Confronting Oppression, Restoring Justice: From Policy Analysis to Social Action (Advancing Social Work Education)

Van Wormer, Katherine S.

ISBN 10: 0872931064 / ISBN 13: 9780872931060

Published by Brand: CSWE Press, 2004

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Confronting Oppression, Restoring Justice: From Policy Analysis to Social Action (Advancing Social Work Education)
• Publisher: Brand: CSWE Press
• Publication Date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0872931064
• ISBN 13: 9780872931060
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: new

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Synopsis

Katherine van Wormer's Confronting Oppression, Restoring Justice examines the twin forces of oppression and injustice and how social policies, cultural institutions, and prevailing ideologies promote or sustain them. Using an internationally informed perspective, she unpacks concepts such as internalization of oppression, injustice, restorative justice, social exclusion, empowerment, and critical consciousness. Readers will find extensive discussion of the skills of critical analysis needed to confront oppression and injustice, backed up by examples of human services programs that successfully deploy strategies of empowerment.

About the Author

Katherine van Wormer is professor, University of Northern Iowa, where she teaches social work departments. Active in the civil rights and peace movements at home and in Northern Ireland, she has worked as an alcoholism counselor in Washington and Ohio, and for two years was program director for a treatment center in Norway.