Anti-Oppressive Social Work Practice

Anti-Oppressive Social Work Practice

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Anti-Oppressive Social Work Practice

Privilege offers benefits to the minority groupings. This privilege survives when a particular group is in possession of something valuable which is denied to other individuals, due to the group they are associated to, other than because of anything or actions they might have done, or they are planning to do. This document will discuss on the effects of the white privilege from both the dominating as well as the minority groups, traversing personality that affects people when it comes to ethnicity, sexual orientation and the manner social workers might utilise their skills to assist improving their work with the clients.

White privilege affects both the dorminating and the minority groups. The dominating group usually experience the positive and the adverse effects of the white right. As an example of the white privilege, Peggy McIntosh talks of how they go shopping freely without any worry or being followed; they can get home exclusive of feeling being out of the place or being outnumbered, and live in an environment surrounded by people of the similar colour. These being some of the positive benefits articulated by Peggy, there are nevertheless some adverse effects which dominate the group (McIntosh, 1990). It is evident; the dominating group is shown not realise the white privileges. On the side of the race, we are told it may set some other individuals to a disadvantage.

On the other hand, the minority’s encounters both the negative and the positive effects with the white privileges. A pessimistic impact of the white privilege holds on minority’s(Edwards, 2017). The minorities hold an experience of necessary adjustments. For instance, the Indians –Americans were being enforced to vacate from their land thus to reposition as the Japanese-Americans were residing on the west coast. The dominating group positive effects are what minority group cannot encounter positively.

There are some individual ’s who are not white encounters much prejudice in both the public and in their neighbourhoods. They might feel the pain to get to a store in a working place due to harassment, feeling out of place and also feeling out-numbered. Similarly, some other groups encounter positive effects, like the Asians who realises higher payments at sites of works as compared to the blacks. They have added advantages to living better lives and enjoyed better schools just like the whites community. But despite ethnicity, having well-educated guardians and trust in working hard, will always influence a kid (Joo et al. 2016).

The social worker is required to use their cultural power when dealing with clients of diverse cultural settings as well as intersecting personalities. Some of the artistic influences to realise are holding trust, respect, transformation and flexibility as well as being accountable. Also when working with these clients, they may come across circumstances they might not have experienced before, as they are dealing with personalities from diverse cultural settings.

As to the anti-oppressive practices, the social workers should utilise their skills to assist their clients(Curry-Stevens, 2018). As the social worker identifies the group personalities, they might expect that the clients, a family or the society, arrays of experiences which are related with either positive or negative life results. Some of the skills that would be of assistance when dealing with anti-oppressive practice are:- critical thinking, awareness and self-evaluation. This will assist us in realising the disparity and the similarities thus to rule out things accordingly.

In conclusion, the social workers when dealing with clients from various cultural backgrounds require to utilise their skills in critical thinking, self-evaluation as well to awareness. This will enable them to have a better assess to their clients when it comes to the anti-oppressive practices.

References

Curry-Stevens, A. (2018). Anti-Oppressive Practice – Social Work – Oxford Bibliographies -obo.

Edwards, J. F. (2017). Color-Blind Racial Attitudes: Macroaggressions in the Context of Racismand White Privilege. Administrative Issues Journal: Connecting Education, Practice, AndResearch, 7(1), 5

Joo, N., Reeves, R. V., & Rodrigue, E. (2016). Asian-American Success and the pitfalls of generalization. The Brookings Institute.

McIntosh, P. (1990). White privilege: Unpacking the invisible knapsack. Independent School, 49 31.