Just Practice: A Social Justice Approach to Social Work

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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