About the Book

First published in 1994, this book was hailed as a cutting-edge, theory-driven report from the front-line trenches in the battle for social justice. Both clinical and community-oriented and written from a global perspective, it presents clients speaking for themselves alongside reports of prominent social work educators. This new edition puts greater emphasis on ‘how-to’ skills in working with people toward their own empowerment and stresses multiculturalism. A new chapter identifies worldwide issues of oppression such as abuse of women and children and neglect of the mentally ill.

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Contents

1. Dreaming Justice and the Beloved Community in the Twenty-First Century

2. The Empowerment Approach: A Conceptual Framework

3. Empowerment Method: The How-To

4. Establishing Multifocal Vision: The History of Oppression

5. Establishing Multifocal Vision: The Ecological Perspective and Coping

6. Multifocal Vision: Developing Ethclass, Feminist, Cultural, Global, and Critical Perspectives--One Clear Lens, Many Foci

7. Making Beginnings in Individual and Family Empowerment: Processes and Practice Skills

8. Assessment for Empowerment: Content and Process

9. Working on Problems Together: The Empowerment of Individuals and Families

10. Empowering Special Populations

11. The Empowerment Group Approach

12. Empowerment Groups: Working Together Toward Empowerment

13. Community and Political Empowerment Practice

14. Empowerment in Global Perspective: Social and Economic Justice for All

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About the Author / Editor

Judith A.B. Lee is Professor of Social Work at Florida Gulf Coast University and Professor Emerita of the University of Connecticut. She is the author of many publications, including Walk a Mile in My Shoes.

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