Just Practice: A Social Justice Approach to Social Work

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Half title
Blank
Just Practice
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
List of Figures
List of Tables
Preface
Acknowledgments
Just Practice and the 2022 CSWE Educational Policy and Accreditation Standards Competencies
1 Imagining Social Work and Social Justice
Overview
Meanings of Social Work
Class Learning Activity: Meanings of Social Work and Social Justice
Individual Learning Activity: Social Work in Different National Contexts
Meanings of Social Justice
Class Learning Activity: Applying Perspectives on Distributive Justice
Linking Social Work and Social Justice
Just Practice Framework: Meaning, Context, Power, History, and Possibility
Class Learning Activity: Show and Tell
Individual Learning Activity: Key Concepts Essay
Summary
Questions for Discussion
Suggested Readings
2 Critical Reflection: A Starting Place for Understanding Difference, Oppression, and Privilege
Overview
The Daunting Realities of Injustice
Meanings of Critical Reflection
Skills and Practices of Critical Reflection
Difference, Oppression, and Privilege
Individual Learning Activity: Exploring Positionality
Class Learning Activity: Faces of Oppression
Individual Learning Activity: Kimberlé Crenshaw and the Urgency of Intersectionality
White Privilege, Racism, and White Supremacy
Summary
Questions for Discussion
Suggested Readings
3 Looking Back
Overview
Individual Learning Activity: Exploring the Roots of Your Social Work Practice
The Roots of Social Work
The Emergence of Social Work
Individual Learning Activity: Documenting Desperate Times
Class Learning Activity: Exploring Settlements Close to Home
Social Work in the Twentieth Century: Snapshots of History
Class Learning Activity—Reader’s Theater: History as Inspiration
Summary
Questions for Discussion
Suggested Readings
4 Values, Ethics, and Visions
Overview
What Do We Mean by Values?
Class Learning Activity: Reflection on Personal Core Values
Values in Context
Class Learning Activity: Family and Values
The Practice of Valuing
Valuing and Social Justice Work
The Concept of Ethics
Ethical Theories
INDIVIDUAL LEARNING ACTIVITY:THINKING ETHICALLY
Values, Ethics, and Social Work
Social Work Ethics 2000–​2020
Class Learning Activity: Applying Codes of Ethics
Frameworks for Ethical Decision-​Making in Social Work Practice
NDIVIDUAL LEARNING ACTIVITY: ASSESSING YOUR ETHICAL STANCE
Knowing Yourself Ethically: A Framework for Self-​Assessment
Expanding the Possibilities for Ethical Decision-​Making
Universal Declaration of Human Rights: Plain Language Version
Summary
Individual Learning Activity: Applying Codes of Ethics
Questions for Discussion
Suggested Readings
5 Just Thinking: Theoretical Perspectives on Social-​Justice–​Oriented Practice
Overview
What Is Theory?
Class Learning Activity: The Politics of Memory
Theory and Contemporary Social Work
Class Learning Activity: Applying Theoretical Approaches
Expanding the Theoretical Possibilities
Just Practice Framework: An Integrated Approach
Summary
Questions for Discussion
Suggested Readings
6 Engagement: Just Get Started
Overview
The Meaning of Engagement
The Context of Engagement
Skills and Practice of Engagement
Lessons for Engagement From Young People
Class Learning Activity: Mirroring Exercise
A Short List of Interpersonal Communication Skills
Challenges of Engagement: Power, Difference, and Resistance
Recognizing and Respecting Resistance
Expanding the Possibilities: Engaging Groups
Class Learning Activity: Developing Group Ground Rules
Popular Education
Summary
Questions for Discussion
Suggested Readings
7 Teaching-​Learning: Reframing the Assessment Process
Overview
Problematizing Assessment
Class Learning Activity: Assessing the Assessment Tools
Shifting Our Approach: From Assessment to Teaching-​Learning
Meaning-​Making: Stories and Voices
Power and the Teaching-​Learning Process
Teaching-​Learning and Human Rights
The Skills and Practice of Teaching-​Learning
Individual Learning Activity: Getting to Know Your Neighborhood
Individual Learning Activity: Biopsychosocial Assessment Formats
Individual Learning Activity: Biopsychosocial Assessment Formats
Individual Learning Activity: Creating your Genogram
Summary
Questions for Discussion
Suggested Readings
8 Action and Accompaniment
Overview
Concept and Process of Action
Concept and Process of Accompaniment
Action and Accompaniment in Context
Rethinking Social Work Roles
Skills and Practice of Action and Accompaniment
Suggestions for Effective Group Facilitation
Steps for Transforming Conflict Between Community Members
INDIVIDUAL LEARNING ACTIVITY: FBCOS IN YOUR COMMUNITY 28
INDIVIDUAL LEARNING ACTIVITY: LINKING POLICY AND PRACTICE 297
Expanding the Possibilities
Summary
Questions for Discussion
Suggested Readings
9 Evaluating, Reflecting On, and Celebrating Our Efforts
Overview
Evaluation
An Intersectional Approach to Evaluation
Participatory Approaches to Evaluation
Class Learning Activity: Making It Participatory
Participatory Evaluation in Action
Resources and Possibilities
Class Learning Activity: The Universal Declaration of Human Rights in Your Community
Evaluating Ourselves
INDIVIDUAL LEARNING ACTIVITY: MY BEST SELF
Celebration
Class Learning Activity: Celebrating Small Steps
Coming Full Circle: Summarizing Principles of Social Justice Work
Summary
Questions for Discussion
Suggested Readings
Epilogue: Just Futures
References
Index