Understanding Marginalized Communities, Code of Ethics

Question 1

What was 1990’s anti-oppressive theory?

Answer 1

Importance of considering in our assessment, issues related to race, ethnicity, gender, disability, sexual orientation, class, etc

Question 2

What is Anti-Oppressive Practice?

Answer 2

Anti-oppressive practices, like other forms of social justice oriented practice, are lenses for viewing the world, ways of asking questions and techniques for reaffirming social justice oriented social workers’ commitment to resist, expand resources to the oppressed, redistribute power and resist again in the new spaces and opportunities that open up as result of that resistance