Generalist Social Work Chapter 4

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Empowerment

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Focus on client strenghts rather than deficits

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Strengths perspective

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Notion that people have untapped undetermined resovoirs of mental physical emotional and spiritual abilities that can be expressed

People must be accorded respect for this power

When social workers support this power they enhance the probability for positive growth

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Asset based approach

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Shifts focus from identifying risk factors to promoting protective factors signals a move from thinking problem based to strengths based

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Pathology

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Diagnosing. Pathology obscure people's strengths and creates labels and stereotypes

Establish negative expectations that diminish chances for positive change

Block visions of potential and constrict plans of service

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Past of future?

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Interventions based on the medical model searches the past to detect how client systems went wrong. Strebtghs vases explores the present and how they can take charge of the future

When clients and social workers begin to work together they can only influence the current situation and the direction of the future not change the past

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Empowerment on different levels

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Personal level refers to state of mind feeling a sense of control and competence

Interpersonal level refers to interdependance support and respected status

Sociopolitical level refers to objective reality of opportunities in social structures and reallocation of power through modification of social structures

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Personal empowerment

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Our own sense of competence mastery strength and ability to affect change

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Competence

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Ability of any human system to take care of itself and draw resources from other system and contribute resources

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Interpersonal empowerment

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Our ability to influence others

Comes from two sources

Based on social status

Power achieved through learning new skills and securing new positions

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Sociopolitical empowerment

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Involves our relationship with social and political structures when as a result of interactions with environments people increase their power towns control of resources they experience empowerment

Competent social systems contribute to the effective functioning of their members and likewise function as opportunity structures for other systems in their enviroment

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Power blocks

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Deny access to opputunities and undermine competent functioning

3 levels:

1. Deny accessibility to resources (insufficient healthcare)

2. Barricades sources for learning and interpersonal skills ( lack of education for jobs)

3. Denied valued social roles (discrimination impeding the ability of parents to support children)

To expect others to reach empowered state without considering if they have minimal resources mocks empowerment

To fully be empowered people must be able to experience contributing to their community as well

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Power

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Having power means having access to information and choosing actions from many possibilities and can obtain resources needed to influence others

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Powerlessness

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Can result from power blocks

Generate a sense of self blame distrust and alientaion

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Oppression

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The injustice that results from domination and control of resources and opputunities that favors some groups and disenfranchised others

Involves economic social and psychological exploitation of others

Could include situations such as poverty unemployment inaccessibility to healthcare housing and education

Expressions of oppression are such as racism classidm ableism heterosexual regionalism sexism ehtnocentreism and ageism

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Victim blaming

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Compounds the experience of oppression

Labels victims as inferior defective or unfit

Casts blame on inferiority instead of the society itself

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Empowerment as a concept

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Offers a perspective to assess the interconnection between personal circumstance and political realities

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Empowerment as a process

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Describes how practiyioners actually approach their work

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Empowerment based practice

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First sw apply ecosystems perspectives and strength orientation in practice this means they consider client situations in context search for client strenghts and environmental resources

As generalists sw draw on skills for resolving issues at many social system lebelsband respond to interconnection between personal troubles and pick issues

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Clients or consumers?

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Consumer emphasizes an active role they consume services

Critics say it is conveying passive consumption and implies marketing

Client is criticized as it suggests a subservient position

It affords dignity

Client system broadens from the individual

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Ethics of clinical work

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Ethics of care

Ethic of autonomy

Ethic of power

Ethic of change

Ethic of respect

Ethic of critical thinking

Ethic of praxis

Ethic of discourse

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Ethics of political practice

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Ethic of critique

Ethic of justice

Ethic of contextual practice

Ethic of inclusion

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Ethics of political practice

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Ethic of antioppressive practice

Ethic if advocacy

Ethic of collaboration

Ethic of politicized practice

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Ethic of care

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Maximizing human potential respecting human dignity and treating each client as a unique individual

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Ethic of autonomy

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Recognizing personal initiative free choice voluntary action and authority in governing ones life. Maximizes self determintaion

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Ethic if power

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provides perspectives and methods to assist people who are disenfranchised to access and exercise power in order to protect human rights and achieve social justice Requires attention to the environment because power can be sustained or diminished

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Ethic of change

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Change is continuous and multidimensional. Working together practitioners and clients interact with systems affecting clients situations

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Ethic of critique

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Critique of social arrangements focuses on issues of hierarchy and oppression. Challenge assumptions of the status quo

Involves questioning who holds the power controls the resources or has the most to gain or lose

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Ethic of justice

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Confront issues of injustice and inequality

Access to privilege opportunity to experience privilege and awareness of due process and a voice in policy formation are trademarks of justice centered practice

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Ethic of contextual practice

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Contexts can either be oppressive or empowering

Directs empowerment strategies that extend beyond the individual adaption to creating change innsocila or political contexts

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Ethic of inclusion

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Maximum feasible participation by clients

Ensuring a clients has a voice I'm case plans service delivery options etc

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Ethic of respect

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Expressing regard for clients human dignity and worth

Validates clients identity facilitates communication and encourages action

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Ethic of critical thinking

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Examination of presenting issues as multidimensional

Placing info in cultural social and political contexts

Achieve a diversity sensitive appraisal of client situations

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Praxis

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Continuous process of reflection- action- reflection

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Ethic of praxis

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Integral to develop critical understanding about opresion and it's impact to implement solutions for social justice

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Ethic of discourse

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Discourse is the exchange of ideas beliefs and practices that shape what we think is real or true

Embraces the network of social relations within which there the communication of ideas occurs

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Ethic of anti oppressive practice

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Challenge explotative relationships and alter power dynamics

Requires understanding of how those in power use oppression to maintain the status quo

Sw confront inequality advocate and practice from inclusion

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Ethic of advocacy

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Sw leverage professional resources as a way to champion the rights of individuals or causes

Social workers speak with not for others

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Ethic of collaboration

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Callobrorating with clientsbasbpartners also with organizations professional groups communities etc

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Ethic of politicized practice

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Maximizes participation

Sw engage in policy practice to set us policies

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Characteristics of empowerment centered social workers

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Focus on context

Affirmation of collaboration

Emphasis on strengths and opputunities

Integration of practice at multiple system levels

Incorporation of politicized approach

Commitment to reflective practice

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Focusing on context

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Based on trasactional view of human behaviour with the environment. Assessment can identify contextual elements that contribute to problems clients have

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Affirming Callaboration

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Reflects attitudes of mutually respect and shared power

Workers and clients function interdependently to address issues rather than just on the worker

also defines the structure the worker has with colleagues agencies communities and society

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emphasizing strengths and opportunists

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focuses n strengths and activating resources rather than correcting deficits

in dialogue workers respond in a way that recenter the view to highlight strengths skills solutions and opportunities

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Integrating practice activities at multiple system levels

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a change in any part of the system reverberate through the system to create other changes

workers and clients coordinate several forces at multiple levels to achieve positive change

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incorporating a politicized approach

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political context shapes the human condition

empowerment based social workers integrate political perspective into direct practice to initiate social action

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committing to reflective practice

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reflection involves cycle of thinking doing and reflecting - a process that garners insight and refines actions

reflective practice explores connections between personal troubles and public issues

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integrating clinical and political practice

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ensure the fulfillment of the social justice contract between individuals and society especially for disenfranchised groups

concerned with the reduction of inequality and promotion of social justice. empowering social workers are both clinical and political in their efforts to create social conditions favorable to the wellbeing of people and society

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Using group modalities

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working with clients in groups maximize empowerment and promotes social justice

hearing others tell stories related to ones own

members are able to help others recognize issues of oppression develop critical consciousness and collectively take action. mutual sharing helps look outside oneself for causes and problems to solutions

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Developing critical conciousness

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empowerment involves conscientization (change at the personal level) and social action (change at the collective level)

private and public issues are intertwined

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Incorporating anti oppressive practice

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redresses oppression and social exclusion through its focus on liberation emancipation and enfranchisement of members of vulnerable and oppressed groups

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Engaging in Praxis

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cycle of action-reflection-action