Anti-Oppressive Work

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culture of the Indigenous community, in order to integrate these values and beliefs into a comprehensive and progressive model of intervention (Hart, Sinclair & Bruyere, 2009, 135). Acting as an ally to this client, includes acknowledging the holistic and spiritual nature of his background, and comprehensively including this into the social work intervention, in order to restore the client’s positive relationship with the Indigenous community.
In this particular case, in order to comprehensively assist the client, I must take action to denounce racial discrimination, and make conscious steps with the client towards racial equality. As we have explored within this course, inaction in the face of racial inequality, maintains and inadvertently …show more content…

The goal of the social work relationship is to address the racial discrimination that the client has experienced. However, I believe that it is the duty of social workers to practice principles of social justice and anti-oppressive work, whenever faced with issues of oppression (Sakamoto, 2005). Therefore, using an anti-oppressive approach requires that the social service providers and organizations that discriminated against the client, be told the errors of their discriminatory ways, and how to properly and fairly allocate resources and services to clients. Therefore, this approach is deeply entrenched in principles of social justice, and inclusiveness, as this approach allows for the client to heal, and also for oppression within social service organizations to be …show more content…

As the social worker in this scenario, I must be fully aware of how my opinions and biases may affect how I view the social injustices committed against this client. As a racial minority, I empathize with this client, as he has faced forms of racial discrimination, that racialized groups are too often exposed to. By employing an anti-oppressive approach, and by acting as close ally in the fight towards racial equality, I am ensuring that he understands that I am here to comprehensively help him. Furthermore, using a strengths based approach allows for the client and I to mutually interact and share how racial inequality affects the day to day lives of racial minorities, and how best to combat the effects of this social injustice (Sakamoto,

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