The New Politics of Social Work Practice: Understanding Context to Promote Change
| Autor: | Michael Reisch, Jayshree S. Jani |
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| Rok vydání: | 2012 |
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| Zdroj: | British Journal of Social Work. 42:1132-1150 |
| ISSN: | 1468-263X 0045-3102 |
| DOI: | 10.1093/bjsw/bcs072 |
| Popis: | During the past several decades, social work practice in the USA and the industrialisedworld has become increasingly politicised—a consequence of political-economic, ideo-logical, demographic and cultural changes. This new political environment is reflectedin all aspects of social work practice, including its underlying assumptions, theoreticalbases, research methods and educational foundation. It influences how all participantsin the service process define needs, implement alternative strategies of helping andevaluate their effectiveness. Persistent misunderstandings about the meaning of politicsand its relationship to professional practice, however, present major obstacles to the de-velopment of effective responses to this dramatic transformation. At the organisationaland societal levels, these misunderstandings discourage challenges to the institutionalstatus quo. At the micro level, they rationalise existing hierarchies between socialservice agencies and service users, and between workers and clients. To counteract# The Author 2012. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf ofThe British Association of Social Workers. All rights reserved.British Journal of Social Work (2012) 1–19 |
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