The Empowerment Approach to Social Work Practice: Building the Beloved Community (Second Edition)

Judith A.B. Lee

Published by Rawat Publications, 2022

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Contents: 1. Dreaming Justice and the Beloved Community in the Twenty-First Century. 2. The Empowerment Approach: A Conceptual Framework. 3. Empowerment Method: The How-To. 4. Establishing Multifocal Vision: The History of Oppression. 5. Establishing Multifocal Vision: The Ecological Perspective and Coping. 6. Multifocal Vision: Developing Ethclass, Feminist, Cultural, Global and Critical Perspectives--One Clear Lens, Many Foci. 7. Making Beginnings in Individual and Family Empowerment: Processes and Practice Skills. 8. Assessment for Empowerment: Content and Process. 9. Working on Problems Together: The Empowerment of Individuals and Families. 10. Empowering Special Populations. 11. The Empowerment Group Approach. 12. Empowerment Groups: Working Together Toward Empowerment 13. Community and Political Empowerment Practice 14. Empowerment in Global Perspective: Social and Economic Justice for All. First published in 1994, this book was hailed as a cutting-edge, theory-driven report from the front-line trenches in the battle for social justice. Both clinical and community-oriented and written from a global perspective, it presents clients speaking for themselves alongside reports of prominent social work educators. This new edition puts greater emphasis on how-to skills in working with people toward their own empowerment and stresses multiculturalism. A new chapter identifies worldwide issues of oppression such as abuse of women and children and neglect of the mentally ill.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Empowerment Approach to Social Work Practice: Building the Beloved Community (Second Edition)
• Publisher: Rawat Publications
• Publication Date: 2022
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 2nd Edition
• Condition: New