Developing Antiracist Social Work Practice at a Comprehensive Cancer Center.

Autor: Mathew L; DSW, LCSW-R, is social work manager, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, 1275 York Avenue, New York, NY 10065, USA., Stewart M; LCSW-R, is a social work manager, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, USA., Damaskos P; PhD, LCSW, FAOSW, is retired. Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, USA., Sinha K; LCSW, is social worker II, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, USA., Cammarata M; LCSW-R, is social work manager, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, USA., Brown C; LCSW, is psychotherapist, Ackerman Institute for the Family, New York, NY, USA., Davis M; LCSW-R, are social work managers, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, USA., Abraham Kaba A; LCSW-R, are social work managers, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, USA.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Health & social work [Health Soc Work] 2023 Oct 27; Vol. 48 (4), pp. 261-269.
DOI: 10.1093/hsw/hlad027
Abstrakt: The combination of the ongoing violence perpetuated against Black, Brown, and Asian people, and the increased incidence of death of Black, Indigenous, people of color (BIPOC) and Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders (AAPI) at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, elicited an important response from the field of social work across the nation. This article describes the efforts undertaken by a Social Work Department at a comprehensive cancer center in response to a call to develop antiracist practice. This article recounts the process of creating educational opportunities for oncology social workers to help them identify bias and racism in themselves and throughout the healthcare system, to embrace intentional antiracist practice, and to better advocate for BIPOC/AAPI patients and colleagues. The strategies included the development of an antiracism committee, the use of a social location exercise to influence and disrupt white supremacy, the creation of community guidelines for engaging in conversations about race, and the formulation of a new departmental policy ensuring a commitment to antiracist social work practice. In addition, a forum using multimedia was created to explore racial dynamics and to highlight the narratives of BIPOC and AAPI people. Further, a monthly Antiracist Clinical Case Conference was implemented to explore their role in the context of working with the interdisciplinary team in an oncology setting. This article concludes with recommendations for ongoing antiracist social work practice development that may be applied in various healthcare settings.
(© 2023 National Association of Social Workers.)
Databáze: MEDLINE
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