Is there space for a ‘care-oriented’ advocacy in social work practice with people who have substance use problems
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6421075 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Zacharoula Kasseri (Hellenic Mediterranean University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 13 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 403-418 |
| Publication date | 2024-03-11 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Critical and Radical Social Work (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2049-8675 • E-ISSN: 2049-8608 |
| Publisher | Bristol University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1332/20498608y2024d000000019 |
| OpenAlex | W4392637637 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 48 |
Although advocacy is a valuable concept, it has received little attention in social work practice with people who have substance use problems. The tendencies of medicalisation and responsibilisation, as well as criminalisation and the War on Drugs ideology, create an unfavourable environment for the emergence of an advocacy discourse. Within the neoliberal context, advocacy in social work practice in the field of addiction is not only an overlooked but also an under-theorised issue. Using Tronto’s political ethics of care theory, the article argues that a perspective on advocacy that places care at the centre of its analysis might provide an illuminating framework for working with people who have substance use problems. Each of Tronto’s ethical elements of care, which are attentiveness, responsibility, competence, responsiveness and trust, can offer useful directions for advocacy practice in the field of substance use and addiction
Criminology · Political science · Psychiatry · Social space · Sociology · Substance use · Computer Science · Health Policy Implementation Science · Law · Mental Health and Patient Involvement · Psychology · Substance Abuse Treatment and Outcomes · Social Work
Coming Clean
Stigma, Discrimination, Treatment Effectiveness, and Policy
Responsibility without Blame for Addiction
Strategies used by people who inject drugs to avoid stigma in healthcare settings
War on Drugs Policing and Police Brutality
Harm reduction
Intersectionality and why it matters to global health
Justice and Care
Transgender Rights & the Urgent Need for Social Work Advocacy
Governing Citizens Through Self-Help Literature
How Structural Violence, Prohibition, and Stigma Have Paralyzed North American Responses to Opioid Overdose
Governmentality, Critical Scholarship, and the Medical Humanities
The war on drugs in Southeast Asia as ‘state vigilantism’
Drugs and drug wars as populist tropes in Asia
Understanding Advocacy for Children and Young People
Revisiting Medicalization
Social justice for all!’ The relative silence of social work in abortion rights advocacy
Greek social work and the never-ending crisis of the welfare state
Towards critical mental health social work
Ethics and Values in Social Work
Ethics of Care and Statutory Social Work in the UK
Streets of the ‘spice zombies’
Liquid advocacy
Forms of advocacy in social welfare work with homeless women
Discovering Addiction
Social Justice Advocacy in the Belly of the Beast
Peaceful Measures
Empowerment through Advocacy and Consciousness-Raising
Housing Problems and Social Work Advocacy in a Home-Owning Society
Criminalization Causes the Stigma”
Social Work and Advocacy with Young People
Advocacy for Black and Minority Ethnic Communities
Moral Sources and Emergent Ethical Theories in Social Work
Green Social Work
Neo-Liberalism and Responsibilisation in the Discourse of Social Service Workers
Rethinking Professional Practice
Take-Up Advocacy in Social Work Practice
Helping Older People in Residential Care Remain Full Citizens
Stigma, discrimination and the health of illicit drug users
Crack in Los Angeles
In a different voice
Human Rights Advocacy for Students with Disabilities
Viewing addiction as a brain disease promotes social injustice
Social Work Advocacy in Federal Immigration Courts
Social Workers as Potential Agents for Drug Policy Reform
Clinical Social Workers
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |