Empowerment Approach
ASSESSMET ONE- ESSAY MILENA TRALJIC
This assessment analyses the social work intervention process from the point of view of an empowerment approach. It outlines the ways in which the empowerment approach can be beneficial to social work clients and professional social workers. This assessment summarises and explains the empowerment approach and how social workers can empower themselves before helping empower their clients, as well as strategies to assist social workers and clients to take their own control and to build up their strengths. This assessment discusses empowerment as a strengths-based perspective that analyses, helps and supports the development of instinctive abilities and thinking in a positive manner. It also discusses how conceptual framework is used to research and outline the possible courses of action or to present a preferred approach to an idea or thought to help empower both clients and social workers. There are different ways to empower clients and this assessment will take account of the different ways to approach empowerment of women, people with disabilities, and people with mental health issues, and how empowerment can benefit the clients and social workers attitudes, relationships etc. Social workers need to be aware and practice methods for empowerment effectively to be able to believe in their client’s strengths, resources, abilities, and dreams. This will incorporate a client to learn to see themselves as others see them. Clients have not recognised their strengths and it is up to the social worker to empower them and help their clients recognise their own skills and name them.
Empowerment refers to increasing the spiritual, political, social, educational, gender, or economic strength of individuals and communities. There are many empowerment strategies but one empowerment strategy in particular is to assist marginalized people to create a process that enables individuals/groups to fully access personal/collective power,
This assessment analyses the social work intervention process from the point of view of an empowerment approach. It outlines the ways in which the empowerment approach can be beneficial to social work clients and professional social workers. This assessment summarises and explains the empowerment approach and how social workers can empower themselves before helping empower their clients, as well as strategies to assist social workers and clients to take their own control and to build up their strengths. This assessment discusses empowerment as a strengths-based perspective that analyses, helps and supports the development of instinctive abilities and thinking in a positive manner. It also discusses how conceptual framework is used to research and outline the possible courses of action or to present a preferred approach to an idea or thought to help empower both clients and social workers. There are different ways to empower clients and this assessment will take account of the different ways to approach empowerment of women, people with disabilities, and people with mental health issues, and how empowerment can benefit the clients and social workers attitudes, relationships etc. Social workers need to be aware and practice methods for empowerment effectively to be able to believe in their client’s strengths, resources, abilities, and dreams. This will incorporate a client to learn to see themselves as others see them. Clients have not recognised their strengths and it is up to the social worker to empower them and help their clients recognise their own skills and name them.
Empowerment refers to increasing the spiritual, political, social, educational, gender, or economic strength of individuals and communities. There are many empowerment strategies but one empowerment strategy in particular is to assist marginalized people to create a process that enables individuals/groups to fully access personal/collective power,