Critical Empowerment Frameworks Paramount to Social Justice Work
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2501598 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Maria J Ferrera (0000-0002-7064-6523, DePaul University, corresponding author), Sonya Crabtree-Nelson, Sonya Crabtree‐Nelson (0000-0001-6898-5609) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 22 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 436-453 |
| Publication date | 2022-11-08 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Advances in Social Work (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1527-8565 • E-ISSN: 2331-4125 |
| Publisher | IUPUI University Library (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.18060/24965 |
| OpenAlex | W4308649815 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 24 |
As we continue to navigate the complex challenges of a pandemic and the urgent need for racial justice, social work faculty are well positioned to train the next generation of social workers in human rights work and structural change movements. Authors discuss how engaging key critical empowerment frameworks that include critical race theory, structural competency, together with a decolonizing and transdisciplinary lens within community-engaged research and practice can provide social work students models for collective impact. Leveraging university-community partnerships to directly provide faculty mentorship around human rights work will also be discussed. One author has been working with the institution's law school and their Neighborhood Legal Assistance Project to provide support, legal resources, and advocacy. She has also co-founded and is developing a Chicago-based coalition to address intimate partner violence-induced brain injury. The second author has helped start and develop two coalitions to advance a coordinated structural response involving the provision of mental health resource support and psychosocial forensic asylum assessments within immigrant communities. Authors also discuss how students have been engaged in health equity work through a racial and healing justice initiative that values and provides training around healing circles within indigenous communities and communities of color. Through these rich learning experiences, students internalize the value of critical empowerment frameworks that inform participatory approaches in collaboration and coalition building that are essential to social justice work and the process of social and structural change
Empowerment · Human rights · Mental health · Mentorship · Political science · Politics · Public relations · Sociology · Structural inequality · Law · Psychology · Social Work Education and Practice · Social Work
Feminist Accountability
Inequalities in Life Expectancy Among US Counties, 1980 to 2014
The Political Logic of the Non-Profit Industrial Complex
Introduction
Who's Afraid of Critical Race Theory?
Transdisciplinarity
Aboriginal Social Work Education in Canada
Preparing Our Next-Generation Scientific Workforce to Address the Grand Challenges for Social Work
Social-Justice Activism in the Academic Industrial Complex
The Case for Restorative Justice
Don’t “Just Call the Social Worker”
Measuring Rights-Based Practice
Social Work and Social Reform
Who Is the “Self” in Self‐Aware
Exploring the history of social work as a human rights profession
Practicing Human Rights in Social Work
Structural competency
A randomized controlled trial of restorative justice-informed treatment for domestic violence crimes
Using a structural competency framework to teach structural racism in pre-health education
The potential of transdisciplinary research for sustaining and extending linkages between the health and social sciences
Violence, Peace, and Peace Research
Decolonizing Methodologies
Healing history? Aboriginal healing, historical trauma, and personal responsibility
An Anthropology of Structural Violence
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2026 - 2026 (1) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |