for the intervention. It addresses emotional and psychological needs and issues with a psychological perspective.
What is therapeutic social work?
______ demonstrated through libertarian political ideology, is a conservative approach to social justice.
What is libertarian approach?
______ power and privilege are relative, because individuals hold multiple, complex, and crosscutting social group memberships that grant relative privilege or disadvantage in different ways, depending on different contexts
What is Complex Oppression?
A commitment to collaboration and dialogue, attention to the interplay of power, and a mutual and equal exchange of teaching and learning.
What is working in partnership?
"Upon my graduation with a bachelor’s degree, my first job was working in a social service agency primarily serving Latina immigrant women receiving TANF (Temporary Assistance for Needy Families) and other forms of government assistance."
Who is Moshoula?
____ social work is based in a critical analysis of power structures and the societal distribution of resources. This type of social work addresses both individual and policy advocacy work (2009).
What is emancipatory social work?
______ presents his theory of justice as focused on fairness. Instead of viewing social justice as based on a social contract that has already been established, he suggests that social justice itself is the foundation for social arrangements.
Who is Rawls?
_____ also resides in the human psyche and oppressive beliefs are internalized
What is internalized oppression?
Social workers are all too often blamed for the tragedy, for either failing to intervene or being overzealous in their interventions. Thus, social workers are rethinking their relationship with the state, and in turn, in what manner and how much they should intervene in people’s lives.
What is minimal intervention?