Titre du document / Document title
Clientilism and clientification : Impediments to strengths based social work practice = Clientélisme et clientification : les obstacles à la pratique du travail social fondé sur la force
Auteur(s) / Author(s)
COWGER C. D. (1) ;
Affiliation(s) du ou des auteurs / Author(s) Affiliation(s)
(1) University of Missouri, Columbia School of Social Work, ETATS-UNIS
Résumé / Abstract
A strengths-based practice perspective is, at best, weak and, perhaps, irrelevant in social service structures that are powered by social control values, driven by the market economy, and protected by professional self interests. This paper proposes that the relationship between the patron and the client, as expressed by the metaphor clientelism in the development literature, and clientification, as described by J. Habermas, are informative as significant obstacles to the implementation of strengths-based social work practice and social service delivery. The paper argues that for strengths-based practice to be viable, it and its advocates must confront more fundamental change by becoming more policy focused and implementing action strategies to overcome fundamental barriers while generating empirical evidence of its efficacy
Revue / Journal Title
Journal of sociology and social welfare
ISSN
0191-5096
Source / Source
1998, vol. 25, n
o1, pp. 25-37 (2 p.1/4)
Langue / Language
Anglais
Editeur / Publisher
Werstern Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI, ETATS-UNIS
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Localisation / Location
INIST-CNRS, Cote INIST : 22316, 35400007523021.0020
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