Check Yourself
(T/F) Experiencing oppression or disadvantage in one part of your identity means you cannot experience privilege in another.
What is False?
Intersectionality recognizes that people can simultaneously occupy privileged and marginalized social positions.
This is one source of power a social worker may hold besides racial privilege.
What is:
*Professional role?
*Education?
*Decision-making authority?
*Access to resources?
A client makes a racially prejudiced comment during a session. A social worker might:
What is
*Address the statement respectfully?
*Explore where the statement comes from?
*Set appropriate boundaries?
*Consider its relevance to the client's beliefs, relationships, or concerns?
This concept asks social workers to examine their biases, assumptions, and identities and how they affect practice.
What is self-awareness?
This is one way social workers can use their professional power to challenge inequity.
What is
*Advocate for clients?
*Challenge discriminatory practices?
*Promote equitable policies?
*Support diverse hiring?
*Boost marginalized voices?
*Question organizational norms?
A student tells a school social worker that they believe a teacher treats them differently because of their race. The social worker hasn't personally witnessed it, but can do this first
What is listen to and explore the student's experience without immediately dismissing or explaining it away?
What is gather more information?
A social worker thinks, “I treat everyone exactly the same, so my own race doesn't affect my practice.” Based on the article, this important part of culturally competent practice might be missing.
What is critical self-awareness ?
(How the SW's identity, privilege, assumptions, and positional power may affect interactions with clients)
The article suggests that awareness of privilege alone is insufficient because
What is social workers need to translate awareness and critical reflection into actions that challenge inequity in their relationships, practice settings, and organizations.
You realize after meeting with a client that something you said was based on an assumption or stereotype. You should do this.
What is acknowledge the mistake, take responsibility, repair the interaction when appropriate, reflect on where the assumption came from, and use the experience and learn from it?