SWP 301 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Post-Structuralism, Neoliberalism, Human Services

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Social Work
• Course: SWP 301
• Professor: Shane Young

Document Summary

Introduction: anti-oppressive practice, social-justice-oriented practice model, strength: its compassionate embrace of humanity in all its diversity and adversity, and its wholehearted commitment to social justice in the immediate and the long-term. Important to understand the interconnection of larger systems and everyday problems: e. g. , the connections between globalization and the client seeking mental health supports, much of the wealth in first worlds was acquired through colonization of the third. Important to understand, critique, and improve how social workers use that privilege to challenge oppression in everyday life. Locating goods and services necessary to survival: the growth in poverty is a major factor to the complexity and intensity of clients" problems, new populations that are growing are poor people, working poor, people experiencing long-term homelessness. Immigrants and refugees with foreign credentials who have difficulty getting these credentials recognized or entering the labour market: workfare participants who are kept interminably poor.