Anti-Oppression Social Work
The different levels of intervention in social work practice
What is "micro, mezzo and macro"?
It is a set of guidelines for social workers to support decision-making according to specific standards.
What is a "code of ethics"?
The skill of communicating an understanding and an appreciation of a service-users circumstances.
What is empathy?
A skill that challenges us not to judge service-users.
What is "non-judgemental?"
An approach in social work that focusses on the attributes and assets to service-users.
What is "strengths-based approach"?
A type of group in social work.
What is a "support group"? "Educational group" "Task group" "Social action group" "Self-help group"
Making an effort to understand how our own beliefs, experience, identities and personal lives shape our practice.
What is "critical self-reflection"?
A type of social work that takes place in the community.
Community development
Community organizing
Community building
Capacity building
The reason why anti-oppression social work came about.
An approach in social work that focuses on reducing risk from harmful behaviours rather than stopping harmful behaviours.
What is "harm reduction"?
The focus is on increasing a service-user's sense of power and ability to act.
What is "empowerment"?
An approach to services that attempts to mitigate the impact of an individual issue by supporting safer lifestyle choices for individuals.
What is "harm reduction"?
When individuals believe negative stereotypes and representations of aspects of their identity.
What is "internalized oppression"?
When individual's experiences are addressed as an individual malady and the response is to offer a diagnosis and treatment.
What is the "medical model"?
Limits set by the social worker regarding their role to ensure effective job performance, their own well-being, as well as personal privacy.
What are professional boundaries?
When oppression is imbedded in our attitudes, behaviours, culture and institutions.
What is systemic?
In order to understand how oppression functions in our society, we must also understand this, the opposite force of oppression.
What is "privilege"?
A grouping of theories that are concerned with social change, as opposed to maintaining the current social order.
What are "progressive theories"?
The role social workers take when pressuring for change on behalf of a person or group of individuals.
What is "advocacy"?
The two areas of understanding necessary in social work as it relates to LGBTTQI* communities.