Empowerment and oppression: An indissoluble pairing for contemporary social work

1 September 1991

journal article
Published by SAGE Publications in Critical Social Policy

Vol. 11 (32) , 21-30
https://doi.org/10.1177/026101839101103202

Abstract

The term 'empowerment' has taken on a cachet in social work practice paper links it firmly with the need to tackle oppression and shows that this which is not matched either by precision or clanty of definition. This value base stressing user-led action is present.

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