III. Power, Privilege, & Oppression
3. Analyze power, privilege, and oppression within interpersonal and societal contexts and norms and how they influence the counseling process. (I-VI)
III. Power, privilege, and oppression
A. Definitions
- Counseling Process, The -
- Power -
- Privilege - What is privilege?
- Oppression -
B. Values
C. Biases
D. Beliefs/Assumptions
E. Power Structures and Systems
1. Group membership advantages and disadvantages
2. Access and control of resources
3. Social justice and advocacy
III. Power, Privilege, and Oppression
- A Social Worker's Reflections on Power, Privilege, and OppressionThe pursuit of social justice is a core social work value (NASW, 2007). Social workers promote social justice by engaging in activities that promote equality of opportunity, challenge injustice, and advance social change, particularly on behalf of vulnerable and oppressed populations.
- Constructing Critical Conversations in Social Work Supervision: Creating ChangeClinical social work supervision is not immune to enactments of racial and social injustice, prejudice, power and privilege
rampant in our social environment and institutions. - Explorations in Diversity: Examining the Complexities of Privilege, Discrimination, and OppressionEvery person comes to know and understand their life from their own perspective. As a result, it is often difficult and sometimes unbelievable to realize that others, whom one may or may not know, might also experience daily life in a vastly different way. Explorations in Diversity offers readers the opportunity to step into the lives of diverse others and experience their lives through their eyes.
- Undoing Privilege : Unearned Advantage in a Divided WorldUndoing Privilege explores the main sites of privilege, from Western dominance, class elitism, and white and patriarchal privilege to the less-examined sites of heterosexual and able-bodied privilege
- Walk the Talk of Power, Privilege, and Oppression: A Template Analysis.Social justice is a hallmark of social work practice. The call to end oppression and discrimination are voiced in the Grand Challenge, Achieve EqualOpportunity and Justice, the National Association of Social Work Code of Ethics preamble, and the Council on Social Work Education Educational Policy and Accreditation Standards.
- Between Privilege and Oppression: An Intersectional Analysis of Active Transportation Experiences Among Washington D.C. Area YouthA high percentage of public transportation users are from low (
III. A1 - Counseling Process,The
Defining the Counseling Process and Its Stages
"Counseling typically helps bring about change. The process begins with exploring the challenges a client faces before assisting them in resolving developmental and situational difficulties (Sajjad, 2017). The counselor supports clients with physical, emotional, and mental health issues, helping them resolve crises, reduce feelings of distress, and improve their sense of wellbeing (American Psychological Association, 2008). When successful, treatment can change how a client thinks, feels, and behaves regarding an upsetting experience or situation (Krishnan, n. d.)."
Defining the Counseling Process and Its Stages - Jeremy Sutton
III. A2 - Power - Understanding the Dimensions of Power
III. A3 - Privilege - What is Privilege?
Watch the YouTube video, What is privilege? Attend carefully to your emotional response to the separation of the participants along lines of privilege.
- Challenging privilege through Africentric social work practicePrivilege refers to the unearned advantages enjoyed by a particular group simply because of membership in that group. Privileges accrue to those who (consciously or not) oppress others and are generally invisible to those who enjoy them.
III. A4 - Oppression - What is Oppression?
- Power, Privilege, and Oppression in Counseling and Family Therapy“Oppression is defined in dictionaries as an unjust, harsh, or cruel exercise of power over another or others. From a psychosocial perspective, the term can be viewed more specifically in the context of abuse or similar mistreatment that leads to psychological distress or emotional pain and suffering.” (Hanna, 2000, p.431).
- The Power of Perception: Toward a Model of Cultural Oppression and LiberationAn exploratory transcultural model of counseling based on oppression is introduced with the goal of serving both oppressed and oppressive clients...
- The Psychology of OppressionThis book reviews the psychological theories and research on the topic of oppression – its evolution, its various forms, and its consequences. Painful historical examples and modern-day occurrences of oppression including mass incarceration,
- Internalized Oppression : The Psychology of Marginalized GroupsThis is the first book to highlight the universality of internalized oppression across marginalized groups in the United States from a mental health perspective. It focuses on the psychological manifestations and mental health implications of internalized oppression for a variety of groups. The book provides insight into the ways in which internalized oppression influences the thoughts, attitudes, feelings, and behaviors of the oppressed toward themselves, other members of their group, and members of the dominant group. It also considers promising clinical and community programs that are currently addressing internalized oppression among specific groups.
Graduate School of Social Work - DU
III. B - Values
- A social worker's reflections on power, privilege, and oppression.The pursuit of social justice is a core social work value (NASW, 2007). Social workers promote social justice by engaging in activities that promote equality of opportunity, challenge injustice, and advance social change, particularly on behalf of vulnerable and oppressed populations.
- Multicultural Competence in Counseling Research: The Cornerstone of ScholarshipThe profession of counseling values honoring diversity and promoting social justice. These core values pertain to all
aspects of the counseling profession, including the production of scholarship. Given that all research affects and is
affected by cultural dynamics, we posit that all research is multicultural research. - Social Work ValuesValues have several important attributes and perform several important functions: they are generalized, emotionally charged conceptions of what is desirable; historically created and derived from experience; shared by a population or a group within it; and provide the means for organizing and structuring patterns of behavior (R. Williams 1968, cited in Meinert 1980:6)
Social Work Values and Ethics by Call Number: eBookISBN: 9780231188289Publication Date: 2018-11-06For decades, teachers and practitioners have turned to Frederic G. Reamer's Social Work Values and Ethics as the leading introduction to ethical decision making, dilemmas, and professional conduct in practice. A case-driven, concise, and comprehensive textbook for undergraduate and graduate social work programs, this book surveys the most critical issues for social work practitioners.
III.C - Biases
- 3.3 The Social Self: The Role of the Social SituationSometimes, the influence of other people’s appraisals of ourselves on our self-concept may be so strong that we end up internalizing them. For example, we are often labeled in particular ways by others, perhaps informally in terms of our ethnic background, or more formally in terms of a physical or psychological diagnosis. The labeling bias occurs when we are labeled, and others’ views and expectations of us are affected by that labeling (Fox & Stinnett, 1996).