Mutual Aid: A Contribution to Best-Practice Social Work |
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Authors: | Dominique Moyse Steinberg |
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Institution: | 1. Hunter College School of Social Work , New York, New York, USA dsteinb@hunter.cuny.edu |
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Abstract: | This keynote speech, delivered in French and translated to English with minor adjustments for publication, presents some of the author's ideas about mutual-aid practice as best-practice social work. The author discusses the etiology and centrality of mutual aid in social work with groups, presents five characteristics of mutual-aid practice that reflect best-practice social work and identifies four key characteristics—joy in sharing, faith, courage, and curiosity—of mutual-aid practitioners. Similarities between mutual-aid practice and evidence-based group work, practice evaluation and participatory-action research are discussed as well. The author presents group work as inherently evidence based and challenges the idea that subjective measures alone may not be valid in reaching this determination. |
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Keywords: | social work values anti-oppression social work social group work mutual aid mutual-aid practice evidence-based practice evidence-based group work best-practice group work strengths-based group work |
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