SWP 132 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Heteronormativity, Heterosexism, Ageism

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Social Work
• Course: SWP 132
• Professor: Charlotte Akuoko- Barfi

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Swp 132: lecture 7: murray (2010): structural social work: theory and process, carniol (2005a): analysis of social location and change: practice implications. Some values as universal truths: p. 32, real democracy better than tyranny, respect for human beings is better than killing them, protection of environment is better than poisoning it, caring is better than indifference, prejudice, contempt or hate. Structural approach to social work: structural approach, examines how structures are often the root cause of social problems, emerged as an alternative to other approaches that pathologizes individuals in social work practice, does not ignore individual problems. Five practices of structural social work: maximizing access to rights and resources, encouraging the development of collective consciousness, grounding problems in access to resources, enhancing the service user"s power through personal change: encouraging thoughts, Increasing service use(cid:396)(cid:859)s po(cid:449)e(cid:396) i(cid:374) the (cid:449)o(cid:396)ke(cid:396)-service user relationship. feelings, and behaviours. (cited in murray pg 14) Question/discussion: as social workers we often times work within institutions and structures.