Empowerment through Advocacy and Consciousness-Raising: Implications of a Structural Approach to Social Work
Year: 1990
Type: article
Abstract: Empowerment of oppressed clients requires of social workers to act as advocates and to assist clients in changing the dynamics which contribute to self-oppression or the oppression of others. The paper explores a five-stage process wherein oppressed individuals contribute to the social order that devalues them and, in the process, also participate in the oppression of others. The practice implications of a structural approach to social work committed to client empowerment in each of these stages are described.
Author: Maurice J. Moreau
Institution: Université de Montréal
Language: English
Subfield: Public Administration
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
SDG: Reduced inequalities
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W852534714