Just Practice: A Social Justice Approach to Social Work

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cover 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