Anti-oppressive social work theory and practice

✍ Scribed by Lena Dominelli

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Year: 2002
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 222
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

"Lena Dominelli is Professor of Social and Community Development and Director of the Centre for International Social and Community Development, University of Southampton, and President of the International Association of Schools of Social Work."--BOOK JACKET.

✦ Table of Contents

Content: List of diagrams --
Oppressive social relations: a concern for social workers --
Introducing Anti-Oppressive Theories for Practice --
Retheorising oppression to understand its complexities --
The multidimensionality of context --
Social work as an oppressive caring profession --
Social work within an anti-oppressive framework --
Oppression, Social Divisions and Identity --
Identity as a central feature of oppression --
'Othering' processes as exclusionary --
Identity formation and exclusionary processes --
Identity in social work --
Anti-Oppressive Practice as a Legitimate Concern of Social Work --
Ethics in social work practice --
Human rights are a concern of anti-oppressive practice --
Legitimating anti-oppressive social work --
The backlash against anti-oppressive social work --
Anti-Oppressive Practice in Action: Working with Individuals --
Working with individuals in anti-oppressive ways --
Anti-Oppressive Practice in Action: Group Interventions and Collective Action --
Organising around identity --
Strengthening communities --
Managing poor people --
Engaging in Organisational Change --
Organisation(s) matter(s) --
Challenging the organisation --
Beyond Postmodern Welfare: Establishing Unity between Content, Process and Outcomes --
Postmodern insights --
The failings of postmodernism.
Abstract: "Lena Dominelli is Professor of Social and Community Development and Director of the Centre for International Social and Community Development, University of Southampton, and President of the International Association of Schools of Social Work."--BOOK JACKET