The oppressive practices

The oppressive practices

The oppressive practices that the women go through will have implications for the social workers who work with them. In reflection of the Generalist Intervention Model (engagement, assessment, intervention, evaluation), key factors can be considered regarding women oppression effects on other social workers. In the intervention stage, the social worker will have a hard time when trying to mobilize resources and monitoring the client because the oppressed women issue is a normal norm in American history. It means that the action plan will not be implemented immediately. Regarding the evaluation stage, the social worker ability to monitor and determine the goal attainment will be paralyzed since tracking and reflecting women oppression cannot be defined easily. In the engagement and assessment stage, the ability to build rapport and trust as well as social worker’s aim of collecting data from the oppressed women will not be successful since the abused women have accepted the social norm of embracing men supremacy doing the act of engaging them to fail. Also, during the assessment period, the social workers will not work on a perspective that is strengths-based due to lack of enough information and the nature of the society that embraces sexism.

Strategies

In supporting culturally competent and anti-oppressive social work practice when working with oppressed women, plans should be placed. The first strategy is to engage stakeholders and educate people on the importance of recognizing that culture extends beyond gender. The women in American society have been discriminated regarding cultural competency. Thus the strategy of mobilizing people to embrace equality across gender with the help of other close stakeholders will result in omissions of the existing culture, which makes women inferior. Also, in doing this, the oppressive social work practices will have been discouraged since the strategy will focus on liberation and equality across gender. The second strategy is identifying cultural identity between genders and sees how psychiatry values apply. Despite Men and women being the same, self-analysis should be carried to determine the norm difference between them. Most of the men beliefs value individuality and independence, while women do not value them. Therefore, individual therapy effectiveness should be carried so that the women could not be underestimated. The strategy is aiming at making the women enjoy the norms they are used to instead of being forced to follow men’s cultural identity hence ending up being submissive to them. Also, the strategy will have solved the issue of oppressive practices since women will be culturally dependent. The third crucial strategy is stopping personal prejudices by putting strict measures on individuals who act in a brutal manner towards women. Stereotyping influences workers relationship with the service user. Therefore, this strategy will be crucial in stopping social workers from exploiting some groups of people like women and make them recognize cultural power equality in both genders.