Reframing Social Work with an Anti-Oppressive Lens

This book offers a state-of-the-art overview of agency-based social work practice, consistent with the values and ethical principles of the profession. Applying an anti-oppressive, liberatory social justice lens to working with Black, Indigenous, People of Color (BIPOC) and other at-risk populations, the book provides contemporary theoretical frameworks and practice approaches, rich clinical examples, and practice wisdom from expert agency-based social work clinicians working in the dominant fields of practice: child welfare, education, health, mental health, youth justice, carceral systems, substance use, intimate partner violence, racial and other traumas, palliative care, world of work, and older adults. This is the essential guide for beginning social workers and supervisors practicing in diverse organizational settings.

The book provides both an overview of practice in the aforementioned areas, as well as an in-depth look at intersubjective practice with the specific population. Each clinical chapter provides:

• the history of social work in the practice setting;
• an overview of the current research in the area;
• the predominant evidence-based practice approach(es) being used;
• the role(s) of the social worker in the specific setting and grounded in anti-oppressive and ethical clinical practice;
• an extensive case example and discussion, inclusive of the clinician's reflections and countertransference reactions;
• practice and supervisory wisdom offered by the authors as to how to negotiate the organizational system to best benefit their clients;
• evolving nature and future direction of the practice area; and
• reflection questions for students, instructors, and beginning clinicians.

Reframing Social Work with an Anti-Oppressive Lens

Chapter 1 Introduction. - Part I Anti-Oppressive Practice Frameworks. - Chapter 2 BIG - Tools for Decolonization and Abolitionist Praxis in the Omnipresence of White Supremacy. - Chapter 3 Adaptive Leadership in Support of Anti-Oppressive Practice in Social Work Organizations. - Chapter 4 The Power of the Pause: Preparing Students for Critical Reflection. - Part II Anti-Oppressive Lifecycle Practice. - Chapter 5 Perinatal Mental Health Addressing Service Gaps and Advancing Anti-Oppressive Practices. - Chapter 6 Child Advocacy Centers: A Multidisciplinary Approach to Trauma-Informed Care. - Chapter 7 Working Alongside Multiple System-Involved Youth of Color. - Chapter 8 Culturally Responsive School Social Work Practice: A Case Study in an Urban Public School. - Chapter 9 Beyond Binaries and Boxes: Anti-Oppressive Perspectives on Clinical Social Work with Sexually and Gender Diverse Adolescents in School Settings. - Chapter 10 Nothing About Us, Without Us: The Importance of Disability Justice in Social Work Education. - Chapter 11 Anti-Oppressive Practice in Community-Based Mental Health: Examining Current Research and Clinical Implications. - Chapter 12 Unconscious Bias in Social Work: Identifying Culturally Responsive. - Part III Anti-Oppressive Practice in the Criminal Justice System. - Chapter 13 The Sankofa of American Prisons: The Case for Abolitionist Social Work. - Chapter 14 Invisible Casualties: Youth Justice Work. - Chapter 15 Anti-Oppressive Practice Within Youth Diversion Programs. - Chapter 16 Anti-Oppressive Practice with Women in Carceral Spaces. - Chapter 17 Using Trauma as a Form of Oppression: How Intersectional Trauma Keeps Women Incarcerated. - Part IV Additional Anti-Oppressive Practice Settings. - Chapter 18 The Palliative Social Work Role in Surrogate Decision-Making for Sexual and Gender Diverse Older Adults: Opportunities for Anti-Oppressive Practice. - Chapter 19 More Humanity Needed in Human Service: An Anecdotal Analysis of Current Homeless Service Practices. - Chapter 20 The Future of Social Work Responding to Organizational Workplace Needs. - Appendix. - Glossary of Acronyms and Terms.