Social Justice in Clinical Practice by Dawn Belkin Martinez, ... - 9780415698962

Social Justice in Clinical PracticeA Liberation Health Framework for Social Work\nAuthor(s): Dawn Belkin Martinez, Ann Fleck-Henderson\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9780415698962, 978-0415698962\nSynopsis\nSocial work theory and ethics places social justice at its core and recognises that many clients from oppressed and marginalized communities frequently suffer greater forms and degrees of physical and mental illness. However, social justice work has all too often been conceptualized as a macro intervention, separate and distinct from clinical practice. \n\nThis practical text is designed to help social workers intervene around the impact of socio-political factors with their clients and integrate social justice into their clinical work. Based on past radical traditions, it introduces and applies a liberation health framework which merges clinical and macro work into a singular, unified way of working with indiv.