2025年1月18日 · What Is Anti-Oppressive Practice in Social Work? At its core, anti-oppressive practice (AOP) in social work seeks to address and challenge the power imbalances that perpetuate oppression.

2024年10月5日 · Understanding Anti-Oppressive Practice in Social Work. At its core, social work and anti-oppressive practice focus on identifying and addressing power imbalances between social workers and their clients, as well as within the …

Anti-oppressive social work involves challenging and changing oppressive structures and practices inside and outside the social work profession. Social workers must engage in activism and advocacy to create social change and promote …

In an anti-oppressive social work practice approach, social workers help clients, communities and themselves to understand why they are oppressed and how to fight for change.

2023年3月18日 · In this chapter, it is argued that critical and anti-oppressive practice (AOP) theories provide a way to end participation in ‘horrible histories’ by firmly grounding social work practice in critical, social justice-based knowledges and theories.

Anti-Oppressive Practice centres the experiences of equity-deserving groups in order to build structures and systems that work for everyone.

This chapter explores how a theorised social work practice informed by anti-oppressive principles can be sensitively and effectively used to address the inequalities of oppression that determine the life chances of service users.

AOP is a participatory approach in which the person in a position of authority intentionally collaborates with people who are directly impacted by the work (The Office of Equity, Diversity, Inclusion, and Anti-racism, 2023).

Use this checklist to guide your actions and ensure anti-oppressive frameworks are efectively embedded in your daily social work practice. Regularly assess your own biases, privileges, and assumptions. Identify areas where your personal beliefs may influence professional decisions.

In this book we move from cultural competence to anti-oppression social work practice. Our main premise is that cultural competence, in addition to understanding and effective interaction with people across cultures, requires an understanding of how difference and labeling people as the “other” is used to reproduce structural inequities.