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Published in Robert Jones, Fiona Jenkins, Managing and Leading in the Allied Health Professions, 2021
This is again a diverse set of notions that are defined in various ways. Indeed anti-discriminatory and anti-oppressive practices are often used as umbrella notions that incorporate challenging dominant ideologies and strategies for empowerment. Braye and Preston-Shoot54 differentiate between anti-discriminatory and anti-oppressive practice, highlighting some of the issues. In their model, anti-discriminatory practice is reformist, and challenges inequality within officially sanctioned rules, procedures and structures. Specific strategies include: equal access to services; ethnically sensitive services; and consultation about services. Anti-oppressive practice, in this model, seeks more fundamental changes in power structures and specific strategies include: rebalancing power relationships between professionals and clients, with client control of services and resources; and identification and challenging of abuses of power experienced by clients. In most of the literature, however, the two terms are used interchangeably and draw on similar ideas.
Current and Future Needs of Gerontological Social Work Practice in Alberta: Findings from the World Café at the Gerontological Symposium in Edmonton, Canada
Published in Journal of Gerontological Social Work, 2022
Anna Azulai, Hongmei Tong, Kathaleen Quinn, Kelly Mykietka
As a socially constructed phenomenon, what aging means, and how it is perceived and experienced is influenced by culture, societal expectations, and individuals’ lived experiences (Brooks, 2010; Teater & Chonody, 2020). Older adults’ experiences and perspectives play an essential role in understanding and explaining aging and finding solutions for change. Given the social work profession’s orientation to the Anti-Oppressive Practice (Zhang, 2018), it is upon social work professionals, leaders, researchers, and educators to expand the role of social work in the specialized area of gerontology. In this vein, any work that focuses on helping social workers learn how to impact a positive change in the system and to reduce the barriers that affects the daily lives of the aging population, is a form of social justice. It is imperative that social workers have the skills to facilitate aging population to find their own voice thereby encouraging older adults to get what they perceive they need to live a good life.
Gerontological Social Work in Action: Anti-Oppressive Practice with Older Adults, their Families, and Communities
Published in Journal of Gerontological Social Work, 2020
The second part of the book explores the application of the anti-oppressive practice perspective (AOP) in gerontological social work. The authors begin by deconstructing the concepts of risk and frailty which are commonly imposed on older adults by the society. A discussion of the moral, legal and ethical issues related to social work practice with older adults follows, paying particular attention to issues related to consent, capacity and decision-making. Family care is examined with a focus on challenging concepts of caregivers and caregiving to recognize that older adults are not only care-receivers but also caregivers. Special topic chapters include: a chapter on dementia using a citizenship lens that foreground growth and participation of the person with dementia in their own lives and society in general; a chapter outlining trauma informed practice using a life-course perspective for understanding individual and collective trauma on the aging experience of older adults; a chapter examining the intersection of mental health, mental wellness and substance use for older adults; and finally a chapter examining elder mistreatment and violence at individual and structural levels.
This Land Is Our Land: Exploring the Impact of U.S. Immigration Policies on Social Work Practice
Published in Journal of Progressive Human Services, 2020
Micro level interventions often take place with individuals, families, and groups in locations where service users can obtain mental health services, aid with housing, health care, and other areas. In implementing anti-oppressive practice with Latin American migrants, social work practitioners should focus primarily on building confianza (trust and safety) since feelings of mistrust pertaining to people in authority may emerge (Marsiglia, 2013). In keeping with this notion, Perez-Foster (2001) states that social workers “must strive to alleviate the inevitable anxiety that comes from offering clinical care to people whose worlds may so markedly differ from our own” (p.167). In addition to trust building when working with undocumented Latinx migrants, it is essential for service users to “have the opportunity to consider the whole of their identity apart from their legal status” (Nicola, 2017, p. 298). Practitioners and service users alike are encouraged to reconstruct the psychosocial narrative since Latin American migrants are more than just their migratory statuses (Nicola, 2017). Under this framework, the relationship between service provider and service user should be that of allies, co-learners, and catalysts for systemic change (Sakamoto, 2007, p. 528).