Case critical : social services & social justice in Canada /
Social services are in crisis. After numerous service cuts, many of its jobs are now short-term, part-time and non-unionized, prompting us to ask why is there not a greater public outcry for helping people in need? This book applies decolonized, critical analysis to highlight what is often hidden fr...
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Toronto :
Between the Lines,
[2017]
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| Edition: | Seventh edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- 1. Ntamkidwinan first words
- Welcome
- An Anishinaabe Elder's perspectives
- 2. Power, ideology, and social services
- Ongoing colonialism and its consequences
- Canadian apology for residential schools
- Indigenous child removal system and the "Sixties Scoop"
- Today's colonialism
- Individualism and privilege
- Progressive social work
- Naming and resisting injustices
- Colonial privilege
- Racism and privilege
- Class privilege
- Patriarchal privilege
- Heterosexual / cisgender privilege
- Ableism and privilege
- Social justice and social services
- Roots : early attitudes
- Early North American social welfare
- "Survival of the fittest" - Social Darwinism
- Social work : the beginnings
- Oppression and resistance
- Indigenous "assimilation" and resistance
- Inuit and Métis
- Early 1900s unrest
- Social programs and social injustices
- Resistance and progressive movement
- Neoliberal backlash
- Diverging schools of altruism
- Conflicts inside the social work curriculum
- Conventional : ecological-systems theory
- Anti-oppression perspectives
- The controversy about competency models
- From Aboriginal circiles in the classroom to Indigenizing social work
- Four principles of good practice
- Social workers : on the front line
- Where social workers work
- How people become social services users
- Hierarchies and the stratification of social services
- The challenge of social work
- The bottom line : managerialized social services
- Privitization of social services
- A challenge : this story must change
- Reality check : service users' experience
- Welfare "reform" : smoke and mirrors
- Different shades of social coercion
- Caring social services : take a deep bow
- Challenging feelings hopeless
- Social justice movements
- Labour unions and social work
- Dealing with challenges : tiny miracles
- Alternative social services
- An activist agenda by progressive social works
- Toward liberation
- Challenging multiple oppressions
- Themes for liberation in social work practice
- Indigenous healing and liberation
- Liberation and social services
- The pendulum of practice : a tool for assessing cultural competence
- Completing a cultural competence self-audit
- Competence matrix
- Supporting and actualizing transformation
- Nawây-pîkiskwêwina after words
- Can we go where we have never been?