POWER, PRIVILEGE, AND SOCIAL WORK

Review the Learning Resources on power, privilege, and oppression. Focus on the Hays chapter, which describes the original ADDRESSING framework. Complete the ADDRESSING-GSA Self-Assessment in the Learning Resources. by day 3 Post a reflection on the ADDRESSING-GSA Self-Assessment and apply what you learned to social work practice. Specifically, answer the following questions: What insights did you gain from the activity in terms of your identities and aspects of power and privilege? In what ways do you envision your diverse identities and associated power, privilege, or oppression influencing the social workerclient relationship? Provide an example. Required Readings Marsiglia, F. F., Kulis, S. S., & Lechuga-Pea, S. (2021). Diversity, oppression, and change: Culturally grounded social work (3rd ed.). Oxford University Press. Chapter 2, Cultural Diversity, Oppression, and Action: A Culturally Grounded Paradigm (pp. 2945) Chapter 3, The Intersectionality of Race and Ethnicity With Other Factors (pp. 4664) Read the Intersectionality section only. Harvard University Project Implicit. (2011). Project implicit social attitudes. Hays, P. A. (2016). The new reality: Diversity and complexity. In Addressing cultural complexities in practice: Assessment, diagnosis, and therapy (3rd ed., pp. 314). American Psychological Association. In many societies, power and privilege are based on ones membership in a dominant or non-dominant group. It is not a matter, though, of either having privilege or not. The dominant group varies based on the dimension of diversity. For example, you could experience privilege as Caucasian but oppression and otherness as a gay person. Social workers often work with clients who are perceived as others. Otherness often leads to marginalization and barriers promoted by society and social institutions. As you begin your work with clients, consider not only the individual (micro) concerns brought to the session but also the environmental or macro factors that may have either created or perpetuated the concern. You can empower your clients by helping them identify and define the oppression they have experienced throughout their lifetime. For this Discussion, you use the ADDRESSING-GSA framework to explore your own diverse identities and your membership in dominant or non-dominant groups. You then examine how these identities might influence your relationship with clients. resources