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Working in AOP framework

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Actively working to acknowledge and shift power towards inclusiveness, accessibility, equity and social justice
Ensuring that anti-oppression is embedded in everything that you do by examining attitudes and actions through the lens of access, equity and social justice
Being conscious and active in the process of learning and recognizing that the process as well as the product is important

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5 Principles of Practice

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  1. Critical Reflection on self in practice
  2. Critical Assessment of service users experience of oppression
  3. Empowering clients
  4. Work in Partnership
  5. Minimal Intervention
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Critical reflection on self in practice

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Social workers need to uphold an open and analytical viewpoint in practice
Understanding our social location and that of those around us begins to understand and address the power differential in our practise

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Critical assessment of service users experience of oppression

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Anti-oppressive practice requires workers to assess how personal, cultural and structural processes influence the problems that users present

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Empowering Clients

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Anti-oppressive practice seeks to overcome the cultural, institutional, structural and personal obstacles that service users face in trying to take control over their lives

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Work in Paternship

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Service users should be an active participant at all times in the decisions making that affects their lives

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Minimal Intervention

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Minimal interventions in an attempt to reduce the power imbalances that exist between service user and worker. Interventions should be least intrusive and oppressive as possible

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5 Direct Service Strategies

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  1. Assisting serve users to navigate systems
  2. Empowerment & Capacity Building
  3. Educating Other Service Providers
  4. Engaging Authentically
  5. Educating Service Users
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Assisting serve users to navigate problems

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Recognizing that many of the systems service users use every day can be problematic
Helping service users understand how systems function

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Empowerment & Capacity Building

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Helping service users develop the confidence and skill neccessary to negotiate systems for themselves

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Educating other service providers

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Sensitizing other service providers to the needs of sevice users

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Engaging Authentically

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Creating a safe space for service users
Working being present and interested in service users
The worker is fair, non judgmental, welcoming