SWRK 1001H Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Critical Thinking

• School: Trent University
• Department: Social Work
• Course: SWRK 1001H
• Professor: Else Knudsen

Document Summary

Concerned with poverty and social conditions: suffragettes, other primarily female issues, critical thinking. Violence, colonialism (indigenous cultural genocide , removed from families), racism, etc. Residential schools, 60s scoop social work in cultural genocide in indig. Know history, acknowledge history, do better (learn from mistakes of the past) Issues/problems : many variables, different definitions, many different ways to help. Who is being helped, who is involved: different branches as there is a reason for everything which can take different angles (social, familial, personal, etc, critique! ), clothes (clean clothes or clothes at all?) etc) not being average does not automatically mean it"s a bad thing. Focus on social justice and tackling oppression. A range of fields: populations, clients, problems in multiple different organizations. A range of targets: micro mezzo macro. A range of method, approaches (cognitive approaches for childhood issues, feminism approach for women with depression due to familial issues, etc), and ideologies.