The Empowerment Approach to Social Work Practice

By Judith A.B. Lee

Book Overview

Demonstrates how social workers can use an empowerment approach when dealing with those who have experienced oppression by virtue of poverty, colour, gender, sex or race. The reader is shown how the oppressed can learn to attain goals both individually and within the wider social environment.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231080263
• ISBN13: 9780231080262
• Release Date: January 1994
• Publisher: Columbia Univ Pr
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.3" x 1.0" x 6.2"

Customer Reviews

A Triumph!

This,the second edition, is one of the best practice books in social work to come out in a long time. Using a multifocal vision, this book spells out the principles of empowerment as a method. This is the kind of book that makes you want to know the author personally because of the human touch that is provided; this book is very readable too.The subtitle--Building the Beloved--speaks for itself. I appreciated the up-to-date references and statistics.An excellent reference book for instructors and social workers interested in the empowerment approach.