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STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS OF PERSONAL PROBLEMS
DEFENSE OF CLIENTS RIGHTS Defence of Client's Rights refers to worker activities directed at responding to the clients the need for adequate financial and material resources. Advocacy for client rights and adequate resources recognizes the importance of addressing issues of material resources. Conventional social work encourages social workers to emphasize personal emotions, skills, and interpersonal capacities and conveys the message that these are more important than advocacy for material resources.
MUTUAL DIALOGUE Mutual dialogue structural social workers strive for egalitarian mutual dialogue in the client worker relationship. Conventional social workers maximize worker -- client power differences following the professional expert model. While consultation may occur generally prescribed solutions are proposed which clients are expected to follow.
LINK PERSONAL & POLITICAL Link Personal and Political structural social workers begin with the premise that existing structures are oppressive and the export changing. This involves sharing opinions and encouraging feedback concerning how the clients situation links with the primary structures of oppression. Conventional social work methods tend to blame the victim and psychologizing problems.
PERSONAL CHANGE Personal Change although the structural social worker views social problems as being caused by the primary structures of oppression, they do not blame everything on structures and ignore individual responsibility for harmful behaviour. Client and worker work together to explore the clients feelings and behaviour in relation to both the structures of oppression and the behaviour of other people.
COLLECTIVE CONSCIOUSNESS Collective Consciousness fostering collective consciousness requires that people recognize common experiences. Progressive social workers should link their own experiences with the experiences of others in similar situations. The client -- worker dialogue should include an examination of how collective solutions to problems can occur. Clients are encouraged to link with other people who have had similar experiences.
SOCIAL ACTIVISM Social Activism structural social workers engage in activism to change structures. Since conventional social workers to not see existing structures as problematic, political activism is seen as unnecessary and unprofessional. For structural social workers training social action groups or movements represent one of the most important and powerful aspects of work. © Copyright 1998-2000, Steven Hick, All Rights Reserved.
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The New Structural Social Work: Ideology, Theory, Practice
Social Work: A Critical Turn Social Work: A Critical Turn is both an introduction to critical social work and an examination of current theory and practice. This volume features contributions from an international group of scholars who define the main theoretical underpinnings of a critical approach to social work and examine innovative practice methods using this approach. Social Work: A Critical Turn situates critical social work within a theoretical context, comparing it with postmodernist, radical, feminist, anti-racist and structural approaches. It also reviews key issues that require further development in critical social work theory, practice and research
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Anti Racist Social Work (British Association of Social Workers (BASW) Practical Social Work)
Anti-Racist Practice in Social Work (New Directions in Social Work)
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