scholarly journals Creative Writing and Decolonizing Intersectional Feminist Critical Reflexivity: Challenging Neoliberal, Gendered, White, Colonial Practice Norms in the COVID-19 Pandemic

Affilia ◽  
2022 ◽  
pp. 088610992110663
Author(s):  
Christine Mayor ◽  
Shoshana Pollack
Keyword(s):  
Social Work ◽  
Creative Writing ◽  
Work Practice ◽  
Social Work Practice ◽  
Warning Label ◽  
Therapeutic Practice ◽  
Writing Prompts ◽  
Critical Reflexivity

Creative writing during the COVID-19 pandemic can serve as a decolonizing intersectional feminist method for critical self-reflexivity. We share responses to the prompt: “If my therapeutic practice came with a warning label in COVID-19, what would it say?” and provide an analysis of the neoliberalism, whiteness, and colonialism embedded in our creative writing and practice. Engaging in critical self-reflexivity through metaphor carries potential for revealing hidden gendered, racialized, colonial, and neoliberal biases and norms related to social work practice, particularly when done in a collaborative, dialogic manner. We conclude by providing possible creative writing prompts that might be used in social work practice, supervision, and teaching to advance existing practices of self-reflexivity in social work both during and beyond the pandemic.

scholarly journals Does grooming facilitate the development of Stockholm syndrome? The social work practice implications

2016 ◽  
Vol 28 (3) ◽  
pp. 47-56
Author(s):  
Shirley J. Jülich ◽  
Eileen B. Oak
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Abuse ◽  
Social Work ◽  
Child Sexual Abuse ◽  
Work Practice ◽  
Social Work Practice ◽  
Critical Reflexivity ◽  
The Social ◽  
Stockholm Syndrome ◽  
Actuarial Risk ◽  
The Relationship

INTRODUCTION: This article focuses on the problem of risk instrumentalism in social work and the way it can erode the relationship-based nature of practice and with it, the kinds of critical reflexivity required for remedial interventions to keep children safe.METHOD: By exploring the relationship between the process of grooming and the condition known as Stockholm syndrome, the article seeks to address this problem by offering some concepts to inform a critical understanding of case dynamics in the sexual abuse of children which can explain the reluctance of victim-survivors to disclose.FINDINGS: Beginning with an overview of the development of actuarial risk assessment (ARA) tools the article examines the grooming process in child sexual abuse contexts raising the question: “Is grooming a facilitator of Stockholm syndrome?” and seeks to answer it by examining the precursors and psychological responses that constitute both grooming and Stockholm syndrome.CONCLUSION: The article identifies the underlying concepts that enable an understanding of the dynamics of child sexual abuse, but also identifies the propensity of practitioners to be exposed to some of the features of Stockholm syndrome.

Postmodernism, Spirituality, and the Creative Writing Process: Implications for Social Work Practice

2001 ◽  
Vol 82 (1) ◽  
pp. 23-34 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thecla Damianakis
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Social Work ◽  
Creative Writing ◽  
Liberal Arts ◽  
Writing Process ◽  
Work Practice ◽  
Social Work Practice ◽  
Human Potential ◽  
Multiple Selves ◽  
The Social

Social work, as a profession, is struggling to determine the value of postmodernism and spirituality, and how these approaches to life provide alternative ways of interpreting the universe and the nature of social work practice. Although social work is founded on both a liberal arts and a social science education, some authors are challenging social work's historical emphasis on the social sciences; they advocate that social work instead reconsider the role of the humanities as a force affecting practice. While social work continues to root its practice in modernity, determinism, and the social sciences, the possibility should be considered that postmodernism, spirituality, and the creative writing process have the potential to expand social work to a more creative and meaningful kind of practice. By exploring the relationships between power and knowledge, pathology and creativity, core identity and multiple selves, it becomes clear that our subjectivity, our human potential, and our voices can facilitate very deep intuitive, creative, and transpersonal levels of communication between the social worker and the client.

Cultural Equity and the Displacement of Othering

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rhea Almeida
Keyword(s):  
Social Work ◽  
Cultural Competency ◽  
Social Equity ◽  
Work Practice ◽  
Social Work Practice ◽  
Coalition Building ◽  
Community Learning ◽  
Therapeutic Practice ◽  
Transformative Potential ◽  
Action Strategies

This article proposes social equity as a paradigm to guide social work practice and education. “Cultural equity” encompasses the multiplicity of personal, social, and institutional locations that frame identities in therapeutic practice as well as the classroom by locating these complexities within a societal matrix that shapes relationships of power, privilege, and oppression. Foregoing cultural competency for a cultural equity framework requires both analysis and interruption of the “otherizing” process inherited through multicultural discourses and the legacies of colonization. Through the use of education for critical consciousness, accountability through transparency, community-learning circles, progressive coalition-building, and usage of action strategies, transformative potential is revealed across multiple sites, both local as well as global. Multiple illustrations for the coherent application of cultural equity in social work practice and education are offered.

scholarly journals Online Social Work Practice: Issues and Guidelines for the Profession

10.18060/34 ◽  
2002 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 104-116 ◽  
Author(s):  
Goutham M. Menon ◽  
Julie Miller-Cribbs
Keyword(s):  
Social Work ◽  
Work Practice ◽  
Social Work Practice ◽  
Community Practice ◽  
Web Based ◽  
Therapeutic Practice ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Ict Tools ◽  
New Form ◽  
Online Web

There has been growth in the utilization of information and communication (ICT) tools in the field of social work in recent years.While most of the work has revolved around community practice, some social workers have moved into the realm of online, web-based therapeutic practice. This paper discusses important issues emerging from this new form of social work practice and concludes with suggested guidelines for the use of ICTs in social work practice.

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