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Ciccarelli: Psychology_5 (5th Edition)

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ISBN:9780134477961

Author:Saundra K. Ciccarelli, J. Noland White

Publisher:Saundra K. Ciccarelli, J. Noland White

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Critical social work practice and interventions

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Critical social work is the social work practice that applies critical theory perspective. This approach tends to address social injustices rather than focusing just on the individual issues. Critical social work is an interdisciplinary approach that is a mix of humanities and social sciences and is an amalgamation of various theories like feminism, anarchism, social democracy, Marxism, etc.

The orientations followed by critical social work are as follows:

Large scale social processes including class, gender, etc contribute to the individual and social issues.
Adopting critical and self-reflexive stance.
Adoption of co-participatory relations than authoritarianism.
Working for/with oppressed population to bring about a change.