Empowerment

Part I of Essay
Stop blaming the victim: Look to change other aspects of the system Morgaine (1992) suggests that in this evaluation we must go beyond the "helper as preventer of social ills paradigm" in order to address the entrenched, complex needs of children and families. In a recent a ....

Part II of Essay
.... people and families in need. In such a practice model, an ecological view of problems has not been implemented. This often leads to attaching responsibility for a social problem to the person experiencing the difficulty. The social conditions which have contributed to this situation are ignored or minimized. Prevention programs have also been normatively driven, even though the rhetoric of prevention models claims an interest in cultural appropriateness, the appreciation of differences, and ecological influences. Empowerment has been sugg ....