Anti-oppressive Practice Approaches

· feminist social work
· radical social work
· structural social work
· Marxist social work
· anti-racist social work

• Intervention focus:
  Social structure
• Change achieved through:
  Consciousness raising and collective action
• Relationship between worker and client:
  Co-activist
• Participation and partnership:
  Worker and client work together
• Measure of change:
  New social order
• Focus on broader political environment:
  Macro-politics
• Process of intervention:
  Long-term and oriented towards massive social change
• Involvement of broader community in change: Yes, collective action

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