How do White privilege, White identity development and intersectionality support multiple types of knowledge?
What will be an ideal response?
Ans: White privilege, White identity development and intersectionality demand that as social workers, we do our own self-reflective work first in order to understand our place in society as members of a dominant group which has benefited from unearned privileges. This personal knowledge can then be drawn upon or used in our work with clients. These theories and/or concepts also support knowledge that is developed relationally and in dialogue with others. We have to ask and engage in ongoing dialogue with our clients as to their assessment of our capacities to engage meaningfully with them. Consequently, both the client’s voice and the social worker’s voice (developed through an ongoing process of critical self-reflection) are pivotal elements of knowledge.
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a. passive involvement by the federal government in social welfare b. no involvement by the federal government in social welfare c. secondary involvement by the federal government in social welfare d. active involvement by the federal government in social welfare e. reliance on the private sector for social welfare
Beck’s schemas
a) are dissimilar in breadth to Ellis’s irrational beliefs. b) represent the client’s plan to improve his life. c) become apparent as client and therapist identify themes. d) demonstrate that the child is father to the man.
The importance of making contact and establishing credibility with clients, according to the Satir model, can be established by:
A) using paradoxes in therapy. B) asking family members to rearrange themselves in the therapy room. C) sitting or standing at the same physical level so that eye contact is easy. D) asking the family to engage in an enactment.
Using pay differentials between men and women as an example, explain how critical theory can be used at two levels of practice.
What will be an ideal response?