Strengths And Weaknesses Of Social Work

Strengths and Limitations of Social Work Practice in Colombia: A View from Canadian Social Work
Introduction
Recently, I have been questioning my practice in order to know if my practice approaches are congruent with the theories, skills, and values used in the Canadian work context, as anti-oppressive practice is promoted consistently by Canadian social workers as a foundation for social work practice. Structural inequalities, discrimination, and oppression are issues of everyday life in Colombia, and as a practitioner, I always have identified these issues and understood the importance of reducing the disproportional rates of poverty, unemployment, and lack of education. However, understanding inequalities are not sufficient to transform

Operationalizing Anti-oppressive Approach: Strengths and Limitations
As a social worker, I have never interrogated my theoretical orientation, in part because I considered that common sense, agency´s directions, and social policies guided social work interventions. In fact, Mullaly (2010) discusses that social workers do not see the relation between theory and practice, and social work is perceived as a performance of practical duties. This was my perception until now, in particular, because I have been analyzing anti-oppressive principles and I realized that my experience has many nuances of those principles. Therefore, my past interventions have some commonalities with the anti-oppressive perspective, and then some strengths and limitations compared to the Canadian social work. (1) One of these strengths is empowerment. Power is an important element of

Therefore, the majority of Canadian social workers follow AOP guidelines, and my social work practice has been marked with some of those guidelines such as empowerment, collectivization and reducing sources of oppression. These strengths enable my experience in another country to be transferable to the Canadian work context, however some limitations such as lack of knowledge of social policies as an intrinsic element of social transformation, the need of implicating my social location in social work interventions, and the strict adherence to the agency rules and procedures place my practice for a necessity of updating and increasing social work knowledge. Thus, the congruency between my practice and Canadian social work is based on some commonalities and differences. These differences can be improved to be transferable to the Canadian