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Anti-Oppressive Practice
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Anti-Oppressive Practice
Older Adults & Mental Health
Inviting Service Users to be Full Participants
Working WITH our Clients
- Allow clients to take control of their circumstances
- Allow any family, friends, or community members that the client would like to participate in the decision-making process
- Develop egalitarian relationships
- Sharing power with the client
- Treating them as experts of their own experiences
What is Oppression?
Anti-Oppressive Practice
Examples
Embracing Cultural Diversity
What is it?
- Unequal power dynamics
- Privilege vs. exclusion
- Silencing of others
- Control over others
- Sexism
- Racism
- Ageism
Person First Language
Key Features:
- Putting the individual before their disability or diagnosis
- Deconstructing professional language to ensure client understands
- Being aware of how language from the dominant culture can often be oppressive
- Refer to the client by their name rather than a "patient" or their diagnosis
- Avoid using terms such as "mental disorder" or "mental illness"
- Include the different cultural perspectives and strengths when working with clients
- Being willing to deviate away from traditional Western understandings of mental health and physical health
- Encourage the use of spiritual strategies or naturopathic medicine
- A set of values to guide professional practice
- A commitment to social justice and challenging social injustices
- Challenges mainstream ideas of professionalism
- Seeing ourselves as experts
- Making decisions on behalf of clients
- Recognize and challenge power imbalances
Promoting Principles of Social Justice
- Become partners with service users and their families in political action
- Actively purse changes in legislation and public policies that are oppressive
- Join anti-stigma campaigns
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