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Conventional social work limits social workers to operating within a full acceptance of regulations, rules, obligations, and laws, along with a perceived shift away from social justice efforts (Kallen et al., 1968; Mullaly, 2007).
Jun 16, 2022 · A survey by the CCSWR (2012) found that entry level social workers do not have adequate clinical practice training and are also lacking in clinical knowledge and skills. This article is a critical analysis of the regulation of clinical social work practice in Canada.
Aug 3, 2023 · Policy advocacy plays a vital role in social work, as it allows professionals to address systemic issues and effect meaningful change, such as facilitating equitable access to opportunities, services, and resources (Saxena & Chandrapal, 2022).
Aug 21, 2024 · The Elizabethan Poor Laws set a precedent for government intervention in social welfare and introduced concepts that would influence social work for centuries. However, they also reinforced the idea of moral judgment in the distribution of aid, a concept that would later be challenged by Social Workers advocating for a more compassionate and ...
- Abstract
- Critical Social Work: What Is It?
- The Challenges from Practice
- The Changing Environment of Public Administration
- The Challenges of 'Post' Theories
- Towards Collaborative Practice: Responding to The Diversity Within
- Conclusion
- References
The core mission of critical social work is to promote social justice through social work practice and policy making. To this end, critical social workers have pursued practice theories that prioritise social structural analyses and promote collaborative approaches to action. Critical practice theorists are adept at responding to challenges from ou...
I use the term critical social work to refer to a broad range of practice theories that share the following orientations: 1. a recognition that large scale social processes, particularly those associated with class, race and gender, contribute fundamentally to the personal and social issues social workers encounter in their practice; 2. the adoptio...
Many human service disciplines exhibit an uncomfortable fit between theory and practice; social work is no different from other service professions, like teaching and nursing, in this respect. The complex, uncertain and contextual dimensions of human services work demand open, flexible and reflective interchanges between theory and practice (Fook, ...
The continued relevance of critical practice theory for social workers is dependent also on recognition of substantial recent changes in the public administration environment. These changes, including the rolling back of western welfare states and the rise of new public management discourses, provide a markedly different environment for social work...
'Post' theories, that is postmodern and poststructural approaches, pose a third set of challenges to critical practice approaches. 'Post' theories strike at the assumptions about power, identity and change on which social work theories, critical or otherwise have rested. Critical practice and policy analysts have raised strong objection to 'post' t...
In the current contexts of continuing structural injustice, critical social work projects, which orient human services workers to values of social justice and progressive social change, are of vital importance. I do not argue for the dismantling of these projects; rather I seek to strengthen them through recognition and response to extant challenge...
Throughout the western world, welfare states are in period of transition. Social work practice is being restructured as a result of major changes in social and institutional structures within which social work occurs. While it is important that we take pride in the rich tradition of critical social work, it is vital too that we recognise the need f...
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Jan 28, 2020 · They convey the conflicts and dilemmas of frontline workers as well as the impact of neo-liberalism and new public management (NPM) practices on how social workers identify, frame and resolve ethical concerns, especially in government and non-profit practice settings in times of austerity and retrenchment.
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In 2020, we reviewed the decade 2010–2019 (inclusive) to draw out implications regarding the journal’s scope and influence, and in particular, to identify the extent to which the journal articles represent a Canadian social work character. Only the articles selected for publication were analyzed.
