Anti-Oppressive Theory and Critical Social Work

ANTI-OPPRESSIVE THEORY AND CRITICAL
SOCIAL WORK

Critical social work and
theories
• The application of critical social work theories in a crucial social condition can
be referred to as critical social work. The critical theories suggest that social
problems are arising from the various types of oppression and injustices. The
social work theories arise from various schools of thoughts such as feminism ,
Marxism , social democracy , anti-racism and many others .
• The social work theories have nearly three phases of analysis. These are the
progressive position, the reproductive position and the contradictory position.
• The major focus of the critical social work includes poverty , social exclusion ,
racism , abuse , oppression crime and many others .

Anti-
oppressive
theory
• The Anti-oppressive theory first
recognizes the type of social
oppression in the communities ,
cultures and societies. Then it
tries to eradicate the pressures
to erase such oppression
(Mattsson, 2014).
• The anti-oppressive social works
and practices which adopt the
Social justice perspective solely
are more effective.