scholarly journals Medical model - biomedical discourse upon social work

Kontakt ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 177-184
Author(s):  
Jana Levická
Keyword(s):  
Social Work ◽  
Medical Model ◽  
Biomedical Discourse

scholarly journals Centering Social Justice in Mental Health Practice: Epistemic Justice and Social Work Practice

2021 ◽  
pp. 104973152110109
Author(s):  
Marjorie Johnstone
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Social Justice ◽  
Social Work ◽  
Lived Experience ◽  
Medical Model ◽  
Work Practice ◽  
Social Work Practice ◽  
Policy Advocacy ◽  
Health Practice ◽  
Epistemic Justice

This article examines how mental health social work practice can move outside the hegemony of the medical model using approaches that honor the centering of social justice. By using the philosophical analysis of epistemic injustice and the ethics of knowing, I move out of the traditional psychiatric and psychological conceptual frameworks and discuss new guiding principles for practice. In the context of the radical tradition in social work and the impetus to blend theory with practice, I consider the use of narrative and anti-oppressive approaches to center social justice principles in individual dyadic work as well as in wider systems family and community work and policy advocacy. I evaluate these approaches through the principles of epistemic justice and discuss the importance of a relational collaborative approach where honoring the client and exploring lived experience are central to both the concepts of testimonial justice, hermeneutic justice and anti-oppressive practice.

The Systems Approach in American Social Work

1985 ◽  
Vol 66 (8) ◽  
pp. 490-497 ◽  
Author(s):  
Genevieve De Hoyos ◽  
Claigh Jensen
Keyword(s):  
Social Work ◽  
Social Workers ◽  
Systems Approach ◽  
Medical Model

The authors find that social workers today assess their clients traditionally, but are eclectic in their choice of interventions, extending the medical model to include the person-in-situation approach or applying whatever theory works. Three major systems theories are reviewed.

Disability as Disjuncture: A Theory to Guide Social Work Practice

2015 ◽  
Vol 4 (1and2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Elizabeth DePoy ◽  
Stephen Gilson
Keyword(s):  
Social Work ◽  
Medical Model ◽  
Work Practice ◽  
Social Work Practice ◽  
The Body ◽  
Social Model ◽  
The Social ◽  
Full Participation ◽  
Medical Model Of Disability ◽  
Negative Stereotyping

Over the past several decades, disability and social work have become increasingly strange bedfellows, in large part due to the espousal of the medical model of disability on the part of social workers. This approach locates disability with the body as a deficit in need of repair, revision, or ongoing professional scrutiny. In opposition to this approach, disability scholars proposed the social model, which holds negative stereotyping and oppression as disabling factors, thereby creating a binary debate on cause and appropriate response to disability. We suggest that this binary is not useful in guiding social work to consider disability as a complex phenomenon, which requires multifaceted action responses. We therefore propose disability as disjuncture. This interactive model synthesizes a wealth of interdisciplinary fields to inform social work analysis and response to disability that meets the goals of advancing individual function, locating disability within a broad diversity dialog, and thus promoting equivalence of rights, choice, and opportunity for full participation for those who fit within the disability category. We conclude with exemplars of the thinking and action processes, guided by disjuncture theory, that illustrate the potency of this framework and its guiding properties for progressive social work disability practice.

Biculturalism in Social Work Practice

2019 ◽  
pp. 375-385
Author(s):  
Elias Paul Martis
Keyword(s):  
Social Work ◽  
Social Work Education ◽  
Medical Model ◽  
Work Practice ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Social Work Practice ◽  
Social Dimensions ◽  
Knowledge And Practice ◽  
Helping Process ◽  
Work Education

Social work education and practice has primarily been dominated by a medical model worldview. Traditional social work frameworks and medical models have focused on deficits or psychopathology and limited wellness to bio-psycho-social dimensions. In 2005, Te Wānanga o Aotearoa (TWOA) introduced a social work degree that incorporates Māori holistic models of well-being and practice. The degree was further developed into a four-year degree in 2016. This chapter looks at the contribution made by this bicultural social work degree to social work education and practice. This innovative and bold initiative by TWOA accords privilege to Māori and other indigenous bodies of knowledge and practice frameworks equal to those of western theories and frameworks. The bicultural degree argues that an indigenous approach to social work education and practice frameworks are not in competition or antithesis to western frameworks but are complementary and complete the helping process.

Lessons for social work from the medical model: a viewpoint for practice

Social Work ◽  
1982 ◽  
Vol 27 (4) ◽  
pp. 315-321 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rosalie A. Kane
Keyword(s):  
Social Work ◽  
Medical Model

Toward an Integrated Approach to the Institutionalized Aged: An Encounter with the Medical Model

1979 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 71-81
Author(s):  
Lawrence Breslau
Keyword(s):  
Social Work ◽  
Patient Care ◽  
Medical Model ◽  
Integrated Approach ◽  
Small Unit ◽  
Medical Standards ◽  
Individual Care ◽  
Therapeutic Attitude ◽  
Individual Needs ◽  
New Facility

The author describes the delivery of medical, psychiatric and social work services to residents of a facility for the aged. Although the Home had already benefited from the introduction of sound medical standards and the influence of an acute medical hospital, a satisfactory staff organization needed to be developed to answer the unique and individual needs of the aged residents. Specifically, the task was aimed at organizing services to implement a small unit concept of individual care for which the new facility was architecturally designed, to bring together those involved in patient care to coordinate services, to help the staff sustain a therapeutic attitude and to carry out specific therapeutic tasks.

scholarly journals Social work in health – The way ahead

2016 ◽  
Vol 25 (4) ◽  
pp. 85-88
Author(s):  
Gregory Winkelmann
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Social Work ◽  
Social Workers ◽  
Medical Model ◽  
Holistic Approach ◽  
Physical And Mental Health ◽  
Opinion Piece ◽  
The Way

In this opinion piece the challenges facing social workers working in the physical and mental health fields are outlined. These challenges include the growing emphasis on the more holistic approach to treatment that is gaining emphasis with the waning of the medical model, the application of te Tiriti o Waitangi to how we practise and the integration of bi-culturalism and multiculturalism into practice, and a greater emphasis on recovery and empowerment. The piece goes on to suggest how these challenges can be faced using an evidence-informed practice and interventions in a culturally and Treaty-responsive pathway.

scholarly journals Fat chat : an exploration of obesity discourses in Canadian media and their impacts on social work

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Samantha Abel
Keyword(s):  
Social Work ◽  
Social Control ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Social Workers ◽  
Power Relations ◽  
Medical Model ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Major Research ◽  
Social Work Practitioners ◽  
Mother Blame

This Major Research Paper conducted a critical discourse analysis of Canadian Press articles focused on obesity. This research sought to understand how the articles constructed obesity, what discourses were operating, and what power relations were at play. The three main discourses that shaped the articles were mother blame, the medical model, and economics. They became evident through photographs, language used, gendered power relations, medicalized understandings of health and solutions to obesity, and who was profiting or benefitting from these understandings and solutions. Social work practitioners and educators need to consider these discourses when conceptualizing obesity, and strive to contextualize individual experiences of fatness within broader structural and systemic power relations. Social workers also need to be cautious about reproducing oppressive anti-obesity practices, social work is a profession that has historically been an agent of social control and discipline.

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