
Social Justice in Clinical Practice
A Liberation Health Framework for Social Work
- 218 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
Social Justice in Clinical Practice
A Liberation Health Framework for Social Work
About this book
Social work theory and ethics places social justice at its core and recognises that many clients from oppressed and marginalized communities frequently suffer greater forms and degrees of physical and mental illness. However, social justice work has all too often been conceptualized as a macro intervention, separate and distinct from clinical practice.
This practical text is designed to help social workers intervene around the impact of socio-political factors with their clients and integrate social justice into their clinical work. Based on past radical traditions, it introduces and applies a liberation health framework which merges clinical and macro work into a singular, unified way of working with individuals, families, and communities. Opening with a chapter on the theory and historical roots of liberation social work practice, each subsequent chapter goes on to look at a particular population group or individual case study, including:
- LGBT communities
- Mental health illness
- Violence
- Addiction
- Working with ethnic minorities
- Health
Written by a team of experienced lecturers and practitioners, Social Justice in Clinical Practice provides a clear, focussed, practice-oriented model of clinical social work for both social work practitioners and students.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- Figures
- Contributors
- Introduction: Why liberation health social work?
- Overview of the book
- 1. The liberation health model: Theory and practice
- 2. Becoming a liberation health social worker
- 3. Liberation health and LGBT communities
- 4. Working with major mental illness in the community
- 5. Liberation health and women survivors of violence
- 6. Working with addictive behavior
- 7. Working with African-Americans
- 8. Working with upper-middle and privileged-class families
- 9. Liberation health in a child protection agency
- 10. Working in public housing
- 11. Liberation health in the hospital
- 12. Working with Latino/as
- Index