Document Title: Radical model of social work and its relevance

Paper code: 13020

Radical model of social work and its relevance

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Radical model of social work in practice can be seen as attempt to change system to fit to service user rather than change service user to fit the system. It is important to acknowledge that even if theory seems to match to a service user, it does not always mean that this is the right understanding of service users life.

Radical social work is a broad approach that connects theory and practice. It is an important analytical tool which helps us work on present situations, while retaining a focus on the structural issues that affect our cases.

In this sense, radical social workers borrow various methodological techniques such us group work, arts-based interventions, advocacy, awareness raising and social action. In radical social work the use of diverse, creative skills is a means to an end, not an end in itself.

The objective is to use social work skills and knowledge in order to support the victims of an unequal system but also create the conditions that will lead to the creation of a socially just society.