Critical Social Work

Critical social work is the application of social work from a critical theory perspective. Critical social work seeks to address social injustices, as opposed to focusing on individual people's problems. Critical theories explain social problems as arising from various forms of oppression. This theory is like all social work theories, in that it is made up of a polyglot of theories from across the humanities and sciences, borrowing from many different schools of thought, including marxism, social democracy and anarchism.

Read more about Critical Social Work:  Introduction, History, Focus of Critical Social Work, Sub-theories of Critical Social Work, Dialectic Explanations of Free Will, Practice Models

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