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Social Work pp 3–22Cite as

Anti-oppressive practice in context

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Abstract

The role and purpose of social work has been hotly contested since its inception. The diverse answers which have been provided can be categorised as follows into roughly three types:

  • therapeutic helping approaches;

  • ‘maintenance’ approaches;

  • emancipatory approaches.

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Further reading

  • Braye, S. and Preston-Shoot, M. (1995) Empowering Practice in Social Care (Buckingham, Open University Press). This text is primarily about community care. However, it focuses on issues of empowerment and working in anti-oppressive ways within this context.

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  • Dalrymple, J. and Burke, B. (1995) Anti-oppressive Practice: Social Care and the Law (Buckingham, Open University Press). Although this book focuses largely on using the law as a tool for progressive practice, it threads the principles of anti-oppressive practice and the empowerment of service users throughout the discussion. Thus, it can be used by readers to deepen their knowledge and understanding of anti-oppressive practice in a particular area of practice.

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  • Dominelli, L. (1997) Sociology for Social Work (London, Macmillan). This text explores the theoretical underpinnings of anti-oppressive practice, examines the struggle over policy developments favouring its spread, provides case study examples of how anti-oppressive practice is used in holistic ways to address a range of different oppressions which exist in any one intervention and integrates theory and practice within it.

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  1. Lena Dominelli
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Editors and Affiliations

  1. University of Lincolnshire and Humberside, UK

    Robert Adams (Professor of Human Services Development) (Professor of Human Services Development)

  2. Department of Social Work Studies, University of Southampton, UK

    Lena Dominelli (Professor of Social and Community Development) (Professor of Social and Community Development)

  3. Manchester Metropolitan University, UK

    Malcolm Payne (Professor of Applied Community Studies) (Professor of Applied Community Studies)

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© 1998 Lena Dominelli

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Dominelli, L. (1998). Anti-oppressive practice in context. In: Adams, R., Dominelli, L., Payne, M., Campling, J. (eds) Social Work. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-14400-6_1

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