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Liberation Theology, Group Work, and the Right of the Poor and Oppressed to Participate in the Life of the Community
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Liberation theology has developed in Latin America by clergy and laity as a means for reaching the poor and oppressed people and for challenging the power of the Roman Catholic hierarchy.Abstract:
Liberation theology has developed in Latin America by clergy and laity as a means for reaching the poor and oppressed people and for challenging the power of the Roman Catholic hierarchy. It offers ideas for social group workers in reaching out to the disenfranchised and challenges those elements in our theoretical models that lean toward paternalism and limited empowerment. The relinquishing of power by the worker is an essential aspect of the challenge.read more
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Rethinking Empowerment Theory Using a Feminist Lens: The Importance of Process:
TL;DR: The authors highlights the importance of social, historical, and political context when theorizing empowerment and "maps" empowerment as a cyclical, rather than a linear, process, and proposes understandings of positionality, conscientization, and social transformation that are meant to inform empowerment-oriented, feminist social work practice.
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Clinical Social Work's Contribution to a Social Justice Perspective
TL;DR: Social justice is increasingly being seen as the organizing value of social work as mentioned in this paper, and clinical social workers engage in supervision, organizational change, directing programs, and community education, and they also join with other social workers and their clients in social action.
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On the Meaning of Empowerment and Empowerment-Oriented Social Work Practice
TL;DR: In this article, the authors discuss five components deemed essential for disempowered individuals to become empowered: social action, political awareness, the right to say and have a say, recognizing oneself and being recognized as competent, and the use of power.
De l'« habilitation» au «pouvoir d'agir » : vers une appréhension plus circonscrite de la notion d'empowerment : Le dossier : Une pragmatique de la théorie
TL;DR: In this article, a new nouvelle traduction susceptible de mieux refleter la realite a laquelle on associe l'idee d'empowerment dans le champ des pratiques sociales.
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The role of critical consciousness in multicultural practice: examining how its strength becomes its limitation.
Ronald O. Pitner,Izumi Sakamoto +1 more
TL;DR: How the strengths of developing critical consciousness in multicultural practice can paradoxically become its limitation is examined.
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Social Group Work Models
TL;DR: In this paper, social group work models have been used to model social groups in the context of education for social work (EDW) and to evaluate the performance of social groups.
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Towards a model of change in consciousness-raising groups
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors describe women's consciousness-raising groups, present findings of a research study of these groups, and develop a model of the change process in these groups on the basis of those findings.