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Assessing 'empowerment' as social development: goal and process
Ist Teil von
European journal of social work, 2017-01, Vol.20 (1), p.88-100
Ort / Verlag
Oxford: Routledge
Erscheinungsjahr
2017
Link zum Volltext
Quelle
Taylor & Francis
Beschreibungen/Notizen
Empowerment is a concept widely used in several policy documents and is presented, in social work and social care professional universes, as an operative process to reduce vulnerability and to increase the power, or capabilities, of individuals and groups to make choices and to transform these into actions and results. However, to move beyond rhetoric and paternalistic practices, we need to understand what empowerment really means and implies in different contexts, and especially, how to evaluate what has changed (outcomes) or is changing (processes), both on an individual and a collective level.