Promoting Anti Oppressive Practice

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Promoting Anti Oppressive Practice

• Marilyn Crawshaw and Helen Jillings

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Why is it important to promote anti-oppressive
practice?

• Fundamental to the social work task
• Something that the profession does well
• Social work students (and SWs!) sometimes
  struggle to translate rhetoric into reality

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What are you training students to become?

• Key purpose of social work
• a profession which promotes social change,
  problem solving in human relationships and the
  empowerment and liberation of people to enhance
  well-being. Utilising theories of human
  behaviour and social systems, social work
  intervenes at the points where people interact
  with their environments. Principles of human
  rights and social justice are fundamental to
  social work
• International Association of Schools of Social
  Work and the International Federation of Social
  Workers, 2001

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Assessment Criteria

• Values and ethics are core to competent social
  work practice.
• Key Roles 1 - 4 cover the practice of social
  work.
• Key Roles 5 and 6 refer to the social worker as
  an accountable and professionally competent
  practitioner, and underpin all other activity.

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What will the workshop cover?

• Some models for thinking about a.o.p.
• Attention to knowledge, skills and values
• Time spent on the learning process, including
  identifying learning opportunities and
  facilitating the students progress
• Time spent on the assessment process what are
  the PT and student expected to provide in terms
  of evidence

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National Occupational Standards

• Six key roles
• No specific reference to values
• Key Role 6
• 19.2 Use professional assertiveness to justify
  decisions and uphold professional social work
  practice, values and ethics.
• 19.3 Work within the principles and values
  underpinning social work practice

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GSCC Code of Practice

• 1. Protect the rights and promote the interests
  of service users
• 2. Strive to establish and maintain the trust
  and confidence of service users and carers
• Promote the independence of service users while
  protecting them as far as possible from danger or
  harm
• Respect the rights of service users whilst
  seeking to ensure that their behaviour does not
  harm themselves or other people
• Uphold public trust and confidence in Social Care
  Services and
• Be accountable for the quality of their work and
  take responsibility for maintaining and improving
  their knowledge and skills.

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Social Work Values

• Identify and question their own values and
  prejudices and their implications for practice
• Respect and value uniqueness and diversity and
  recognise and build on peoples strengths
• Promote peoples rights to choice, privacy,
  confidentiality and protection, while recognising
  and addressing the complexities of competing
  rights an demands
• Assist people to increase control of and improve
  the quality of their lives, while recognising
  that control of behaviour will be required at
  times in order to protect children and adults
  from harm
• Identify, analyse and take action to counter
  discrimination, racism, disadvantage, inequality
  and injustice, using strategies appropriate to
  ones role and context
• Practice in manner that does not stigmatise or
  disadvantage either individuals, groups or
  communities

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BASW Code of Ethics

• Social work is committed to five basic values
• Human Dignity and worth
• Social justice
• Service to Humanity
• Integrity
• Competence
• Social work practice should both promote respect
  for human dignity and pursue social justice,
  through service to humanity, integrity and
  competence.

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Julia Phillipsons framework

• heightened (self and general) awareness
• plus
• developing knowledge
• plus
•  developing skills in challenging sexism
• leads to 
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• practising in gender aware and gender
  equality-enhancing ways
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Understanding our own experiences

• An exercise using gender
• as a case study

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• Write down a working definition for yourself of
  what femininity means for you by starting with
  the phrase When I think about femininity, it
  suggests to me that.
• With each image that comes up (numbered from 1 to
  10), mark it with a tick or a cross according to
  whether or not it meets your working definition
• Make comments for yourself as you go along

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• The terms femininity and masculinity refer to
  culturally and historically sets of ideas about
  what constitutes appropriate female and male
  behaviours.
• They are
• Socially constructed, at least in part
• Related to the dominant gender ideology of the
  time