Medical Approach In Social Work

Social workers are supposed to be there to practice an anti-oppressive framework, but most of the time social workers use a medical model and view an impairment as a serve limitation that impacts a person’s life dramatically. They are taught through many different theories on how to engage with clients who are every day people, social workers are the one who are alleged to provide services and assistants to individuals in need or struggle with a crisis situations. Unfortunately, that is not the case with persons who have a disability. Instead of viewing disability as an undistinguishable connection to both societal and governmental problems, the medical model approach says that a disabled person is the problem and they need repairing (Hiranandani, 2005). That indicated, if disability education was taught more within a social work context, and not seen as the problem there would be less stigmatization, and more resources that could provided.
As social workers, we are always told that before we can help others we need to recognize our social location, as this might make things harder when we go into new situations as that may hinder our ability to help individuals who are oppressed and marginalized. In addition, we need to address our own privilege and understand
They do not take into consideration that there are several non-visible disabilities, and those individuals who have non-visible impairments or disabilities are still oppressed and are always trying to prove to social workers and others in the community service field that they do have this disability. They are required to get a psychoeducational assessment done to establish that they have an intellectual disability to get services that should be offered no matter if you have the evaluation done or