Empowerment
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Stop blaming the victim: Look to change other aspects of the system
Morgaine (1992) suggests that in this evaluation we must go beyond the
"helper as preventer of social ills paradigm" in order to address the
entrenched, complex needs of children and families. In a recent article,
she argues that p ....
Middle of paper
.... which characterize
professionals taking on parent roles in their efforts to help people and
families in need. In such a practice model, an ecological view of problems
has not been implemented. This often leads to attaching responsibility for
a social problem to the person experiencing the difficulty. The social
conditions which have contributed to this situation are ignored or
minimized. Prevention programs have also been normatively driven, even
though the rhetoric of prevention models claim ....
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