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Licensed social workers must adhere to a code of ethics set by the National Association of Social Workers. But this code is framed within the Eurocentric moral theories that dominate the conventional social work ethics curriculum, which exclude non-Western communities and pay insufficient attention to fighting oppressive power structures. Departing from traditional approaches, this book presents an anti-oppressive model to help social workers make ethical decisions that adhere to professional mandates while pursuing systemic social change.
Bibiana D. Koh guides readers through a social justice–centered framework for moral deliberation, understanding ethics as a transformative process that is grounded in challenging oppression. This model is built on five interrelated concepts: positionality, intersectionality, critical reflexivity, decentering, and power. Koh brings these concepts to life through vivid case studies of ethical dilemmas that illustrate how diverse social identity categories interact with systems of power, oppression, and domination and that demonstrate the value of an interdependent, community-based ethics. Written in accessible language, this book will help current and future social workers strengthen their ethical reasoning across all levels of practice and fight oppression together.
— Frederic G. Reamer, author of Social Work Values and Ethics
Anti-Oppressive Social Work Ethics engages with the question of how ethics can be embedded within practice in a way that upholds the elimination of racism and social isolation and supports equal opportunity and justice. Given current global movements, this is a timely and important book.
— Donna McAuliffe, coeditor of Social Work Theory and Ethics: Ideas in Practice
Anti-oppressive social work ethics calls on practitioners, students, educators, and scholars to pay special attention to how power is articulated in our practice. Timely and comprehensive, this book honors these social relationships and asks us to reimagine our practice in the context of those with whom we work.
— Dionisio Nyaga, coeditor of Critical Research Methodologies: Ethics and Responsibilities
Koh has taken social work ethics to the next level by linking them tightly with anti-oppressive theory and practice. This much-needed corrective to narrow, context-free, technical directives provides ways to think about and intervene in everyday social work ethical questions while simultaneously being active in the fight against oppression and for social justice. A must-read for students and practitioners alike.
— Donna Baines, University of British Columbia
This book bridges a critical gap in social work education by offering an accessible illustration of nondominant ethical and moral theories, models, and practices committed to anti-oppression. Aligned with critical pedagogy, its creative methods encourage students to critically assess and practice social work ethics. I am eager to integrate this text into my courses.
— M. Candace Christensen, University of Michigan School of Social Work.