Critical Social Work - Practice Models

Practice Models

Some of the practice theories that critical social work utilises include:

• Working collectively
• Building cooperation and consciousness
• Helping people to understand the social consequences of the market system
• Helping people deal collectively with social problems rather than individualising them
• Making alliances with working class organisations and recognise social workers as ‘workers’ themselves
• Civil disobedience, such as the intentional and surreptitious violation of agency policies that perpetuate capitalist oppression